They Not Like Us: Reclaiming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on HBCU Campuses

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 1:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Preserve and Innovate: The Role of HBCUs in Shaping Black Excellence and Educational Equity (Table 5)

Abstract

Since the inception of this nation, predominately white postsecondary institutions (PWIs) were not historically or institutionally designed for, or positioned to address, design, or define diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI) policies. Therefore, recent resistance to the goals and objectives of DEI are neither novel nor surprising. Social and historical structures have limited access to higher education and evade minoritized and other underrepresented groups on PWI campuses. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Postsecondary Assessment (DEIPA) was developed as a tool to a) re-examine, re-articulate, and operationalize DEI from the perspective, contexts, and historical underpinnings; and b) identify and evaluate some of the variables associated with the healthy development of DEI institutional climates, cultures, identities, and contexts on an HBCU campus.

Author

• Janeula M. Burt, Bowie State University