Higher education is facing a perfect storm as it contends with changing demographics, shrinking budgets and concerns about access and cost, while underrepresented groups – both in faculty ranks and students – are voicing dissatisfaction with campus climate and demanding changes to structural inequities.This book argues that, to address the inexorable changes ahead, colleges and universities need both to centralize the value of diversity and inclusion and employ a set of strategies that are enacted at all levels of their institutions. It argues that individual and institutional change efforts can only be achieved by implementing “diversity as a value” – that is embracing social change efforts as central and additive rather than episodic and required – and provides the research and theoretical frameworks to support this approach, as well as tools and examples of practice that accomplish change.The contributors to this book identify the elements that drive successful multicultural initiatives and that strengthen the effectiveness of campus efforts to dismantle systemic oppression, as well as the individual and organization skills needed to manage difference effectively. Among these is developing the capacity of administrators, faculty and student affairs professionals as conscious scholar practitioners to sensitively manage conflicts on campus, deconstruct challenging structures and reconstruct the environment intentionally to include in respectful ways experiences of historically marginalized groups and non-dominant ways of being in the world. The books’ focus on developing capacities for multicultural competence aligns with higher education’s increasing emphasis on civic engagement and institutional goals promote skills to interact in meaningful and responsible ways around difference, whether of people, ideas or identities.Designing Transformative Multicultural Initiatives provides guiding principles and practical strategies to successfully transform higher education to become fully inclusive and advance the success of all constituents and stakeholders.
Author(s): Sherry K. Watt
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 276
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Guiding Principles for Transformative Multicultural Initiatives: What are some useful guiding principles that help conscious scholar practitioners design transformative multicultural initiatives?
Chapter 1: Multicultural Initiatives as a Practice of Freedom
Chapter 2: Authentic, Action-Oriented, Framing for Environmental Shifts (Aafes) Method
Chapter 3: Privileged Identity Exploration (Pie) Model Revisited: Strengthening Skills for Engaging Difference
Part Two: Designing Multicultural Initiatives: Effective Strategies: What techniques do conscious scholar practitioners use to develop a multicultural initiative that will lead to a successful outcome?
Chapter 4: Multicultural Initiatives as Bridges: Structures Necessary for Successful Facilitation
Chapter 5: In Pursuit of a Strong, Clear Vision: Initiating and Sustaining Multicultural Change in Higher Education Organizations
Chapter 6: Sharing Power and Privilege Through the Scholarly Practice of Assessment
Part Three: Scholarly Examples of Multicultural Initiatives in Teaching, Higher Education Administration, and Student Affairs Practice: What are examples of the varying types of multicultural initiatives in higher education and student affairs?
Chapter 7: Teaching Contemporary Leadership: Advancing Students’ Capacities to Engage With Difference
Chapter 8: Aligning Actions with Core Values: Reflections of a Chief Diversity Officer and National Science Foundation ADVANCE Director on Advancing Faculty Diversity
Chapter 9: Creating Inclusive Organizations: One Student Affairs Division’s Efforts to Create Sustainable, Systemic Change
Chapter 10: Dialogue Matters: Applying Critical Race Theory to Conversations About Race
Chapter 11: Confronting Systems of Privilege and Power in the Classroom: Uses of Power
Chapter 12: The Transformational Potential of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs Partnerships for Enacting Multicultural Initiatives
Part Four: Conscious Scholar Practitioners’ Reflections an Identity, Power, and Privilege: How do conscious scholar practitioners face the challenges within the convergence of identity, power, and privilege that are inherent to multicultural initiatives and campus organizational change?
Chapter 13: Politics of Intersecting Identities
Chapter 14: Toxic Environments: Perseverance in the Face of Resistance
Chapter 15: Facing the Proverbial Lion of Racism
Chapter 16: The Art of Reflective Teaching
Chapter 17: Daring Greatly: A Reflective Critique of the Authentic, Action- Oriented, Framing for Environmental Shifts (AAFES) Method
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
