Not Token Gestures
Practical DEI Strategies in 21st-Century Higher Education
Not Token Gestures
Practical DEI Strategies in 21st-Century Higher Education
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Description
Contributors from various backgrounds offer insights for practices that move DEI efforts from the superficial and into the very fabric of how academia functions.
This volume offers practical strategies to support inclusive campus development in 21st century US higher education. Administrators, artists, and faculty from across the country provide tips for constructing curriculum, how to intervene in administrative procedures, and ways of enacting preliminary shifts to encourage a rich understanding of “academic excellence” for higher education. This collection emphasizes the human costs of decision making in higher education, and the need to draw from knowledges created by different communities to support learning spaces conducive to student growth. Born in a moment when DEI is under attack, contributors consider the immediacy that many members of US higher education find themselves in right now to construct tactical practices that can be taken up with expediency and rigor. Yet, contributors do not sacrifice quality for stealth. Indeed, contributors show that foundational to this era is an opportunity to move “DEI” from a side-project and into the fabric of academia.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword: The State of Things, Ritu Radhakrishnan
Introduction: It's Not a Death Knell. It's a Call to Arms, Roberta Hurtado
Section I: Responding to the Attacks
Preface, Roberta Hurtado
It Is Time to Dissent, Claudia Hernández
Almanac of Our Struggle, Ricardo Nazario y Colón
¡Mi Hija es una Mujer Profesional!: Latinas in Higher Education Administration, Doris Diaz-Kelly
Letter from an Ally, Laura Donnelly
Section II: Strategic Curriculum
Preface, Roberta Hurtado
A Day at the Races, Ricardo Nazario y Colón
1. Whose Strategies Are We Teaching?: Reconceptualizing Curriculum Towards Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice, Ritu Radhakrishnan
2. Using Self “In Relationship” to Understand Another: Towards Cultural Humility and Empathy through Storytelling in Counselor Training Curriculum, Fred Millán
3. ¿Y Tú Abuela? Oculta Está: Challenging Anti-Blackness and Anti-AfroLatino Trends in Higher Education Curriculum, Stefan Carretero
4. You Can't Heal Us If You Don't Even Know Us: Music Medicine and Rethinking Pre-Med Curriculum Adaption to Community Needs, Christophe Jackson and Roberta Hurtado
5. Fighting Intellectual Disarmament: Reframing Understandings of Criminal Justice through a Social Empowerment Lens, Celinet Duran Jiménez
6. Past, Present, and Futurity: Everything You Wanted to Know About Introduction to Native American Studies But Were Too Afraid To Ask, Michael Chaness
7. Critically Teaching Asian American Studies and an Asian American Studies-less University, Michelle Choi Ausman and Nina Ha
Section III: Strategic Infrastructural Change
Preface, Roberta Hurtado
Crumbs at the Table, Ricardo Nazario y Colón
8. This is Why We Don't Have Nice Things: Rethinking Higher Education and Equity to Achieve Educational Excellence, Rodman King and Roberta Hurtado
9. Intimate Retrofits: Strategic Decolonial Practices in the Recruitment and Hiring Process for Domestic Faculty of Color in the Academy, Roberta Hurtado
10. APIDA Leadership in Higher Education: Tokenism, Challenges, and Recommendations, Vincent M. Wang, Alexander Liên Thomas, Teresa Wilson, and Nina Ha
11. Hija de Mi Madre: Latina Leaders and Increasing Diversity Representation in Higher Education Administration, Zulaika Rodriguez
12. La Familia: Strategically Intervening in Medical School Recruitment and Retention Efforts to Increase Representation Among Future Practitioners and Educators, Christina Guillén
13. Bridging the Gap: Connecting Services to Historically Excluded Students in Higher Education, Edward Martinez
14. Learning Tongues: Strategic Recruitment, Acceptance, and Retention Efforts to increase English Language Learners Enrollment and Success in Higher Education, Pathy Leiva
Conclusion: Words for the Future, Roberta Hurtado
Product details
| Published | Dec 11 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 284 |
| ISBN | 9798216258933 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 3 figures, 5 tables |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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