Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies

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v CONTENTS Foreword: Faculty as Change Agents—Reflections on My Academic Life ix CHERYL A. WALL Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Listen to the Submerged Voices—Faculty Agency in a Challenging Climate 1 WINNIFRED R. BROWN-GLAUDE PART ONE Diversity and/as Intellectual Leadership 1 Instituting a Legacy of Change: Transforming the Campus Climate at the University of Maryland through Intellectual Leadership 17 AMY MCLAUGHLIN, BONNIE THORNTON DILL, SHARON HARLEY, AND DEBORAH ROSENFELT 2 Discourses of Diversity at Spelman College 39 ALMA JEAN BILLINGSLEA-BROWN AND GERTRUDE JAMES GONZALEZ DE ALLEN 3 Institutional Diversity Work as Intellectual Work at the University of Missouri–Columbia 61 JENI HART, MARGARET GROGAN, JACKIE LITT, AND ROGER WORTHINGTON PART TWO Dismantling/Challenging Hostile Micro/Macroclimates 4 Faculty Microclimate Change at Smith College 83 MARTHA ACKELSBERG, JENI HART, NAOMI J. MILLER, KATE QUEENEY, AND SUSAN VAN DYNE 5 We, They, and Us: Stories of Women STEM Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities 103 JOSEPHINE BRADLEY, DEBORAH COOK, DEIDRE MCDONALD, AND SARAH NORTH 6 Unprecedented Urgency: Gender Discrimination in Faculty Hiring at the University of California 119 MARTHA S. WEST PART THREE The Challenges of Incomplete Institutionalization 7 Feminist Interventions: Creating New Institutional Spaces for Women at Rutgers 137 MARY HAWKESWORTH, LISA HETFIELD, BARBARA BALLIET, AND JENNIFER MORGAN 8 Agents of Change: Faculty Leadership in Initiating and Sustaining Diversity at the University of Arizona 166 JENI HART, LINDY BRIGHAM, MARY K. GOOD, BARBARA J. MILLS, AND JANICE MONK 9 Designs for Diversity: The University of Miami’s Caribbean Writers Summer Institute and Caribbean Literary Studies 184 PATRICIA JOAN SAUNDERS AND SANDRA POUCHET PAQUET CONTENTS vi PART FOUR Administration–Faculty Collaborations for Diversity 10 Institutional Contexts for Faculty Leadership in Diversity: A University of California–Santa Barbara Case Study 209 JOSEPH CASTRO, SARAH FENSTERMAKER, JOHN MOHR, AND DEBRA GUCKENHEIMER 11 A Ripple Effect: The Influence of a Faculty Women’s Caucus on Diversity and Equity at the University of Vermont 231 PEG BOYLE SINGLE AND DANNIELLE JOY DAVIS 12 Linking Mobilization to Institutional Power: The Faculty-Led Diversity Initiative at Columbia University 249 EMMA FREUDENBERGER, JEAN E. HOWARD, EDDIE JAUREGUI, AND SUSAN STURM Afterword: Faculty as Change Agents Redux—Reflections on My Academic Life 277 MARY S. HARTMAN Contributors 285 Index 289 CONTENTS vii ...