Daryl G. Smith is a senior research fellow and professor emerita of education and psychology at Claremont Graduate University. She is a coauthor of Making a Real Difference with Diversity: A Guide to Institutional Change and Achieving Faculty Diversity: Debunking the Myths, and the editor of Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Emerging Perspectives on Institutional Transformation.
The book is a must-read for anyone working in higher education but more specifically for individuals who are in formal leadership positions at institutions where diversity goals and values are often challenged, where strategic plans and strategies are developed and implemented, and where accountability, climate, and equity are monitored for meaningful structural change. This book offers a deep, broad, and forward-looking approach to making Diversity's Promise for Higher Education a closer, rather than a distant reality. --Review of Higher Education