New Directions for Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability in Higher Education
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 9229
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diversity; equity; inclusion and belonging in higher education; faculty productivity; staff performance/evaluation; student success
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions for this Special Issue of Sustainability. This Special Issue aims to push the boundaries of research, science, and scholarship on the nexus between diversity, inclusion, and sustainability in postsecondary and higher education.
The real success of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) efforts in higher education depends, in part, on their sustainability, and an integral component of sustainability is the capacity to embrace diverse communities, voices, and approaches in equitable and inclusive ways that foster belonging. Thus, forward-thinking institutions and individuals agree that diversity and inclusion are important for sustainability, even if it is less clear how, why, when, to what extent, and under what conditions this is the case. For example, many leading corporations attribute record-setting revenue generation, client satisfaction, employee productivity, and “Fortune” status to links between their sustainability strategy and their DEIB plan, according to reports.
In light of increasing challenges faced by higher education related to the global pandemic (COVID-19), record-breaking turnover and burn-out (“The Great Resignation”), international wars and political unrest, climate change, remote teaching/working, and rising costs, to name just a few, it is more important than ever that scholars, practitioners, campus/community leaders, and those who cross these categories (e.g., practitioner–scholars) conduct, commission, and curate high-quality research that charts “New Directions for Diversity, Inclusion, and Sustainability in Higher Education.” This is the expressed scope and purpose of this Special Issue of Sustainability.
This Special Issue will usefully advance, critique, and supplement existing literature by developing, examining, identifying, interrogating, and promoting scalable and sustainable policies and practices that address issues of diversity, level (in)equitable “playing fields,” enact social justice, and achieve DEIB across all aspects of the higher education enterprise. Original research articles, reviews, short communications, technical reports, commentaries, case studies (i.e., programs that work), research notes, and book reviews are welcome. All methods, methodologies, and approaches are encouraged: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, historical, policy analysis, legal writing, and more.
Research topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Accessibility, (dis)ability, compliance, and ethics;
- Decolonization of the curriculum/canon;
- Indigenous value systems and practices
- Narratives of place and place-based scholarship;
- Capacity-building at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) including Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges, and Asian–American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions (AANAPISIs);
- Racial justice movements;
- Economic, environmental, and social sustainability of higher education institutions;
- Future of for-profit colleges;
- Campus or government (federal/state) policies and procedures that address systematic problems (e.g., food/housing [in]securities, affordability);
- Academic planning and enrollment management at community colleges, MSIs, and technical schools;
- DEIB metrics, benchmarks, and strategic planning;
- Institutional or organizational health, well-being, and overall functioning.
Prof. Dr. Terrell Lamont Strayhorn
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diversity
- equity, inclusion
- belonging
- sustainability
- higher education
- strategic planning
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