ABSTRACT
Almost twenty years after the American Council on Education published its handbook for enhancing diversity (Green, 1989), the Association of American Colleges and Universities published Making a real difference with diversity (Clayton-Pedersen, Parker, Smith, Moreno, & Teraguchi, 2007), a step-by-step guide for implementing and sustaining diversity work on campus. This publication joins a growing list of publications designed to document the challenges and benefits of diversity, and offer administrators promising practices and practical tools for identifying and assessing diversity on campus, enhancing access and success for historically disadvantaged groups, and strengthening the overall institutional functioning regarding diversity (see Bauman, Bustillos, Bensimon, Brown, & Bartee, 2005; Does Diversity Make a Difference?, 2000; Garcia et al., 2003; Kezar & Eckel, 2005; Milem, Chang, & antonio, 2005; Now is the time, 2005; Williams, Berger, & McClendon, 2005). The diversity agenda is no longer limited to simply improving the proportional representation of under-represented minorities; “each campus must create an environment that embraces diversity as one of its core values, infusing every aspect of campus life and purpose, and every measure of success” (Now is the time, 2005, p. 1; also Milem, Chang, & antonio, 2005, p. 31).
