Full Description
This resource offers theoretical perspectives and practical guidance for creating equitable and inclusive learning environments in graduate and professional education (GPE).
Thought-provoking and action-oriented, this text underscores the shared responsibility of educators, administrators, and leaders to improve equity and inclusion on both the individual and institutional levels. Contributors target critical areas that significantly impact student experience and retention, providing concrete recommendations based on empirical research and lived experiences. Chapters conclude with bulleted strategies and reflection questions that allow readers space to apply the guidance to their unique contexts.
Given the moral imperative on higher education to be socially responsible while simultaneously acknowledging oppositional forces toward diversity and inclusion initiatives, this book equips GPE leaders, administrators, and practitioners with the tools necessary to build consensus for change, design and/or evaluate programs, and defend proposed changes with evidence.
Contents
Introduction: Why Equity and Inclusion Matter in Graduate Education
Stephanie Bondi, Uyen Tran-Parsons, and Vijay Kanagal
Part 1: Centering People in the Academy: Humanizing Graduate Education
1. Intentional and Active Hiring of Faculty and Staff for Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Graduate Education
Stephanie Bondi, Gwendolyn Marizett Combs, Shavonna Holman, and Elvira Abrica
2. Applicants Speak: Reimagining Institutional Practices for Graduate Recruitment and Admission
Aradhana N. Sringagesh and Annemarie Vaccaro
3. Cultivating a Justice-Informed Teaching Praxis: The Difference, Power, and Oppression Academy
Kali Furman and Nana Osei-Kofi
4. Practicing Relationality to Explore Responding to Reports of Bias
Colette M. Yellow Robe and Stephanie Bondi
Part 2: Mentoring, Advising, and Supervising Graduate Students
5. Enhancing the Underrepresented Graduate Student Experience: Advancing Advising and Mentorship Practices
Meena and Xiao Yun Sim
6. Reimagining and Humanizing Graduate Education through Holistic, Identity-Focused Faculty Advising
Sonja Ardoin, Michelle Boettcher, Tony Cawthon, et al.
7. Navigating Resistance to Inclusive Leadership Through Mentoring
Brooke Wells and Helen Abdali Soosan Fagan
8. Learning to Supervise Across Difference: Reimagining Identity-Conscious Supervision Training Within Graduate Preparation Programs
Craig Elliott and Aja C. Holmes
Part 3: Graduate Student Exhaustion and Reducing Labor in the Academy
9. Integrating Disability Culture to Alleviate Hidden Labor Costs for Disabled Graduate and Professional Students
Amelia-Marie K. Altstadt, Javin D'Souza, and Jeffrey Alex Edelstein "Jae"
10. Critical Organizational Justice and Labor Exploitation: Graduate Students Doing Program, College, and Campus Service
Michael Anthony Goodman, Dawn Kioye Culpepper, Alexa Lee Arndt, and Wuqi Yu
11. THE ROC: Developing Influential Co-Constructed Graduate Support Spaces
Michelle Maria Leao, Lisa Delacruz Combs, Hannah L. Reyes, et al.
Part 4: Curricular and Co-Curricular Perspectives in Graduate and Professional Education
12. Transforming Curriculum for Equity and Inclusion in the Context of Internationalization in Graduate and Professional Programs
Milad Mohebali, Paushali Saha, Truc Nguyen, et al.
13. Developing Cultural Sensitivity Among Health Care Students
Caitlin M. Gibson and Jennifer Santee
14. Good Trouble: Activating Measurable Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) Values in Graduate Health Professions Curricula
Patrick G. Corr, Paige L. McDonald, Julia Xavier, et al.
15. What Do Grades Have to Do With It?: Engaging Collaborative Grading Techniques to Enhance Graduate Student Learning
Laila I. McCloud and Sonja Ardoin
16. Direct Connections Between Life and Death: The Development of a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Office at a Graduate School of Health Professions
Kimberly A. Truong and Clyde Wilson Pickett
Conclusion: Facing the Headwinds—A Call to Action for Equity and Inclusion in Graduate Education
Vijay Kanagala, Stephanie Bondi, and Uyen Tran-Parsons
