Case Studies in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education: An Internal Perspective is designed to serve as a resource and guide for students studying leadership, higher education, student affairs, and/or ethnic studies. The goal is to connect equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice theories to practice and allow students to actively engage through grappling with diverse issues within a variety of institutional contexts. This collection of cases includes both hypothetical situations and cases highlighting real experiences, programs, and events, Cases illustrate faculty, staff, and students with intersected identities navigating the challenges of the structural inequities inherent in higher education institutions. Using the cases in the classroom or in campus-based training will facilitate the application of theory to practice in small group discussions. Each case also has a written application prompt to allow for deeper research, examination and reflection about the intersections of race, ethnicity gender, class, sexual orientation, immigration status, and position power dynamics created as increasingly diverse groups of students, faculty and staff enter and try to succeed in the academy.
About the Authors
Forward
Chapter 1 Instructional Scenarios
Supporting the Needs of Undocumented Students at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
Jennifer Alanis and Patty Witkowsky
Tiffany: A Case of Intersection of Disability and Disciplinary Process
Lisa Matye Edwards
From Borderlands to Top Tier Research Universities: Fostering Community Cultural Wealth in
STEM Doctoral Programs
Annalisa Ugarte
Dire Straits of a Community College: The Modern Scylla and Charybdis
Ari Rosner-Salazar
Intimate Partner Violence in College at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation
Elena Sandoval-Lucero and Lynda S. Sandoval
K v Bruce, So Much Intersectionality
Jody Donovan and Carla Stein
Mistrust Among Friends: Plagiarism
Elizabeth Ndika and Patrice Green
Community College Leaders’ Positional Power
Ignacio Hern á ndez, Marie Harris, and Juan Bedolla
Student Identity Development Theory Use in Assessing White and Black Students Attending a Predominantly White Institution
Keith Wilder
Cinco de Mayo: Celebration of Culture or Stress Management Strategy?
Elena Sandoval-Lucero and Quill Phillips
Navigating Diversity, Leadership, and Social Media Challenges in Higher Education
Abigail Rose, Angela V. Jimenez, Vikki Carr, Jose G. Carrillo and Jonathan Fein Proaño
Administrative Challenges of Reconciling Passion, People, and the Politics of Academic Freedom, Free Speech, and Facilitating Values of Inclusion and Belonging on Campus
Stephanie J. Fujii
Chapter 2 Experiential Scenarios
Who Deserves Fairness? Using Restorative Justice to Address Racism, Sexism, and Supremacy in Colleges and Universities
Charla Agnoletti
The R Factor: Considering the Salience of Race in the Experiences of African American College Students
Bridgette Coble
Service Learning and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: The University of Colorado’s INVST Program and the Black Mesa Water Coalition
Sabrina Carolina Sideris
Navigating the Perils of Emotional Labor: A Chicana Faculty perspective at a Predominately White Institution (PWI)
Johanna B. Maes
Redefining Who Is An Honors Student
Martha Enciso
Institutions of Higher Education: Evaluation and Assessment Black Male Faculty
Everett Singleton
Comadre Wisdom: Nurturing Culturally Responsive Mentoring Relationships at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs)
Brianna Mestas
Dialogue as a Tool for Difficult Conversations
Ashmi Desai and Karen Ramirez
Becoming Visible and Recognized: Native American and Indigenous Experience in Predominately White Institutions
Loren Intolubbe-Chmil
Afterward
Index