title: Advancing diversity through inclusive excellence in nursing education.
abstract: Nurse leaders call for a more diverse nursing workforce, but too few address the concept of inclusion as a recruitment and retention strategy or as part of improving the academic learning milieu. This article addresses organizational considerations of diversity and inclusion as part of the agenda established by the Association of American Colleges and Universities for inclusive excellence, building on the idea that academic environments only become excellent when an inclusive climate is reached. Six organizational strategies to inclusion are presented from the authors' experiences, some structural and others behavioral: admissions processes, invisibility, absence of community, promotion and tenure, exclusion, and tokenism. A call for structural and behavioral adaptions within nursing education to advance an inclusive excellence agenda is presented.
authors.affiliation: Bleich-Goldfarb School of Nursing, MacWilliams & Schmidt-University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing.
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Bleich
authors.affiliation: Bleich-Goldfarb School of Nursing, MacWilliams & Schmidt-University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing.
authors.forename: Brent R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: MacWilliams
authors.affiliation: Bleich-Goldfarb School of Nursing, MacWilliams & Schmidt-University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing.. Electronic address: schmidtb@uwosh.edu.
authors.forename: Bonnie J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006280:Health Workforce; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000193:education*; D009740:Nursing Staff; D015279:Organizational Culture
keywords: Academic culture; Diversity; Inclusion; Inclusive excellence; Nursing education; Organizational behavior