Diversity and Inclusion Resources

The information provided on this page is designed to provide education and insight on diversity and inclusion topics. The resources provide many viewpoints on a variety of D&I issues. 
Disclaimer: All resources on this page are not a direct reflection of the ideals and beliefs of Northshore Technical Community College. They are provided to expand the wealth of knowledge for our NTCC community.

DE&I Competency Areas:

Cultural Competency

• Project Ready
• Equity and Empowerment
• Belonging and Inclusion
• Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color
• Developing Cultural Competency in Higher Ed.
• Cross Cultural Competency and Multicultural Teacher Education
• Intercultural Competency
• Microresistance and Ally Development: Powerful Antidotes to Microaggressions

Microaggression Development and Understanding

• Vision and Framework for Change
• I "Too" am Harvard Project
• Understanding Microaggression and Its Effect on Mental Health
• Unconscious Bias, Implicit Bias, and Microaggressions: What Can We Do about Them?
• Microaggressions in the Nursing Classroom Environment
• Gendered Microaggressions in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
• Racial microaggressions contribute to disparities in STEM education
• Microaggressions and micro-affirmations: Opportunities for learning and inclusion

Promotion of Civility

• 5 Ways to Promote Civility in the Workplace
• Make Civility the Norm on Your Team
• Promoting Civility in Nursing
• Promoting Civility at Public Meetings: Concepts and Practice
• 10 Actions You Can Focus on to Influence Culture of Respect, Civility in your Workplace
• Promoting Civility in Education and Practice: One Nurse’s Experience
• Four Steps Proven To Cultivate Workplace Civility
• An Analysis of Campus Civility: Best Practices from Student Affairs Professionals

Social Justice Development

• Aspiring Social Justice Ally Identity Development: A Conceptual Model 
• Social Justice Counseling: Toward the Development of a Fifth Force Among Counseling Paradigms
• Understanding Education for Social Justice
• Impact of Service-Learning and Social Justice Education on College Students’ Cognitive Development
• Competitiveness, Cohesion, and Governance: Their Implications for Social Justice 
• Toward a framework for preparing leaders for social justice
• The Development of Social Justice Allies During College: A Phenomenological Investigation 

• From hopelessness to hope: Social justice pedagogy in urban education and youth development

Understanding Implicit Bias

• Understanding implicit bias: What educators should know
• Understanding Implicit Bias: Putting the Criticism into Perspective
• Beyond Persons and Situations: An Interactionist Approach to Understanding Implicit Bias
• Six Lessons for a Cogent Science of Implicit Bias and Its Criticism
• Reducing Implicit Bias Through Curricular Interventions
• The Relationship Between Level of Training, Implicit Bias, and Multicultural Competency Among Counselor Trainees
• Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

• A Path to Greater Inclusivity Through Understanding Implicit Attitudes Toward Disability

DEI Issues in Higher Education

Representation

• Disparities in Student and Faculty Representation
• Minority Representation in Higher Education: The Impact of Population Heterogeneity
• Alienation of Ethnic Minority Students at a Predominantly White University
• Increasing Minority Representation in the Health Professions
• Examining Ethnic Minority Representation in Higher Education Website Imagery
• Increasing Minority Representation in the Health Care Professions
• Disproportionate Minority Representation in General and Special Education: Patterns, Issues, and Alternatives
• Competing Explanations for Minority Enrollments in Higher Education
• Disproportionate Minority Representation in Suspension and Expulsion in Minnesota Public Schools
• Contrasting Corporate Profiles: Women and Minority Representation in Top Management Positions

Race

• The dynamics of race in higher education: An examination of the evidence
• Choices of degree or degrees of choice? Class,race'and the higher education choice process
• The role of critical race theory in higher education
• Race and ethnicity in higher education: A status report
• Immigrant status, race, and institutinal choice in higher education
• Implication of Race and Gender in Higher Education Administration: An African American Women's Perspective
• Access and Equity for African American Students in Higher Education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis of Policy Efforts
• Race without Racism: How Higher Education Researchers Minimize Racist Institutional Norms
• Engaging the ''Race Question'': Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher Education
• Critical Race Theory
• Why Diversity Became Orthodox in Higher Education, and How it Changed the Meaning of Race on Campus

Socioeconomic Status

• Socioeconomic Status and College: How SES Affects College Experiences and Outcomes
• Understanding college degree completion of students with low socioeconomic status: The influence of the institutional financial context
• Predictors of Delayed College Enrollment and the Impact of Socioeconomic Status
• Emerging from the Pipeline: African American Students, Socioeconomic Status, and College Experiences and Outcomes
• Socioeconomic Status and Depression Over the Life Course
• Socioeconomic Status, Education, and Reproduction in Modern Women: An Evolutionary Perspective
• Peer-mentoring of students in rural and low socioeconomic status schools: increasing aspirations for higher education

Ethnicity

• Capitals, ethnicity and higher education
• Race and ethnicity in higher education: A status report
• Settling into Campus Life: Differences by Race/Ethnicity in College Involvement and Outcomes
• Understanding academic performance of international students: the role of ethnicity, academic and social integration
• Social and cultural capital, race and ethnicity, and college student retention
• Diversity matters: Race, ethnicity, & the future of Christian higher education
• Staggered Inequalities in Access to Higher Education by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

Developmental and Acquired Disabilities

• Faculty attitudes and students with disabilities in higher education: A literature review
• Students with disabilities: Transitioning from high school to higher education
• Students with disabilities in higher education: A review of the literature
• Deconstructing Barriers: Perceptions of Students Labeled With Learning Disabilities in Higher Education
• The chilly climate for students with disabilities in higher education
• Students With Psychiatric Disabilities in Higher Education Settings: The Americans With Disabilities Act and Beyond
• A Validated Curriculum to Provide Training to Faculty regarding Students with Disabilities in Higher Education
• Transitioning Students with Disabilities into Higher Education
• Including young people with disabilities: Assessment challenges in higher education
• Academic Performance of Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: Insights from a Study of One Catholic College
• Using wraparound to support students with developmental disabilities in higher education

Sexual Orientation

• College Student Capacity for Socially Responsible Leadership: Understanding Norms and Influences of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
• Sexual Minority Students in Non-Affirming Religious Higher Education: Mental Health, Outness, and Identity
• Sexual orientation disparities in mental health: the moderating role of educational attainment
• Education Attainment and Obesity: Differential Returns Based on Sexual Orientation
• Evolving Nature of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Coming Out in the Classroom...An Occupational Hazard?: The Influence of Sexual Orientation in Teach Creditability and Perceived Student Learning
• Exploring Relationships Between Sexual Orientation and Satisfaction with Faculty and Staff Interactions
• Thinking about sexual orientation: College experiences that contribute to identity salience
• Campus Climates for Sexual Minorities
• LGBT and Queer Research in Higher Education: The State and Status of the Field

Faith-Based Beliefs (Religious or Spiritual)

• Faith and Understanding: Specifying the Impact of Higher Education on Religious Belief
• Sexual Minorities in Faith-Based Higher Education: A National Survey of Attitudes, Milestones, Identity, and Religiosity
• Faith-based higher education and the religiosity of Christian college students.
• Moving beyond the stained glass ceiling: Preparing women for leadership in faith-based higher education
• An Examination of Non-Muslim College Students’ Attitudes Toward Muslims
• Exploring Individual and Interpersonal Level Factors Associated with Academic Success of College Students at a Women’s, Faith-based Higher Institution
• How College Affects Students' Religious Faith and Practice: A Review of Research
• Exploring the relationship between differentiation of self and religious questing in students from two faith-based colleges
• Reconsidering Campus Diversity: An Examination of Muslim Students' Experiences

​​​Gender Awareness and Identity

• Implications of Race and Gender in Higher Education Administration: An African American Woman’s Perspective
• A Grounded Theory Study of the Development of Trans Youths’ Awareness of Coping with Gender Identity
• Gender: Awareness, Identity, and Stereotyping
• Ethnicity and Gender in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: Group Identity and Awareness of Bias
• College student capacity for socially responsible leadership: Understanding norms and influences of race, gender, and sexual orientation
• Use of an Intersectional Framework to Understand Black Women’s Racial and Gender Identities
• Deliberative teacher education beyond boundaries: discursive practices for eliciting gender awareness
• Awareness of a gender stereotype, personal beliefs and self-perceptions regarding math ability: when boys do not surpass girls
• Exceptional Female Students of Color: Academic Resilience and Gender in Higher Education
• WHERE THE BOYS AREN’T: NON-COGNITIVE SKILLS, RETURNS TO SCHOOL AND THE GENDER GAP IN HIGHER EDUCATION
• Some Things Never Change: Gender Segregation in Higher Education across Eight Nations and Three Decades
• Gender and gender-identity differences in learning styles.