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Informationen zum Autor Damon A. Williams is the Associate Vice Chancellor, Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a clinical member of the faculty in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He leads a dedicated CDO division and has worked with over 200 organizations interested in developing cutting-edge strategic diversity capabilities. His professional focus is in the areas of strategic planning, leadership development, chief diversity officer design, establishing dedicated diversity infrastructures, change management, youth development, program evaluation, and assessing diversity outcomes. Visit the author's YouTube Channel for videos, keynotes, and author presentations. Klappentext This offers an overarching conceptual framework for pursuing diversity in a national and international context; delineates and describes the competencies! knowledge and skills needed to take effective leadership in matters of diversity; offers new data about related practices in higher education; and presents and evaluates a range of strategies! organisational structures and models drawn from institutions of all types and sizes. Zusammenfassung This book is written from the perspective that diversity work is best approached as an intellectual endeavor with a pragmatic focus on achieving results that takes an evidence-based approach to operationalizing diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword William G. Tierney INTRODUCTION Strategic Diversity Leadership. Inspiring Change and Transformation in Higher Education PART ONE. WHY IS DIVERSITY IMPORTANT IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM? 1. Diversity in the New Economy. Navigating the Perfect Storm PART TWO. WHAT IS DIVERSITY? 2. Toward a Twenty-First Century Definition of Diversity 3. Higher Education Organizational Diversity Models PART THREE. WHAT IS STRATEGIC DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP? 4. Why Diversity Efforts Fail. The Cheetah and the Wolf 5. The Artful Science of Strategic Diversity Leadership 6. Being Accountable. Building a Strategic Diversity Leadership Scorecard 7. Developing and Implementing Successful Diversity Plans 8. Activating the Diversity Change Journey. A National Portrait of Diversity Capabilities in Higher Education 9. Diversity Committees, Commissions, and Task Forces REFERENCES INDEX ...
