Authentically bringing traditionally excluded individuals and/or groups into processes, activities and decision/policy making in a way that shares power.

MP Associates and Center for Assessment and Policy Development. (2013). www.racialequitytools.org glossary (PDF). Retrieved from http://www.racialequitytools.org/images/uploads/RET_Glossary913L.pdf.

(campus context) – Defined as the active, intentional and ongoing engagement with diversity—in the curriculum, in the co-curriculum and in communities (intellectual, social, cultural, geographical) with which individuals might connect—in ways that increase awareness, content knowledge, cognitive sophistication and empathic understanding of the complex ways individuals interact within systems and institutions.

106 Association of American Colleges and Universities. (n.d.). Making excellence inclusive. Retrieved from http://www.aacu.org/making-excellence-inclusive.