Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs

Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs: Advancing Social Justice and Inclusion is the long-awaited revision and expansion of the 2004 groundbreaking book, Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs . Although the literature and practice on social justice and inclusion in higher education has matured since the initial book was published, these issues have grown in complexity, and campus administrators still struggle to create multicultural and socially just campuses that welcome, include, and engage all students. More often than not, practitioners, administrators, and faculty still receive limited or ineffective training that helps them to actually develop the awareness, knowledge, and skills to work effectively with all students. Moreover, they receive even less training that would help them address the organizational, structural, power, and privilege issues that prevent the creation of multicultural and socially just campuses. Fortunately, Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs: Advancing Social Justice and Inclusion examines all of these issues, guiding readers who want to develop their multicultural and social justice competencies and enact change at the individual, group, and institutional levels. Like its classic predecessor, this book presents a comprehensive portrait of both the competencies necessary for effective student affairs practice and how each of those competencies must be infused with multicultural awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions. Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs: Advancing Social Justice and Inclusion offers an updated version of the Dynamic Model of Student Affairs Competence--the principal conceptual element of the book--which is now more closely aligned with the ACPA NASPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Educators. This book also highlights the action steps--built on requisite awareness, knowledge, and skills within each competency--that are needed to create the multicultural campuses we seek. Written by Raechele Pope, Amy Reynolds, and John Mueller--all recognized by their peers as authorities on multicultural competence, social justice, and creating multicultural campus environments--this important book is based on the authors' years of practice, teaching, research, and consulting Comprehensive in scope, Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs: Advancing Social Justice and Inclusion contains the most current theory, useful models, and research-based findings. Additionally, this book offers practical strategies, best practice exemplars, and case studies to help the reader more clearly recognize both the challenges and potential solutions.