Why Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Initiatives in Higher Education Really “DIE"

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  • Don (Four Arrows) Trent Jacobs Fielding Graduate University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v14i3.186700

Keywords:

diversity, equity, inclusion, higher education, faculty

Abstract

Managerialism in higher education is often a reaction that presidents and boards employ when trying to show they are tackling obvious problems. Hiring “Chief Diversity Offices” reflects this trend, and reveals the difficulty of administrators and faculty in seeing past the hierarchy of colonialism and addressing the mandate for authentic inclusion by returning to a pre-colonial mindset via critical, counter-hegemonic education and worldview reflection.

Author Biography

Don (Four Arrows) Trent Jacobs, Fielding Graduate University

Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs is a faculty member in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. Formerly Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and tenured Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University. With doctorates in health psychology and in Curriculum and Instruction (with a cognate in Indigenous Worldview) he has authored 21 books and numerous other publications relating to wellness, critical theory, education and Indigenous worldview. AERO elected him as one of 27 visionaries for their text, Turning Points, and he is recipient of several recognitions for his activism, including the Martin-Springer Institute's Moral Courage Award.

Critical Education Volume 14 Number 3 2023

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2023-07-14

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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2023)

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