Teaching Diversity Web and Print Resources

IRW Teaching Diversity Workshop

April 12, 2005

Association of American Colleges and Universities
http://www.aacu.org/

• Provides a list of AAC&U diversity initiatives and publications. http://www.aacu.org/issues/diversity/index.cfm

Diversity Web

www.diversityweb.org

• Section titled Diversity Innovations has an extensive list of other web resources and publications committed to integrating diversity into the academy through teaching and faculty initiatives. Includes:
• Diversity Innovations http://www.diversityweb.org/diversity_innovations/institutional_leadership/index.cfm
• Curriculum Change. Links to resources, models, and curriculum implemented by state and private institutions of higher learning.
• Institutional Leadership.
• Faculty/Staff Development.
• Student Development.

Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), University of Michigan

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/crlttext/indextext.html

• Includes brief summaries and bibliographies of chapters from the journal, New Directions in Teaching and Learning.
• “Promoting Diversity in the Classroom.” Maurianne Adams, Editor. 1992, Volume 52.
• This bibliography lists articles that encourage instructors to become conscious of their own identity development and bias to improve their teacher-student interactions in the classroom. Several lessons learned are shared, as well as curricular solutions.
• “Teaching for Diversity.” Laura L.B. Border and Nancy Van Note Chism, Editors.
  1992, Volume 49.
• This bibliography lists articles on topics ranging from the implications of diverse learning styles for instructional design to an ethnographic approach to the feminist classroom.

Vanderbilt Center for Teaching http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/resources/gleanings/diversity.htm#biblio

• Extremely useful website that serves as a central location for diversity curriculum initiatives ongoing at other universities, articles regarding teaching diversity, links to bibliographies and journals for further research and resources, etc.