A Diversity Curriculum: Integrating Attitudes, Issues, and Applications

Rethinking Diversity in Policing: An Analysis of Diversity Training Standards in Basic Police Academies Across the United States

“…The literature does not offer a unified or accepted list of knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that public employees need to possess to successfully operate in a diverse community. In fact, our attempt to conduct a systematic review of the published research on diversity training in the public administration literature was abandoned after yielding only 35 studies (e.g., Bernotavicz 1997;Blessett and Pryor 2013;Carrizales 2010;Kim and Ofori-Dankwa 1995;Lopez-Littleton and Blessett 2015;Rice 2004;2007;2015;White 2004). Moreover, the studies that were retrieved either focused on diversity training policies (e.g., Groeneveld and Verbeek 2012), or on the effectiveness of training programs through employee perceptions of the training (e.g., Kim and Ofori-Dankwa 1995;Naff and Kellough 2003).…”

“…In the context of public administration, Carrizales (2010) explains that understanding legislation is a prerequisite for promoting cultural diversity among employees who are recipients of public funds. Other scholars also asserted that public administrators must understand the legislative background and history of congressional legislations such as civil rights, equal employment opportunity, and affirmative action (Bernotavicz 1997); how public sector diversity has been influenced by landmark court decisions (Pitts, Recascino, and Wise 2010); and how the legal environment affects dimensions of diversity, such as disability status (Harding and Peel 2007), sexual orientation (e.g., Israel et al 2017), and other protected classes (Bernotavicz 1997).…”

A qualitative analysis of JPAE’s international context articles: Comparative emphasis in public affairs education

“…This examination revealed that in the vast majority (approximately 350) of the articles none of the terms, comparative, foreign, global, or international, was used to denote what could be called an International Context emphasis for the publication, but rather for other, less specialized uses. To illustrate, these nonrelevant uses of the term ranged from articles that had sentences considering "… dramatic demographic changesboth national and global…" (Bernotavicz, 1997), to ones discussing the "…global information age…" (Bainbridge et al, 2015).…”