SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Fellows

The recordings for these webinars (and more information) can be found in the DEISJ Faculty Network. The recordings for the 2024 webinars can also be found there.

Request access to the Faculty Network by emailing deisjfellows@suny.edu.

These resources provide introductory or foundational knowledge about various DEISJ curricular topics. These resources and many more can also be found in the DEISJ Fellows’ Zotero bibliography. This primer offers information on how to use this bibliography most effectively. Please reach out to deisjfellows@suny.edu if you would like access to the full Zotero bibliography.

Overview of DEISJ topics 

Allen, Ricky Lee. “Whiteness and Critical Pedagogy.” Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 36, no. 2, 2004, pp. 121–36.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2004.00056.x.

Brignall, Thomas W., and Thomas L. Van Valey. “Approaches to Diversity Education: A Critical Assessment.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, vol. 1, no. 39, May 2017, pp. 117–27. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.55671/0160-4341.1005.

Conley, Paige A., and Maria L. Hamlin. “Justice-Learning: Exploring the Efficacy with Low-Income, First-Generation College Students.” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, vol. Fall, 2009, pp. 47–58.

Gonzales, Leslie D., et al. “Comfort over Change: A Case Study of Diversity and Inclusivity Efforts in U.S. Higher Education.” Innovative Higher Education, vol. 46, no. 4, 2021, pp. 445–60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-020-09541-7.

McElderry, Jonathan A., and Stephanie Hernandez, editors. Developing an Intersectional: Consciousness and Praxis Moving toward Antiracist Efforts in Higher Education. Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2025. Open WorldCat, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=4082319.

Social justice pedagogies

Adams, Maurianne, et al. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. Fourth, Routledge, 2023.

Edwards, Keith E. “Aspiring Social Justice Ally Identity Development.” NASPA Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, 2006, pp. 39–60. Zotero, https://doi.org/10.2202/1949-6605.1722.

Kishimoto, Kyoko. “Anti-Racist Pedagogy: From Faculty’s Self-Reflection to Organizing within and beyond the Classroom.” Race Ethnicity and Education, vol. 21, no. 4, July 2018, pp. 540–54. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1248824.

McCormack, Shashray. “Backpack of Whiteness: Releasing the Weight to Free Myself and My Students.” Urban Education (Beverly Hills, Calif.), vol. 55, no. 6, 2020, pp. 937–62.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919892035.

Sleeter, Christine E. “Confronting the Marginalization of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.” Urban Education, vol. 47, no. 3, May 2012, pp. 562–84. SAGE Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085911431472.

Social justice movements

Ferguson, Roderick A. We Demand: The University and Student Protests. University of California Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520966284.

Hall, Budd L. Learning and Education for a Better World the Role of Social Movements. 1st ed. 2012., Sense Publishers, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-979-4.

Kendi, Ibram X. The Black Campus Movement Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972. 1st ed. 2012., Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012.

Meiners, Erica R., and Maisha T. Winn. “Resisting the School to Prison Pipeline: The Practice to Build Abolition Democracies.” Race Ethnicity and Education, vol. 13, no. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 271–76. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2010.500832.

Welton, Anjalé D., and Tiffany Octavia Harris. “Youth of Color Social Movements for Racial Justice: The Politics of Interrogating the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” Educational Policy (Los Altos, Calif.), vol. 36, no. 1, 2022, pp. 57–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048211059728.

Gender and sexuality

Baumann, Jason, et al. The Stonewall Reader. Penguin Books, 2019.

Brim, Matt, and Amin Ghaziani. Imagining Queer Methods. New York University Press, 2019, https://doi.org/10.18574/9781479808557.

Erickson-Schroth, Laura. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities. Second edition., Oxford University Press, 2022.

Kumashiro, Kevin K. Troubling Education : Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy. RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.

Saraswati, L. Ayu, and Barbara L. Shaw, editors. Feminist and Queer Theory : An Intersectional and Transnational Reader. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Disability/Ability

Davis, Lennard J., et al., editors. The Disability Studies Reader. Sixth edition, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Hehir, Thomas. “Eliminating Ableism in Education.” Harvard Educational Review, vol. 72, no. 1, Apr. 2002, pp. 1–33. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.72.1.03866528702g2105.

Hirschmann, Nancy J., and Beth Linker. Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging. 1st ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290530.

Minich, Julie Avril. “Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now.” Lateral, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016. csalateral.org, https://doi.org/10.25158/L5.1.9.

Schalk, Samantha Dawn. Black Disability Politics. Duke University Press, 2022. Open WorldCat, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3358996.

DEISJ and STEM

Amon, Mary J. “Frontiers | Looking through the Glass Ceiling: A Qualitative Study of STEM Women’s Career Narratives.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 8, no. 236, Feb. 2017, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00236/full.

Bang, Megan, and Marissa Spang. “Teaching STEM In Ways That Respect and Build Upon Indigenous Peoples’ RIghts.” UW Institute for Science + Math Education, 2015. Zotero, https://stemteachingtools.org/assets/landscapes/STEM-Teaching-Tool-10-Indigenous-Peoples-Rights-in-STEM-Ed.pdf.

Clancy, Kathryn B. H., et al. “Double jeopardy in astronomy and planetary science: Women of color face greater risks of gendered and racial harassment.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, vol. 122, no. 7, 2017, pp. 1610–23. Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JE005256.

Pell, A. N. “Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Women Scientists in Academia.” Journal of Animal Science, vol. 74, no. 11, 1996, pp. 2843–48. PubMed, https://doi.org/10.2527/1996.74112843x.

Ruskai, Mary Beth. “Why Women Are Discouraged From Becoming Scientists.” The Scientist Magazine, n.d., https://www.the-scientist.com/opinion-old/why-women-are-discouraged-from-becoming-scientists-61465.

DEISJ and business

Beach, Anselm A., and Albert H. Segars. “How a Values-Based Approach Advances DEI.” MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 63, no. 4, 2022, pp. 25–32.

Kim, Daehyun, and Laura T. Starks. “Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: Do Women Contribute Unique Skills?” The American Economic Review, vol. 106, no. 5, 2016, pp. 267–71.  https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20161032.

Kirby, Erika L., and Lynn M. Harter. “Discourses of Diversity and the Quality of Work Life: The Character and Costs of the Managerial Metaphor.” Management Communication Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Aug. 2001, pp. 121–27. SAGE Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318901151008.

Moon, Kuk-Kyoung. “Examining the Relationships Between Diversity and Work Behaviors in U.S. Federal Agencies: Does Inclusive Management Make a Difference?” Review of Public Personnel Administration, vol. 38, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 218–47. SAGE Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X16660157.

Smith, Genevieve, et al. “The State of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Business School Case Studies.” Journal of Business Diversity, vol. 21, no. 3, 2021, pp. 63–83. https://doi.org/10.33423/jbd.v21i3.4430.

DEISJ and health professions

Elliott, Tiffany H. “Theory Analysis and Evaluation of Emancipatory Nursing Praxis: A Theory of Social Justice in Nursing.” International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, Feb. 2023, pp. 2047-3095.12414. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-3095.12414.

Hutchison, Jacqueline Sarah. “Anti-Oppressive Practice and Reflexive Lifeworld-Led Approaches to Care: A Framework for Teaching Nurses about Social Justice.” Nursing Research and Practice, vol. 2015, 2015, pp. 1–5. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/187508.

Johnstone, Megan-Jane, and Olga Kanitsaki. “The Neglect of Racism as an Ethical Issue in Health Care.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, vol. 12, no. 4, Aug. 2010, pp. 489–95. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-008-9210-y.

Washington, Vindell, et al. “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Clinical Research: A Path Toward Precision Health for Everyone.” Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, vol. 113, no. 3, Mar. 2023, pp. 575–84. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.2804.

White Hughton, Jaclyn M., et al. “Transgender Stigma and Health: A Critical Review of Stigma Determinants, Mechanisms, and Interventions.” Social Science & Medicine, vol. 147, Dec. 2015, pp. 222–31. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.010.

These sample working bibliographies, organized by topics relevant to the SUNY General Education Framework, have been compiled by the DEISJ Fellows from the larger Zotero bibliography. These bibliographies are sample working bibliographies, which means that they are not comprehensive nor fixed documents. They offer entry points into these topics and provide a snapshot of the Zotero bibliography

Social justice pedagogies bibliography

Student social justice movements bibliography

Gender bibliography, organized around General Education categories

Math and quantitative reasoning bibliography

Information management bibliography

These are SUNY-focused policies and resources related to the General Education DEISJ requirement.

SUNY General Education Framework

Guidance from University Faculty Senate and Faculty Council of Community Colleges to Campuses on Approving Courses for the DEISJ Requirement

DEISJ Rubric, created by the Faculty Council of Community Colleges, University Faculty Senate, and SUNY Council on Assessment

Board of Trustees policy on academic freedom

These academic freedom resources offer definitions and approaches to academic freedom.

SUNY Board of Trustees policy on academic freedom

Title I. Academic Freedom §1. Academic Freedom. It is the policy of the University to maintain and encourage full freedom, within the law, of inquiry, teaching, and research. In the exercise of this freedom, faculty members may, without limitation, discuss their own subject in the classroom; they may not, however, claim as their right the privilege of discussing in their classroom controversial matter that has no relation to their subject. The principle of academic freedom shall be accompanied by a corresponding principle of responsibility. In their role as citizens, employees have the same freedoms as other citizens. However, in their extramural utterances, employees have an obligation to indicate that they are not institutional spokespersons.

“1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure” from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

PEN America Campus Free Speech Guide

American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) resources on Speech, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom

AAC&U “Academic Freedom and Civil Discourse in Higher Education: A National Study of Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions” report

University of Massachusetts Academic Freedom Crisis Toolkit

Faculty First Responders provides information on how to respond to attacks on academic freedom

These are scholarly societies and organizations that are focused on DEISJ topics and/or provide resources on DEISJ issues related to particular disciplines.

The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)

CENTRO, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College

Latina/o Studies Association

Learning for Justice (including podcasts titled Teaching Hard History and Queer America)

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)

Association for Ethnic Studies

Racial Equity and Justice Institute

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Plug and Play DEI Programming

American Studies Association (ASA) resources on syllabi and curricula

Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) resources with sample syllabi

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) resources

National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) resource library

American Historical Association (AHA)

American Anthropological Association (AAA) resources

American Sociological Association (ASA) teaching resources

Modern Language Association (MLA) resources

American Political Science Association (APSA) resources, including sample syllabi

American Psychological Association (APA) public interest resources

American Philosophical Association (APA) resources on diversity and inclusiveness, including sample syllabi

Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) social justice toolkit with sample assignments and activities

African Studies Association (ASA)

Society for Disability Studies (SDS)

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) resources

Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) diversity, equity, and inclusion resources

Council of Science Editors (CSE) DEIA resources

American Society on Aging (ASA) DEI Library

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

American Psychiatric Association (APA)

American Medical Association (AMA) health equity resources

Advancing Indigenous People in STEM (AISES)

Black Data Processing Association (BDPA)

Blacks in Technology (BIT)

These glossaries define terms that relevant for DEISJ courses. They offer a sense of how different institutions define various terms but inclusion in this list does not mean an endorsement of one definition over another. At the same time, it is important to understand that language evolves over time as well and context matters.

Glossary of Terms from University of Pittsburgh

DEI Glossary from Cornell

Inclusion and Belonging Glossary from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington

Defining DEI from Stony Brook University

Racial Equity Tools Glossary

Key Terms and Concepts from the American Association of University Women (AAUW)