Other Featured Diversity Resources
- Attrition and Retention
- Departmental Climate
- Key Issues and Best Practices
- Mentoring
- Underrepresented Groups
- Workforce and Careers
(Note: More resources like these can be found in our Diversity Bibliography). For suggestions or if you would like your work featured on this page, please send an e-mail to Astrid Ng, ang@aag.org).
New! Please see the AAG's 32 Ideas to Enhance Diversity in Your Geography Department or Program.
Attrition and Retention
Minority Student Retention: Resources for Practitioners (Seidman, 2005)
Promoting Diversity: Recommendations for Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in Higher Education (Dumas-Hines, Cochran, Williams, 2001).
University of Washington Study of Attrition and Retention 2006 (Pitre, Beyer, Lemire, Snyder, 2006).
Departmental Climate
Differing Perceptions: How Students of Color and White Students Perceive Campus Climate for Underrepresented Groups (Rankin, Reason, 2005)
Nine Themes in Campus Racial Climates and Implications for Institutional Transformation (Harper, Hurtado, 2007)
Making a Real Difference with Diversity: A Guide to Institutional Change (Clayton-Pederson, Parker, Smith, Moreno, Teraguch, 2007)
Key Issues and Best Practices
Outcomes of High Impact Practices for Underserved Students: A Review of the Literature (American Association of Colleges and Universities)
Diversity Recruitment Marketing Best Practices Checklist: A Compilation of the Most Effective Marketing Strategies for Diversity Recruitment (De Morsella, 2007) (free checklist at this link)
Enhancing Diversity in Science: A Retreat on the Role of Professional Associations and Scientific Societies (Consortium of Social Science Associations)
Key Issues in the Persistence of Underrepresented Minority Students: New Directions for Institutional Research (Carter, 2006)
Mentoring
Effective Mentoring in Geography (Hardwick, Shelley, 2007)
Expectations and Perceptions of Undergraduate Research Mentoring: Comparing First Generation, Low Income White/Caucasion and African American Students (Ishiyama, 2007)
Mentoring: A New Approach to Geography Teacher Preparation (Bednarz, Bockenhauer, Walk, 2005)
Underrepresented Groups
Applications of a GIS Program to Tribal Research: It's Benefits, Challenges, and Extensions to the Community (Mannel, Winkelman, Phelps, Road, Fredenberd, 2007)
Learning Better Together: The Impact of Learning Communities on the Persistence of Low-Income Students (Engstrom, Tinto, 2008)
To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering (National Research Council, 2006) (summary here)
Workforce and Careers
From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers (Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, 2001)
Understanding Interventions that Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers: Summary Major Questions and Appropriate Methods (Fagen, Labov, 2007)
