Making Excellence Inclusive

Publications and Articles

High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter
This publication—the latest report from AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative—defines a set of educational practices that research has demonstrated have a significant impact on student success. Author George Kuh presents data from the National Survey of Student Engagement about these practices and explains why they benefit all students, but also seem to benefit underserved students even more than their more advantaged peers. The report also presents data that show definitively that underserved students are the least likely students, on average, to have access to these practices

Making a Real Difference with Diversity provides readers with a step-by-step guide for implementing, evaluating, and sustaining comprehensive diversity work on campus. Drawn from a six-year diversity initiative involving twenty-eight independent California colleges and universities, the monograph offers a set of promising practices and selected quantitative and qualitative findings pertaining to efforts to enhance college access and success for underrepresented students, increase the presence of underrepresented minority faculty, and strengthen overall institutional functioning regarding diversity.

Making Excellence Inclusive: Liberal Education and America’s Promise
By Carol Geary Schneider in Liberal Education, Spring 2005 issue

Making Excellence Inclusive A Framework for Embedding Diversity and Inclusion into Colleges and Universities’ Academic Excellence Mission (Draft)
By Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Nancy O'Neill, and Caryn McTighe Musil
(We are seeking feedback on this draft. Please send any comments to Nakia Bell at bell@aacu.org.)

More Reasons for Hope
Honoring the late Edgar Beckham and his profound influence on higher education, More Reasons for Hope examines the trends in diversity education since an earlier AAC&U monograph published a decade ago called Reasons for Hope. The monograph features a major address by Edgar Beckham that identifies intellectual, structural, and political challenges that need to be addressed in the next generation of diversity work. It charts progress and setbacks and includes more than thirty current exemplary campus diversity programs, policies, and practices from across the country.

AAC&U News Features: Member Innovations on Making Excellence Inclusive

Highline Community College
"Making Excellence Inclusive: Community College Honors"

University of Denver
"Diversity Goes Beyond Numbers at the University of Denver"