Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders facts, not fiction: Setting the record straight (2008) pdf
(Added July, 2008) The National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE), consisting of a national commission, an advisory board, and a research team at New York University, aims to engage realistic and actionable discussions about the mobility and educational opportunities for AAPIs and how distinctions of race, ethnicity, language, and other cultural factors play out in the day-to-day operations of American schools throughout the educational spectrum. In particular, this project provides needed new data on key issues and trends for the access and participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. higher education. The report focuses on three pervasive and core fictions about the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, which are examined in the context of empirical data. In addition, three issues of emerging importance are pre­sented to highlight new conversations that are surfac­ing among educators on college campuses.

Diversity Within: The Development of the Multicultural Self (podcast)
L. Lee Knefelkamp of Teachers College of Columbia University explores understandings of identity within the current diversity movement and how identity affects interactions with content and peers in the classroom. Click here for mp3 version and a complete listing of sessions from the AAC&U 2006 Diversity and Learning Conference).

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Questioning and Ally Services, University of Vermont
LGBTQA Services is one of three programs of the Diversity and Equity Unit of UVM. The program exists to assess and help the University meet the needs of: students, staff, and faculty who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; who are questioning their sexual orientation, and their allies.

Diversity Innovations/Student Development/Identity and Intellectual Development Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color
Laura I. Rendón, Mildred García, and Dawn Person, Editors
This monograph addresses some of the unique challenges and transition issues for African American, Latino/a, Asian Pacific American, American Indian/Alaska Native, and multiracial college students. Chapters address specific strategies for working with these student populations to ensure their success in the first year of college and beyond. Strategies for creating inclusive classroom environments, opportunities for intergroup and intragroup interactions, and enhancing academic and social integration are also addressed.

The Standing Committee for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Awareness, American College Personnel Association
This web site provides a wealth of educational resources regarding the experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered students on college and university campuses. The resources help campus faculty and administrators understand and address the personal and social challenges LBGT students may experience during the college-years.

Multicultural Pavilion

The Multicultural Pavilion provides resources for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education; facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness and development; and provide forums for educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education.

An Historical Overview of Theories of Non-Heterosexual Identity Development in College Students , by Patrick Dilley

This article addresses the need for college faculty leaders-but in particular student affairs practitioners-to have a more complex understanding of non-heterosexual student development theories. Deeper knowledge of these theories would be helpful for understanding issues and challenges faced by these student populations, thereby informing better policies and services to address these needs.

Diversity Leadership Transcript Program , Ohio State University

The Diversity Leadership Transcript Program (DLTP) offers interested students an opportunity to enhance their OSU experience with a concentration on diversity and leadership. DLTP stresses diversity training through coursework and experiential learning, and supports the development of reflective judgment, understanding, intellectual growth, and critical thinking on cultural identity and personal values.

Diversity Works: The Emerging Picture of How Students Benefit, by Daryl Smith

Diversity Works: The Emerging Picture of How Students Benefit is a report that analyzes the emerging research on the effects of campus diversity on students. Locating 300 separate studies on diversity in higher education, this report makes a strong case for the success and importance of diversity initiatives in supporting educational excellence throughout the campus. The executive summary includes fifteen statements about "what works" in campus diversity efforts. Ordering information is available at: pub_desk@aacu.org

Ourselves as Students: Multicultural Voices in the Classroom

This collection of eight essays, excerpted with permission from Ourselves as Students: Multicultural Voices in the Classroom, gives voice to the thoughts of working-class students, bi-racial students, Caucasian students, and other students from a range of geographical, ethnic, and other cultural regions. These short vignettes include "Regaining My Spanish Heritage" and "Society Tells Me That I Am White."

Their Voice

Brown University Alumna Marie Lee describes the changes she sees among Asian American students upon her return to the campus a decade after her own graduation. She is struck by their enhanced numbers, voice and complex webs of connection.

The Center for Women and Information Technology

The Center for Women and Information Technology, established at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1998, seeks to address and enhance the public's knowledge about the relationship between gender and information technology.

African American Studies at Iowa State University

The African American Studies program at Iowa State University is a model program that bridges the divide between student affairs and academic affairs. The program offers many classes that are small enough to allow for lively and provocative discussion. In addition, the program has developed three student-coordinated support groups: The African American Studies Society, which provides a forum for a wide range of issues, The Band of Brothers, which focuses on African American males, and The Circle of Trust, which focuses on African American females. These three groups, open to all students, enrich education by developing closer links between classroom and out-of-classroom experiences.

Ethnicity and Education Forum: What Difference Does Difference Make?, Harvard Educational Review

In December of 1996, six distinguished scholars from sociology, psychology, ethnic studies, and education came together for a live forum panel at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss issues of ethnicity, race, culture and identity and their connections to education. This edited transcript of their discussion highlights the current debates of racial and cultural identity and its relation to education.

Multiracial Student Experience: What Faculty and Campus Leaders Need to Know by Diana Alvarado, Research Associate, AAC&U

In this article from Diversity Digest, Alvarado describes that as the number of college students who self-identify as multiracial increase, these students bring with them many questions, complexities, and challenges surrounding their identities. Some campuses are taking the lead in developing curricular and co-curricular programs to help facilitate and support this development.

Religious Identity and Intellectual Development: Forging Powerful Learning Communities by Victor Kazanjian, Wellesley College

In this Diversity Digest article, Kazanjian outlines the need to examine the relationship between religious identity and intellectual development in the context of curricular and co-curricular diversity initiatives. The author explains that "as part of these intersecting dimensions of identity, the ways in which religious identity affects how students understand and interpret the world need to be understood as educational issues and need to be taken up by campus leaders both in student and in academic affairs."