A Critical Review of Governance and Ideologies of Diversity and Inclusion in U.S. Higher Education

• In Event: Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: AERA 2016 Division J Section 3: Organization, Management, and Leadership Posters

Abstract

Given the juxtaposition of student racial demographic shifts in public higher education with the near stagnancy of postsecondary leadership demographics, this paper illuminates and critiques scholarship at the intersection of equity and academic governance, specifically focused on Boards of Trustees. Implications, grounded in a comprehensive literature review, frame a new conceptually focused research agenda concerned with: (1) challenging racial homogeneity and hegemony that slows institutional change efforts and (2) a board representative of the public.

Authors

• Raquel M. Rall, University of California - Riverside

• Demetri L. Morgan, University of Pennsylvania

• Felecia Elana Commodore, Old Dominion University