Considering Diversity in College Teaching[1]
Kevin M. Johnston
Director, Teaching Assistant Programs
Michigan State University
The following resources shape my approaches to considering (and practicing) diversity and effective inclusion in my programming, teaching, and consulting. I hope readers find these resources helpful to their thinking about (and action concerning) diversity and inclusion in higher education. I have divided this list based on what I and many of my colleagues have come to consider as the key topics shaping others’ approaches to teaching and talking about diversity. Many of the decisions I have made about what to include, leave out, and how to divide these resources could challenge others’ understandings of what constitutes diversity and appropriate categorization. Concerning the former: A recent google search of “Race and Diversity in Higher Education” yielded 614,000 hits. Accordingly, I have only included resources with which I am familiar. And when considering the latter: certainly other schemes for arranging the following resources may prove more useful for you.
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General Resources/Sites
De Castell, S. and M. Bryson (Eds.) (1997). Radical in<ter>ventions: Identity, politics, and difference/s in educational praxis. Albany: State University Press of New York.
de la Luz Reyes, M. and J.J. Halcon. (1988). Racism in academia: The old wolf revisited. Harvard Educational Review, 58:3, 299-314.
Diversity in Higher Education. American Psychological Association. http://www.apa.org/ed/graduate/diversity4.html
Diversity Web. An interactive resource hub for higher education. http://www.diversityweb.org/
Gainen, J., & Boice, R. (Eds.) (1993). Building a diverse faculty. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Girgus, J. (1999). Refereeing on different playing fields: Diversity in higher education. American Psychologist, 54, 356-357.
Johnsrud, L.K. and C.D. Atwater. (1993/Spring). Scaffolding the ivory tower: Building supports for faculty new to the academy. CUPA Journal, 1-14.
Kuh, G. (2008). High-impact educational practices: What they are, who has access to them, and why they matter. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Lynn, M. (1998). Teaching through diversity. College Teaching, 46, 123-127. Multi-cultural Resource Center. Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis. http://www.bellarmine.edu/documents/StudentAffairs/MulticulturalResourceCenter.pdf
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, (1993). Theme Issue: Building a Diverse Faculty, 53.
Smith, W. A., Altbach, P. G, & Lomotey, K. (2002). The racial crisis in American education: Continuing challenges for the twenty-first century. Albany, NY: State University Press of New York.
Taylor, E. (2000) And the winner is: Us. How we may all benefit from diversity in academe. Change, 32 (4), 42-45.
Teaching Tolerance. A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. http://www.tolerance.org/
Teddlie, C., & Freeman, J. A. (2002). Twentieth-century desegregation in U.S. higher education: A review of five distinct historical eras. In W.A. Smith, P.G. Altbach, and K. Lomotey (Eds.), The racial crisis in American higher education, (pp. 77-99.). Albany: State University Press of New York.
Tierney, W. G., & Bensimon, E. M. (1996). Promotion and tenure: Community and socialization in academe. Albany: State University Press of New York.
Timpson, W., Yang, R., Borrayo, E., & Canetto, S. S. (2005). Three hundred strategies for teaching diversity. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.
Tobias, S. (1990). They’re not dumb, they’re different: Stalking the second tier. Tucson, AZ: Research
Corporation.
Tovar, M. (1997). Enhancing diversity in graduate education. Graduate plan for enhancing diversity: Oklahoma State University. Prepared for the Council of Graduate Schools Peterson's Award Competition, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater.
Turner, C., Garcia, M., Nora, A., & Rendon, L. (Eds.) (1996). Racial & Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education. ASHE Reader Series. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.
Vega –Garcia, S. A. Library Guides: Race and Ethnic Studies. Iowa State University. http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/cat.php?cid=4590
Wagner, U. (1992). Environments of Support. American Council on Education, Washington, DC.
Watkins, W.H. (2002). Understanding the socialization process. In L. Jones (Ed.), Making it on broken promises: Leading African American male scholars confront the culture in higher education. (pp. 99-106). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
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(Examples of) Disciplinary-Based Resources
American Indian Science and Engineering Society. http://www.aises.org/
Asian American Journalist Association. http://www.aaja.org/
Association of Black Sociologists. http://www.blacksociologists.org/
Bernal, M. (1994). Integration of ethnic minorities into academic psychology: How it has been and what it could be. In E. J. Trickett, R. J. Watts, and E. Birman (Eds.), Human Diversity: Perspectives on People in Context (pp. 404-423). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Choi-Pearson, C. (1998). The multicultural climate: Reactions from counseling psychology training directors, faculty, and racial/ethnic minority graduate students. Dissertation Abstracts International, 59, (5-A), 1434.
Hammond, W. R., & Yung, B. (1993). Minority student recruitment and retention practices among schools of professional psychology: A national survey and analysis. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24, 3-12.
National Society of Hispanic MBAs. http://www.nshmba.org/Page.aspx?pid=209
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Diversity and Culture
Banks, J. A. (1993). Multicultural education: characteristics and goals. In J. Banks & C. Banks (Eds.), Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives (pp. 385-407). Seattle, WA: CME. (See also, “Diversity within Unity: Essential for Teaching and Learning in a Multi-Cultural Society http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural/banks.htm )
CRLT Multi-cultural teaching: Occasional papers. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. http://www.crlt.umich.edu/multiteaching/multipapers.php (Includes the following .pdfs: Perceptions of Faculty Behavior by Students; Undergraduate women in Science and Engineering Fields; Providing Academic Support; Student Learning Styles and their Implications; the Effect of Student Diversity on Student Learning at the University of Michigan: Faculty and GSI Perspectives; Making Accommodations for Students with disabilities: A guide for Faculty and Graduate Student Instructors; Creating Inclusive College Classrooms)
Giroux, H. A. (2000). The war against cultural politics: Beyond conservative and neo-enlightenment left “oppositions”: A critique. In C. J. Ovando & P. McLaren (Eds.), The politics of multiculturalism and bilingual education; Students and teachers caught in the crossfire. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Greene, M. (1993). The passions of pluralism: Multiculturalism and the expanding community. Educational Researcher, 22(1), 13 – 18.
______. Diversity and inclusion: toward a curriculum for human beings. Teachers College Record, 95(2), 211 – 221.
Kaplan, M., and Miller, A. T. Miller (Eds.) (2007). The scholarship of multicultural teaching and learning (pp. 63-71). New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 111. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Mitchell, L. A. (2009/July). Becoming culturally responsive teachers in today’s diverse classroom. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Meeting (Annual, San Diego, CA, July, 2009)
Murphy, S. P. (Ed.) (2008). Academic cultures; Professional preparation and the teaching life. New York; MLA.
National Association for Multi-cultural Education (NAME). http://www.nameorg.org/
Paige, R. M. (1993). Education for the intercultural experience. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.
Schoem, D., Frankel, L., Zúñiga, X., & Lewis, E. A. (Eds.). (1993). Multicultural teaching in the university. Westport, CN: Praeger.
Seelye, H. N. (1984). Teaching culture; Strategies for intercultural communication. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co.
Winter, D. (2007). Infusing mathematics with culture: Teaching technical subjects for social justice. In M. Kaplan & A. T. Miller (Eds.), The scholarship of multicultural teaching and learning (pp. 97-106). New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 111. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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International Faculty
Althen, G. (1983). American ways: A guide for foreigners in the United States. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.
Amin, N. (2001). Nativism, the native speaker construct, and minority immigrant women teachers of English as a second language. CATESOL Journal, 13(1), 89-107.
Braxton, R. (1999). Culture, family and Chinese and Korean American student achievement: An examination of student factors that affect student outcomes. College Student Journal, 33, 250 – 256.
Global Institute for Higher Education. Michigan State University. http://gihe.msu.edu/
Hune, S. (1997). Higher education as gendered space: Asian-American women and everyday inequities. In C. Ronai, B. A. Zsembik, & J.R. Feagin (Eds.), Everyday sexism in the third millennium (pp. 181-96). New York: Routledge.
______. (1999). Asian Pacific American women in higher education: claiming visibility and voice. Washington, D. C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Li, G., & Beckett, G. H. (Eds.). (2006). “Strangers” of the academy: Asian women scholars in higher education. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Rong, X. L. (2002). Teaching with differences and for differences: Reflections of a Chinese-American teacher educator. In L. Vargas, (Ed.), Women faculty of color in the white classroom: Narratives on the pedagogical implications of teacher diversity (pp. 125-144). New York: Peter Lang.
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Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender Resources – The Consortium of LGBT Campus Directors Resource Guide - National Consortium of Directors of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Resources in Higher Education. Begun officially n 1997, the mission on the Consortium is to achieve higher education environments in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni have equity in every respect.
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Minority Populations in the Academy[2]
Akbar, N. (2002). The psychological dilemma of African American academicians. In Jones, L. (Ed.). Making it on broken promises: Leading African American male scholars confront the culture in higher education (pp. 31-42). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
American Indian Higher Education Association. http://www.aihec.org/
Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Professors. http://www.uwm.edu/~michael/nativeprofs/default.htm
Banks, W.M. (1984 January/February). Afro-American scholars in the university. American behavioral scientist, 27:3, 325-338.
Boice, R. (1993). New faculty involvement of women and minorities. Research in Higher Education, 34, 291-341.
Borman, K., Kromrey, J.D., Thomas, D., & Dickinson, W. (1998). University Women and Minorities: A Case Study of Organizational Supports and Impediments for Faculty. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April 13-17, 1998).
Branch, A.J. (2001). How to retain African American faculty during times of challenge for higher education. In Jones, L. (Ed.). Retaining African Americans in higher education (pp. 175-191), Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Brothers of the Academy. http://www.brothersoftheacademy.org/
Calhoun, T., Hougland, J., Ihinger-Tallman, M., Lee, B., & Ortega, S. (Eds.) (1999). Recruiting and Graduating Students of Color. Prepared for the Committee on Graduate Education.
Carter, R. (2000). Reimagining race in education: A new paradigm from psychology. Teachers College Record, 102(5), 864-897.
de la Luz Reyes, M. (1997). Chicanas in academe: An endangered species. In De Castell, S. and M. Bryson (Eds.) Radical in<ter>ventions: Identity, politics, and difference/s in educational praxis. State University of New York Press.
DeVaney, S. & Hughley, A. (2000). Career development of ethnic minority students. In Luzzo, D. A. (Ed.) Career counseling of college students: An empirical guide to strategies that work. (pp. 233-252). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Frierson, Jr., H.T. (1990). The situation of black educational researchers: Continuation of a crisis. Educational researcher. 19:2, 12-17.
Gaffney, N. (1995). Enhancing the Minority Presence in Graduate Education VI: Catalyst for Success: The Summer Research Opportunity Program. Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, DC.
Garcia, M. (Ed.) (2000). Succeeding in an Academic Career: A Guide for Faculty of Color. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Green, A. L., & Scott., L. V. (Eds.) (2003). Journey to the Ph.D: How to navigate the process as African-Americans. Sterling, VA: Stylus Press.
Harvey, W.B. (1999). Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings: African American administrators in predominantly white colleges and universities. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Johnsrud, L.K. and K.C. Sadao. (1998). The common experience of 'otherness': Ethnic and racial minority faculty. The Review of Higher Education, 21:4, 315-342.
Jones, L. (Ed.). (2001). Retaining African Americans in higher education, Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Jones, L. (Ed.). (2002). Making it on broken promises: Leading African American male scholars confront the culture in higher education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Judson, H. (1999). A meaningful contribution. In Harvey, W.B. Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings: African American administrators in predominantly white colleges and universities. (pp. 83-111). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Latinos in Higher Education. http://www.latinosinhighered.com/
León, D. J. (Ed.). (2002). Latinos in Higher Education. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Looney, J. (1994). Prescription for persistence. Black Issues in Higher Education, 11, 18-24.
Mabokela, R. O, & Green, A. L. (Eds.). (2002). Sisters of the academy: Emergent black women scholars in higher education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Menges, R, J., & Exum, W. H. (1983). Barriers to progress of women and minority faculty. Journal of higher Education, 54(2), 123-44.
Sisters of the Academy. http://www.sistersoftheacademy.org/
Steele, C. M. (1999). Thin ice: “Stereotype threat” and black college students. The Atlantic Monthly, 84(2), 44-54.
Stricker, G., Davis-Russell, E., Bourg, E., Duran, E., Hammond, R., McHollan, S., Polite, K., & Vaughn, B. E. (Eds). (1990). Toward ethnic diversification in psychology education and training. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
The Quality Education for Minorities Project's Action Council on Minority Education. (1990). Education That Works: An Action Plan for the Education of Minorities. Cambridge, MA: The Quality Education for Minorities Project.
Tippeconnic III, J.W. (2002). American Indians and Alaska native faculty in academe: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Paper presented at the "Keeping our Faculties" Conference, University of Minnesota (April 21-23), pp. 53-59.
Turner, C.S., S.L. Myers, Jr., and J.W. Creswell. (1999). Exploring underrepresentation: The case of faculty of color in the Midwest. The journal of higher education, 70:1, 27-59.
Turner, C.S. and Myers, Jr., S.L. (2000). Faculty of color in academe: Bittersweet success. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
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Race in the Academy
Scheurich, J.J. and M.D. Young. (2002). White racism among White faculty: From critical understanding to antiracist activism. In Smith, W.A., P.G. Altbach, and K. Lomotey (Eds.), The racial crisis in American higher education (221-242). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Allen, W.R., Epps, E.G., Guillory, E.A., Suh, S.A., Bonous-hammarth, M., & Stassen, M.L.A.. (2002). Outsiders within: Race, gender, and faculty status in U.S. higher education. In Smith, W.A., P.G. Altbach, and K. Lomotey (Eds.) The racial crisis in American higher education. (pp. 189-220). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,.
Anderson, J.D. (2002). Race in American higher education. In W.A. Smith, P.G. Altbach, and K. Lomotey (eds.), The racial crisis in American higher education. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 3-21.