Essential DEI Reading List

Essential articles, reports, and statements regarding the work of diversity and inclusion, particularly in higher education.

ACCESSIBILITY

Meeks, Lisa M. and Neera R. Jain, "Accessibility, Inclusion, and Action in Medical Education, Lived Experiences of Learners and Physicians with Disabilities," Association of American Medical Colleges, University of California, San Francisco (March 2018).

ASSESSMENT

Montenegro, Erick and Natasha A. Jankowski, "Focused on What Matters: Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes at Minority-Serving Institutions," National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (April 2015).

COVID

Apoorva Mandavilli, "Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?" New York Times, April 13, 2021. [Includes a number of useful links to studies supporting concern.]
UC Davis Health, Women in Medicine and Health Sciences, "Gendered-Impact of COVID, Publications documenting the impact of COVID on women's careers"

EQUITY

Aldana, Raquel. "Framing Diversity as an Equity Project." Presentation to UC Davis Anthropology Department, April 29, 2019.

GENDER

Wolfers, Justin. "Why Women's Voices Are Scarce in Economics," New York Times (2 February 2018).
Missing, but Vital: Strategies for Women Presidents at Minority Serving Institutions, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania (4 April 2018).
Falkoff, Michelle. "Why We Must Stop Relying on Student Ratings of Teaching," The Chronicle of Higher Education (25 April 2018).
The National Academies, Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (20 June 2018).
The University of Arizona, Commission on the Status of Women, "Avoiding gender bias in reference writing"

GENERAL

Cuellar, Marcela. "Understanding Latinx College Student Diversity and Why It Matters," Higher Education Today (29 January 2018).
Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman, "Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Academic Settings," Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010).
Smith, Daryl G. Diversity's Promise for Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

LEADERSHIP

Ahmed, Sara. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Smith, Daryl G. Diversity's Promise for Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Smith, Daryl G. "How to Diversify the Faculty," American Association of University Professors (Sep-Oct 2000): 48-52.
Whittaker, Joseph A., Beronda L. Montgomery, and Veronica G. Martinez Acosta. “Retention of Underrepresented Minority Faculty: Strategic Initiatives for Institutional Value Proposition Based on Perspectives from a Range of Academic Institutions.” Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education 13.3 (2015): 136–145.
Williams, Damon A. Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2013.

MENTORING

Crutcher, Betty Neal. "Mentoring Across Cultures," Academe (July/August 2007).
Harvard Business School, "Beyond the Myth of the Perfect Mentor," (10 June 1998).
Terry McGlynn, "The Mentoring Buck Stops Here," Small Pond Science (22 September 2016).

PIPELINE

Lindsay Pérez Huber, et al., "Still Falling Through the Cracks: Revisiting the Latina/o Education Pipeline," UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (November 2015).

RACE

RACE–The Power of an Illusion, companion website to the 2003 PBS documentary series, Haas Institute and the American Cultures Center and the Media Resources Center at UC Berkeley.

SCIENCES