Creating a web of support: an important leadership strategy for advancing campus diversity |
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Authors: | Adrianna Kezar Peter Eckel Melissa Contreras-McGavin Stephen John Quaye |
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Institution: | (1) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;(2) American Council on Education, Washington, DC, USA;(3) University of Marylane, College Park, MD, USA |
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Abstract: | Research demonstrates that leadership, particularly among presidents, is important for moving a diversity agenda forward and make appreciable progress on it. The research questions pursued here are: What is the role of the college president in advancing a diversity agenda? What strategies do presidents identify as important to facilitating a diversity agenda? There were three main findings: (1) strategies are deployed in a non-linear way best represented through a web metaphor, (2) six sets of actors that serve as key nodes on the web and specific strategies were crucial to enhancing and deepening the web-developing an internal network, hiring, mentoring, partnering with faculty on the curriculum, supporting student affairs staff, working directly with and learning from students, and establishing external networks; and, (3) strategies within the human resource frame are noted by presidents as particularly important to moving a diversity agenda forward. |
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Keywords: | College presidents Diversity agendas Change Leadership |
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