ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a description of selected programs and activities designed to respond to the educational challenges copiously documented in the higher education literature. Such challenges include recruitment of racially diverse faculty and students, retention of racially diverse faculty and students, construction of curricular materials within school and discipline-specific programs, international outreach, etc. The practices that follow have been found to be the foundations necessary for making racial diversity work in the institution’s campus environment. The idea that racial diversity will work in institutions of higher education assumes that educational institutions are interested in recruiting and retaining underrepresented minorities in higher education. Institutional commitment to diversity on campus begins with the President’s announced intention to make diversity a critical part of the institution’s organizational life. An element that contributes to the advancement of racial diversity in campus environments is the creation of initiatives that drive the efforts of the institution.
