Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2014

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2014) 33(2)

http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/tia.17063888.0033.201

Comments

Copyright 2014, the author. Open access

License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

This study examines the degree to which sessions from the annual Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network Conference and articles from To Improve the Academy engage questions of diversity. The titles and abstracts of 3,946 conference sessions and 560 journal articles were coded for presence and type of diversity. A significant variation in inclusion of diversity over time was found for the conference sessions (p < 0.001) but not the journal articles. Overall, the findings suggest that the organization has been inconsistent in its scholarly engagement with diversity and should work to encourage more regular engagement with diversity by its members.

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