Occupying the Academy
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Occupying the Academy

Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?

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eBook - ePub

Occupying the Academy

Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?

About this book

In the wake of the election of President Obama, many diversity scholars and practitioners imagined that renewed commitments to educational equity and justice were just around the corner. Unfortunately, the opposite has become the Obama-era reality. Across the country, equity and diversity workers at all levels in university and colleges, but especially Chief Diversity Officers in public institutions, are under assault. Is this assault a result of a pre-meditated and carefully calculated conservative political agenda or the unfortunate consequence of how largely white, politically conservative—and the power bases they represent—are expressing their anger about the changing racial landscape in the United States? This volume explores and deconstructs the reasons for this assault from various perspectives. This volume also illustrates how the national assault on equity and diversity has resulted in a continuum. At one end are "diversity-friendly" institutions that are benignly neglecting equity/diversity efforts because of state budget crises. At the other end of the spectrum are the deliberate efforts being made to systematically dismantle equity and diversity work in especially politically conservative states.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Foreword
  4. The Permanence of Diversity
  5. La Permanencia de la Diversidad
  6. Occupying Academia, Reaffirming Diversity
  7. Stories from the Chief Diversity Officer Frontlines
  8. Case 1: Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
  9. Case 2: Balancing Act
  10. Case 3: Deconstructing Hope
  11. Case 4: Transforming Lives and Communities
  12. Case 5: Southern Predominantly White Institutions, Targeted Students, and the Intersectionality of Identity
  13. Stories from the Mid-Level Administrator Frontlines
  14. Case 6: The Myth of Institutionalizing Diversity
  15. Case 7: Swimming up Mainstream
  16. Case 8: The Search for Questions and Tellings of Silenced Students
  17. Case 9: The Evolution of a Campus
  18. Case 10: The Unmet Promise
  19. Stories from the Faculty Frontlines
  20. Case 11: “Just (Don’t) Do It!”
  21. Case 12: Déjà Vu
  22. Case 13: “Isn’t Affirmative Action Illegal?”
  23. Case 14: Equity at the Fringes
  24. Case 15: On the Battlefield for Social Justice in the Education of Teachers
  25. So What? Who Cares? And What’s Our Point about Diversity?
  26. Carta al lector
  27. An Open Letter
  28. Afterword
  29. References
  30. About the Editors and Contributors