Building sustainable diversity in higher education isn''t just the right thing to do-it is an imperative for institutional excellence and for a pluralistic society that works. *Updated Edition*
Daryl G. Smith has devoted her career to studying and fostering diversity in higher education. In Diversity''s Promise for Higher Education, Smith brings together research from a wide variety of fields to propose a set of clear and realistic practices that will help colleges and universities locate diversity as a strategic imperative and pursue diversity efforts that are inclusive of the varied-and growing-issues apparent on campuses without losing focus on the critical unfinished business of the past.
To become more relevant to society, the nation, and the world, while remaining true to their core missions, colleges and universities must continue to see diversity-like technology-as central, not parallel, to their work. Indeed, looking at the relatively slow progress
