Designing Transformative Multicultural Initiatives

Designing Transformative Multicultural Initiatives

Higher education is facing a perfect storm as it contends with changing demographics, shrinking budgets and concerns about access and cost, while underrepresented groups â€“ both in faculty ranks and students â€“ 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 â€œdiversity as a valueâ€ â€“ that is embracing social change efforts as central and additive rather than episodic and required â€“ 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 booksâ€™ focus on developing capacities for multicultural competence aligns with higher educationâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Stylus Publishing (VA)
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2015-06-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781620360606

Country	USA
Brand	Stylus Publishing (VA)
Manufacturer	Routledge
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2015-06-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781620360606

Designing Transformative Multicultural Initiatives

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