Today, no institution can ignore the need for deep conversations about race and ethnicity. But colleges and universities face a unique set of challenges as they explore these topics. Diversity Matters offers leaders a roadmap as they think through how their campuses can serve all students well.
Five Key Sections
Campus Case Studies: Transforming Institutions with a Commitment to Diversity
Why We Stayed: Lessons in Resiliency and Leadership from Long-Term CCCU Diversity Professionals
Voices of Our Friends: Speaking for Themselves
Curricular/Cocurricular Initiatives to Enhance Diversity Awareness and Action
Autoethnographies: Emerging Leaders and Career Stages
Each chapter in Diversity Matters includes important discussion questions for administration, faculty, and staff.
Karen A. Longman is the PhD Program Director and Professor of Doctoral Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University. She also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), where she worked for nineteen years as Vice-President for Professional Development and Research. In 2016, Longman’s contributions to Christian higher education were recognized through receiving the John R. Dellenback Global Leadership Award. Longman is coediting Christian Higher Education: An International Journal of Research, Theory, and Practice and an eight-volume book series being sponsored by the International Leadership Association focused on Women and Leadership—the first volume is titled Women and Leadership in Higher Education. She holds a PhD in Higher Education from the University of Michigan.