Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy

Preface; Gail Crimmins.- Chapter 1. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: Statistics can create impetus to address educational inequity; Gail Crimmins.- SECTION I. Supporting racial diversity in the academy.- Chapter 2. Promoting race equality and supporting ethnic diversity in the academy: The UK experience over two decades; Andrew Pilkington.- Chapter 3. Reflecting on representation: Exploring critical tensions within doctoral training programmes in the UK; Rebecca Gordon and Lakshmi S. Bose.- Chapter 4. Killing the Indigene: Interrogating the support of First Nations' diversity in the modern university; Sandy O'Sullivan.- Chapter 5. Refugees in neoliberal universities; Aura Lounasmaa.- Chapter 6. A critical-relational approach to community development that increases well-being, learning outcomes and retention of international students; Athena Lathouras.- SECTION II. Engendering gender diversity in higher education.- Chapter 7. Thriving in the academy: Culturally responsive mentoring for Black women's early career success; Tamara Bertrand-Jones, Jesse R. Ford, Devona F. Pierre and Denise Davis-Maye.- Chapter 8. Women and leadership: Strategies of gender inclusion in institutions of higher education in India; Karuna Chanana.- Chapter 9. Mainstreaming gender into the quality assurance of higher education programs; Tània Verge.- Chapter 10. Success for LGBT college and university students; Kristen A. Renn.- Chapter 11. Trans inclusive higher education: Strategies to support trans, non-binary and gender diverse students; Stephanie Mckendry and Matson Lawrence.- SECTION III. Re'class'ifying academia.- Chapter 12. The Coffee Club: An initiative to support mature and non-traditional higher education students in Wales; Dawn Mannay and Michael R.M. Ward.- Chapter 13. Using a funds of knowledge approach to engage diverse cohorts through active and personally relevant learning; Sally Tazewell.- Chapter 14. The impact of stigma, placement instability and

Gail Crimmins is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research interests include gender inequity and the often unheard narratives of women, and uses of feminist approaches to research.