Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts: International and Interdisciplinary Approaches

381 Pages·2018·4.223 MB·English

by  SunHee Kim Gertz,Betsy Huang,Lauren Cyr (eds.)

Diversity and Inclusion
in Higher Education
and Societal Contexts
International and Interdisciplinary Approaches
EDITED BY SUNHEE KIM GERTZ,
BETSY HUANG, AND LAUREN CYR
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher
Education and Societal Contexts
SunHee Kim Gertz
Betsy Huang • Lauren Cyr
Editors
Diversity and
Inclusion in Higher
Education and
Societal Contexts
International and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Editors
SunHee Kim Gertz Betsy Huang
Clark University Clark University
Worcester, MA, USA Worcester, MA, USA
Lauren Cyr
Clark University
Worcester, MA, USA
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We dedicate this volume to all who work toward creating inclusively diverse
climates, whose efforts too often go unappreciated in our communities.
F
oreword
This project began concretely with the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force
convened at Clark University in the fall semester of 2011. The need for
more multiply informed approaches to diversity and inclusion efforts was
clear to many of us then. And now, with aggressively far right approaches
globally assailing societies daily, the need for thoughtful, civically responsi-
ble, and action-oriented responses seems to have accelerated significantly.
We hope that this volume will stimulate such responses and ask that you
join in these efforts by contributing your own ideas, sharing successful
approaches, and urging others to sustain those hallmarks of human dignity
that have evolved over time and that stem the tide against raw capitalism
intended to benefit only a few.
Clark University SunHee Kim Gertz
Worcester, MA, USA Betsy Huang
Lauren Cyr
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A
cknowledgments
We are deeply grateful to the Leir Charitable Foundations, the Leir Retreat
Center, and the Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Luxembourg Program-Clark
University for funding our three workshops on diversity and inclusion,
workshops that allowed us the time and civilized space to work through
some tough questions and put together this volume.
SunHee Kim Gertz
Betsy Huang
Lauren Cyr
ix
c
ontents
1 Saturation, To Create a Civilized Space 1
SunHee Kim Gertz
2 Literature Review: Interdisciplinary Findings on Diversity
and Inclusion 17
Lauren Cyr
Part I Building a Diverse and Inclusive Framework 35
3 National and International Legal Platforms, Theory
and Practice: The Example of Luxembourg
and the Current Immigration Crisis 39
Dominique Faber
4 On Citizenship, Art, and Action 53
Natasha Marin
5 Diversity and Inclusion in Turkey: Citizenship
and Belonging 75
Melike Sayoglu
6 Educating for Inclusive Diversity 97
Charlotte Securius-Carr and Reiner Rohr
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xii CoNTENTS
7 Supporting Strategies for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
in Higher Education Faculty Hiring 119
Henry F. Fradella
Part II Conditions for Inclusively Diverse Learning 153
8 Disability Studies in the Universal Design University 157
Justin J.W. Powell and Lisa Pfahl
9 Structural Competency and African Contexts: A Mixed
Methodological Approach to Interrogating Strategies
for Greater Health Equity 189
Esther L. Jones
10 Diversity and Life Writing in the Transnational Classroom 211
Alfred Hornung
Part III The Need for Constant Oversight 235
11 The Law and Its Limits on the Path to Inclusive Diversity 237
Luna Rösinger
12 Diversity, Inclusion, and the US Census: A Conversation
with Paul Watanabe 257
Paul Watanabe
13 The Gap Between Assessment and Creating Inclusion 271
Esteban Cardemil
14 Inclusive Diversity and Business Ethics: Challenges
from the European Migrant Crisis 285
Christoph Luetge
CoNTENT S xiii
15 N egotiating Diversity’s Discontents 301
Betsy Huang
Works Cited and Recommended 325
Index 365