EDAD.5215 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education
This graduate seminar focuses on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sex/gender, sexuality, disability, and other identity differences in U.S. higher education. Diversity, a collective label for the plurality of our identities, is discussed from a historical perspective, providing a context for contemporary experiences described by and about students, staff, faculty, and administrators. In this course, we examine contemporary issues related to access, participation, climate, curriculum, policy, outcomes, and benefits. The course is designed to introduce students to theories, concepts, policies, controversies, challenges, and possibilities related to gender, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, socio-economic, ability, and religious differences among students, faculty, administrators, and other employees in postsecondary settings. The successful student in this course will be able to describe and analyze issues related to diversity and equity, and to prepare graduates to work in an increasingly pluralistic society and to have multicultural competence for engaging with diverse groups.