Diversity Plans Can’t Breathe without AIIR: Building a High-Caliber Diversity Initiative

Abstract

For one intensive month this summer, we participated in an online leadership development program, the National Inclusive Excellence Leadership Academy (NIXLA), with nearly 100 leaders from across the country. The twin goals of the program were to hone our strategic diversity leadership skills and strengthen our best-practice too kit of resources, frameworks, and tactics for leading real change that we can see and feel on our campuses in the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion.