Open AccessTracking POD 's Engagement with Diversity: A Content Analysis of To Improve the Academy and POD Network Conference Programs From 1977 to 2011
Author(s) -
Grooters Stacy E.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/tia2.20008
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , inclusion (mineral) , point of delivery , tracking (education) , library science , psychology , political science , sociology , social science , pedagogy , computer science , biology , agronomy , law
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 < .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.