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EL 756

Diversity in Higher Education

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Average gradeA-
Standard

Overview

Description

A reading course on leadership responsibilities for building campus environments that support student, faculty, and staff diversity.

Units

Lecture3

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Offering

Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

Terms

spring

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Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • demonstrate self-awareness of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, social class, age, ability, and religion as well as an understanding of how these categories affect those who are different from themselves and their participation in higher education.
  • articulate how categories of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, social class, religion, sexual orientation, ability, age, and so on intersect and overlap within higher education campus communities.
  • describe the effects of structural inequalities and prejudicial exclusion in higher education.
  • describe how difference, discrimination, bias, and privilege are manifested on college campuses.
  • describethe historic development of differing perspectives related to diversity and various processes that might lead to a more equitable college experience.