Organizational Development and Change
The Organizational Development and Change page contains models, resources, and best practices for organizational change. As we develop our capacity to serve a diverse society, we must also evolve our Extension system to one which will nurture and sustain our efforts to be effective in honoring the differences among us.
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Making Excellence Inclusive is designed to help colleges and universities fully integrate their diversity and educational quality efforts and embed them into the core of academic mission and institutional functioning. Through this initiative, the Association of American Colleges and Universities re-envisions diversity and inclusion as a multi-layered process through which we achieve excellence in learning; research and teaching; student development; institutional functioning; local and global community engagement; workforce development; and more. http://www.aacu.org/inclusive_excellence/index.cfm
- Organizational Climate: Conducting a Climate Assessment (pdf)
- Source: Susan Rankin, Principal & Senior Research Associate, Rankin & Associates, Consulting. Conducting a climate assessment is one of the first steps toward creating an effective multicultural organization.
- Assessing Organizational Climate - Part I (pdf)
- PowerPoint Presentation given by Susan Rankin at CASD/CASE 2005 National Diversity Conference
Exploring…
- research, paradigms and best practices
- challenges and opportunities
- connections between organizational change and reaching diverse audiences
Organizational Change Section Editor:
Teresa Curtis
University of Wisconsin-Madison
(608) 262-3427
