ABSTRACT
DIVERSITY-AND-INCLUSION-AS-ACTION Diversity. It requires thought. It requires understanding. But, mostly, diversity is a call toward action, a verb, something that one can demonstrate, behave, enact. Our task in this book is to call for action. We charge our readers to do something with, about, and for diversity. To ensure that all people have their right to pursue happiness, their right to be included in the fabric of the United States and the world, requires action. Inclusion is not something that happens on its own. To enact diversity in positive ways requires the act of inclusion. And inclusion assumes the deliberate act of bringing people into the group, the norms, into the opportunities that will allow for a meaningful pursuit of happiness. Our focus in these pages is on racial and ethnic diversity and inclusion in higher
education. We start from the assumption that higher education is a vessel through which these goals can be enacted and then modeled into society more generally.
