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Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity: Critical Perspectives for Leadership book cover

1st Edition

Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity Critical Perspectives for Leadership

Edited By Adrianna Kezar, Julie Posselt Copyright 2020
298 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity empowers all administrators in higher education to engage in their work—to make decisions, hire, mentor, budget, create plans, and carry out other day-to-day operations—with a clear commitment to justice, sensitivity to power and privilege, and capacity to facilitate equitable outcomes. Grounding administration for social justice as... Read more

List of Contributors

Foreword - Robert Sternberg

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: A Call to Just and Equitable Administrative Practice
Adrianna Kezar and Julie Posselt

PART I. SETTING AND SHIFTING PRIORITIES

2. Renewing and Revitalizing Shared Governance: A Social Justice and Equity Framework

Adrianna Kezar and Jude Paul Matias Dizon

3. Choose Wisely: Making Decisions With and For Equity in Higher Education
Julie Posselt, Theresa Hernandez, and Cynthia D. Villarreal

4. Elevating Equity through a Strategic Finance Approach: Empowerment as the Goal
Christopher M. Mullin

5. Practitioner Reflection: Working in Topsy-Turvy Higher Education Environments
Vasti Torres

PART II. 　HUMAN RESOURCES　

6. Rethinking Mentoring: Integrating Equity-Minded Practice in Promoting Access to and Outcomes of Developmental Relationships
Kimberly A. Griffin

7. Reconceptualizing "Merit" and "Fit": An Equity-Minded Approach to Hiring
Roman Liera and Cheryl Ching

8. Social Justice and Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Untangling the Issues
Daniel J. Julius

9. Practitioner Reflection: Leading for Social Justice in Enrollment Management and Policy　
Jerry A. Lucido

PART III. ACCOUNTABILITY AND DATA

10. Leadership for Equity-Minded Data Use Towards Racial Equity in Higher Education
Alicia C. Dowd and Branden D. Elmore

11. An Examination of Anti-Sexual Harassment Policies and Practices: Legal Administration for Socially Conscious Campuses

Jeffrey Sun

12. Practitioner Reflection: Feeding the Data Hungry: The Role of the IR Professional in Ensuring Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education
Jennifer L. Ivie

PART IV. CULTURE AND STRUCTURE

13. Navigating Neoliberal Organizational Cultures: Implications for Higher Education Leaders Advancing Social Justice Agendas
Samuel D. Museus and Lucy A. LePeau

14. Developing Equitable Work-Life Policies on Campus: The Importance of Addressing Power and Hierarchy
Jaime Lester

15. Words Matter: Social Justice and Policy Discourses in Higher Education
Magdalena Martinez and Deanna Cooper

16. Practitioner Reflection: Equity Minded Leadership Perspectives for Community Colleges
Luca E. Lewis

Biography

Adrianna Kezar is Dean’s Professor for Higher Education Leadership at the University of Southern California and Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, USA.

Julie Posselt is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, USA and Research Director of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network.

"I am confident you will find the essays in this book as provocative, edifying, and practically useful as I did as you learn how colleges and universities can do much more to create within their gates the same equity and social justice that many of us would like to see permeate our society. "
from the Foreword by Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University

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