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American Association of University Professors. “AAUP's purpose is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.” URL: http://www.aaup.org/
AAUP, Diversity & Affirmative Action in Higher Education. “This page lists documents describing the Association’s policies and ongoing work on these issues, and other pertinent information to allow members to follow current developments.” URL: http://www.aaup.org/Issues/AffirmativeAction/index.htm
AAUP, Workplace Issues for Faculty. URL: http://www.aaup.org/Issues/workplace/index.htm
“Best Practices in the Creation of Inclusive Classrooms: Teaching Tips for Undergraduate Instruction.” Links to the most frequently referenced Excellence in Teaching Programs. URL: http://teaching.unr.edu/etp/inclusive/
Diversity Web, An interactive resource hub for higher education hosted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and publisher of “Diversity Digest.” URL: http://www.diversityweb.org/
Electronic Resources on Diversity, hosted by Santa Clara University, URL: http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/esources.html
Fair Test, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing. “The National Center for Fair & Open Testing is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound. We place special emphasis on eliminating the racial, class, gender, and cultural barriers to equal opportunity posed by standardized tests, and preventing their damage to the quality of education. Based on four Goals and Principles, we provide information, technical assistance and advocacy on a broad range of testing concerns, focusing on three areas: K-12, university admissions, and employment tests.” URL: http://www.fairtest.org/
Harvard University, The Civil Rights Project: Renewing the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and actions. “Our mission is to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, and by becoming a preeminent source of intellectual capital and a forum for building consensus within that movement.” URL: http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/
Higher Education Resource Hub: An extensive and useful search engine. “The goal of this evolving website is to provide a comprehensive collection of information resources in the field of higher education throughout the world.” URL: http://www.higher-ed.org/home.htm
Multicultural Pavilion, Resources and Dialogues for Equity in Education. Mission: “to provide resources for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education; facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness and development; and provide forums for educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education.” URL: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/
National Association for Multicultural Education, Advocates for Educational Equity and Social Justice. URL: http://www.nameorg.org/
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). “The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) fosters human development in higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development. POD believes that people have value, as individuals and as members of groups. The development of students is a fundamental purpose of higher education and requires for its success effective advising, teaching, leadership, and management. Central to POD's philosophy is lifelong, holistic, personal, and professional learning, growth, and change for the higher education community. URL: http://www.podnetwork.org/publications&resources/programdescriptions.htm
Santa Clara University, “Electronic Resources on Diversity.” An extensive compilation of useful resource links indexed by ethnic group, “this web site, which strives to reflect the Jesuit tradition of promoting social justice through service, was partially funded by a grant from Leaders for a Just World, funded by the James Irvine Foundation and will hopefully encourage the appreciation of the many cultures available in this diverse valley.” URL: http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/esources.html
Stanford University, National Center for Postsecondary Improvement. “In the wake of fifty years of rapid higher education expansion, colleges and universities are now facing a rapidly changing set of local, national, and international pressures. Through its ambitious research agenda, the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) aims to provide its various constituent groups--policymakers, employers, faculty, students, parents, and administrators--with analysis, recommendations, and conceptual tools that will enable them to adapt to, and even thrive in, this environment. NCPI's research, dissemination, and outreach efforts are creating a national forum for examining and improving teaching, learning, and reorganization efforts across a wide range of postsecondary settings--from community colleges to research universities. Our research is organized into six interconnected windows of study, with each project area pursuing a substantive set of issues. The researchers leading these projects bring an impressive range of disciplinary lenses--including economics, organizational studies, political science, history, sociology, and psychology--that provide a strong foundation for inquiry and dialogue.” URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/
Susan A. Vega Garcia, Iowa State University, “Diversity and Ethnic Studies: Recommended Research and Websites and Research Guides.” “The primary focus of this Web site is to provide links to African American, American Indian, Asian American, and U.S. Latino resources, along with links to resources on often-overlooked minorities such as lesbians, bisexuals, and gays. There's also a brief list of multicultural resources, meaning those that deal with more than one ethnic minority or cultural group. For help locating "real world" library reference materials to assist in research on U.S. racial, ethnic and cultural diversity studies, please consult the Library Research Guides.” URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/divweb2.htm
Understanding Prejudice.org. “A web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice.” URL: http://understandingprejudice.org/
University of California, Santa Cruz, “Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE). “CREDE is a federally funded research and development program focused on improving the education of students whose ability to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty….During 2001-2003, seven synthesis teams are extracting the key findings and practices from the field, including work done by CREDE's two predecessors–the National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning (NCRCDSLL) and the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP). The teams will producing a range of publications and other tools to help teachers implement best practices in the classroom.” URL: crede
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), “Diversity” page. “AAC&U has provided national leadership on the issue of diversity in higher education since 1971. AAC&U’s work in this area has focused primarily on higher education’s responsibilities in a diverse democracy and American pluralism, diversity, and justice-seeking as elements of a quality liberal education for all students. AAC&U’s initiative American Commitments: Diversity, Democracy, and Liberal Learning has been the anchor of this work since its launch in 1994. The project addresses fundamental questions about higher education in a diverse democracy. The project publishes policy papers and resources, supports faculty study and institutional planning, and provides materials for curriculum development and classroom teaching. Through this initiative and others in this area, AAC&U has created a community of institutions committed to making diversity an integral part of educational excellence and civic engagement. (For additional information, also see Global Learning and Civic Engagement, and Women).” URL: http://www.aacu-edu.org/issues/diversity/
University of Maryland, the Consortium on Race, Gender and Identity. “A university-wide initiative promoting research, scholarship and faculty development that examines intersections of race, gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of difference as the shape the construction and representation of identities, behaviors and complex social relations.” URL: www.crge.umd
University of Maryland, Diversity Database, “Moving Towards Community”: A comprehensive index of multicultural and of diversity resources. URL: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/
University of Michigan, “Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action,” Resource page for teaching. URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/biblio.htm
University of Michigan, School of Education, “Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education” (CSHPE). “The Center’s primary missions are to generate and apply knowledge; to advance the role of higher education in supporting the public good; and to improve institutional practice. Program priorities include integrating theory and practice, maintaining strong interdisciplinary relationships, fostering high quality research, and sponsoring activities that enhance leadership development.” URL: cshpe
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