Pursuing Transformative Inclusion in Higher Education: Becoming Community

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Pursuing Transformative Inclusion in Higher Education shares the story of the Becoming Community Initiative, a multi-year effort to pursue transformative inclusion on college campuses. The concept of transformative inclusion posits that true inclusion across higher education requires dismantling oppressive structures and an ongoing process of co-creating community. The contributors share the vision of transformative inclusion and Becoming Community, grounding theoretical frameworks, and how they implemented and communicated this inspiring vision. The book then highlights three main prongs of change through Professional Development Practitioner Certificate Programs, Research and Practice Projects, and Dialogue and Contemplative Action Groups, along with inclusive evaluation. Through this work, Amanda Macht Jantzer, Anna Mercedes, and Brandyn Woodard hope to inspire others to engage a broad coalition of changemakers and to establish an ongoing web of influence to begin to dismantle oppression and foster inclusive community formation in colleges and universities.

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"This book offers wise reflections from a team committed to transformative inclusion over the course of a rapidly changing social context for such work. The authors recognize the particular peril of taking on this work at this time, but they do not hedge. The book places an emphasis on institutional accountability to its students and mission--still, the book contains chapters of concrete utility for faculty, staff, and institutional leaders with strong programmatic models. While all authors make important contributions, former St. Ben's president Mary Dana Hinton's reflections provide particularly incisive and inspirational analysis of higher education's current challenges and opportunities. "

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Amanda Macht Jantzer is associate professor of psychology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint Johns University.
Anna Mercedes is professor of theology and gender studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint Johns University.
Brandyn Woodard has a masters degree in Human Resources Development and is currently Vice President of Equity and Inclusion at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and Anoka Technical College.