This book introduces the concept and practices of Total Inclusivity to universities around the world. It is written to help universities contend with increasing public scrutiny and uncertainty around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice now at the forefront of global higher education.
Providing a guide and template to higher education leaders, the book addresses such issues as work culture, free speech, student wellbeing, racism, LGBT+ identities, managerialism or ‘simply’ the ability of the institution to survive post-Covid. Whitehead and O’Connor argue that handling these issues can best be done in a university climate and system which is Totally Inclusive. This is the standard for any higher education institution to aim for, not only in its teaching but in its fundamental principles and everyday practices if it is to meet its obligations to its members and to wider society.
The book aims to support universities as well as challenge the status quo as they grapple with the different global and societal pressures confronting them. It is an essential read for anyone working in leadership in higher education institutions and those interested in creating inclusive practices within their institution.
Author(s): Stephen Whitehead, Pat O'Connor
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 230
City: London
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter One: Introducing Total Inclusivity
Defining total inclusivity
Total inclusive philosophy
Total Inclusivity and universities
Solving problems?
So, who are we?
Pat: ‘A mere woman…’
Stephen: a late starter
The structure
Part One : How inclusive are universities?
Part Two : You and ‘your’ university
Part Three : What next for universities?
Notes
Part One: How Inclusive are Universities?
Chapter Two: Who Cares about Total Inclusivity?
Introduction
What are institutions of higher education for?
What do stakeholders see as the purpose of higher education?
The impact of neo-liberalism: the market as a key stakeholder
Is higher education not diverse today?
Possible levers to promote a TI agenda?
Summary
Chapter Three: Academic Staff: How Inclusive do Universities Look?
Introduction
Higher education: gendered organisations
The evidence: gendered segregation in higher education
An alternative conceptualisation…
Summary and conclusions
Chapter Four: How does Non-inclusion Work?: Key Mechanisms and Processes
Introduction
Processes involving violence and harassment of women and other ‘outsiders’
Processes that reinforce the inclusion and privileging of the ‘insiders’
Summary
Chapter Five: How are Universities Responding to the Big Challenge?
Introduction
Institutionalised resistance
There is no problem: The nature and importance of legitimating discourses
Other manifestations of institutionalised resistance
Initiatives to tackle inequality
Athena SWAN (AS)
Gender Equality Plans (GEPs)
Summary and conclusions
Chapter Six: Leadership, Whiteness and Masculinism
Introduction
The attractiveness of the concept of leadership
Leadership and power
Who accesses leadership positions in higher education?
Typology of leadership in higher education
Summary
Part Two: You and ‘Your’ University
Chapter Seven: The Politics of Belonging
Identity
Belonging
Intersectionality
‘Others’
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter Eight: An International Learning Community?
Internationalised HE
What type of internationalisation?
Female internationalisation of HE
Tortoises on steroids
Contented communities of HE learning?
Identity politics
Collaboration?
Free higher education
Chapter Nine: Privilege
Ivory towers?
Unearned privilege
A story of privilege – Earned and unearned
What to do about it?
Unconscious bias
How to respond?
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter Ten: ‘Free’ Speech?
Introduction
Positions
Your standpoint?
A febrile climate
Can speech ever be free?
Totally inclusive speech
Trans women are women?
Academic freedom?
Lamenting a ‘simpler age’?
Notes
Chapter Eleven: A Crisis of Love
Wellbeing and safety Indicators
The invisible student
Notes
Part Three: What Next for Universities?
Chapter Twelve: The Totally Inclusive University Audit
Introduction
Continuum on becoming a totally inclusive university
Summarising the actively discriminating, failing university
Summarising the tokenistic, rhetorically correct university
Summarising the reflectively unsettled, contradictory university
Summarising the tentative – working to become a learning university
Summarising the rebuilding, transformative and advancing university
Summarising the totally inclusivity university
Where is your university on the totally inclusive continuum?
Chapter Thirteen: What Next for You?
Male dominance
Intersectional leadership
No ‘love song’ to leadership
What can you do as an TI advocate to advance intersectional leadership?
Examples of total inclusivity-approaches in action
Strategy and empathy need each other
Notes
Bibliography
