Mentorship in Diversity Leadership in Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to 1) review the need for diversity leadership in higher education, 2) explore the challenges of diversity leaders, 3) specify the need for mentorship in diversity leadership, 4) share the authors’ successful e-mentoring experiences as women faculty of color engaged in diversity leadership, and 5) offer recommendations on how to incorporate technology as a tool for mentorship in diversity leadership in higher education. The term “diversity” can be considered as vast as it is vague. For the purpose of this chapter, diversity refers to the recruitment and retention of students and faculty of color in higher education as well as the incorporation of multiculturalism across disciplines and curricula.

Articulating diversity on campus: A critical discourse analysis of diversity statements at historically white institutions.

“…We anchor this study in Thomas’s (2018, 2020) conceptualization of diversity regimes, which underscores how institutions stage a benign commitment to diversity. Specifically, diversity statements represent an institution’s attempt to “publicize a commitment to fostering diversity in higher education” (Packer-Williams & Evans, 2013, p. 244). CDA served as an appropriate tool given its focus on identifying how “social power abuse, dominance, and inequity are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context” (Van Dijk, 2003, p. 352).…”