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Spotlighting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anna M. Dudney Deeb (Brenau University, USA) and
Billi L. Bromer (Independent Researcher, USA)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4240-1.ch012
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges and opportunities to higher education, including a renewed focus on efforts to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. This chapter highlights some of the challenges made worse or highlighted by the pandemic, including unequal internet access, mental health disparities, teaching challenges, and barriers to student belonging. However, the authors also provide possible solutions for how to begin addressing these problems practically through community, institution, and individual instructor efforts, including practical course design and classroom strategies. The chapter ends with a discussion of future directions and conclusions for fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the higher education setting during the ongoing pandemic and beyond.