Inclusive Excellence Resources

Antiracism and diversity experts from around the country have shared the following resources with UMass Amherst faculty, staff and students in learning communities and events across campus. Additional resources will be posted here as they become available.

Books

• A Guide to Course-based Undergraduate Research: Developing and Implementing CUREs in the Natural Sciences by Erin L. Dolan and Gabriela C. Weaver
• From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education by Tia Brown McNair, Estela Mara Bensimon, and Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux
• Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation by Ebony Omotola McGee
• Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education: Turning the TIDES on Inequity by Kelly Mack
• What if I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habit for Culturally Effective People by Verna Myers

Articles and Talks

• A list of practical ways non-Black faculty members can help dismantle educational equities by Viji Sathy, Kelly A. Hogan and Calvin M. Sims (Inside Higher Education)
• Lessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria? by Beronda L. Montgomery (American Society for Microbiology)
• "The Revolution Will Be Backward Designed- Inclusive Practices in the Higher Education Classroom", keynote address and presentation by Dr. Bryan Dewsbury (University of Rhode Island)