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The Development of a Diversity Initiative: Framework for the Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program
Author(s) -
Symonette Hazel,
Mertens Donna M.,
Hopson Rodney
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.20090
Subject(s) - internship , documentation , diversity (politics) , framing (construction) , sociology , public relations , political science , law , computer science , engineering , structural engineering , programming language
Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to provide a historical framing for the development of the American Evaluation Association's (AEA's) Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program as an outgrowth of the AEA's Building Diversity Initiative (BDI). This chapter provides historical documentation of the AEA's BDI and the origins of the GEDI program and discusses how this represents an important part of AEA's history. We discuss the circumstances that led up to the decision to begin the BDI, the organizational dynamics of bringing about the changes that BDI and GEDI stimulated in AEA and the evaluation profession, and the implications of this process for AEA's evolution as a culturally responsive organization.