TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rachel E. Friedensen
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
IS  - 1
VL  - 6
SN  - 2578-5761
TI  - Disciplining Diversity: Bureaucracy and the Reach of Institutional Policy
DO  - 10.3726/PTIHE.012024.0031
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1476977
N2  - One of the purported goals of U.S. higher education is to help people live better. However, persistent inequitable realities in college for historically marginalized groups both subvert this purpose and have a root in the limited methods that institutions have used to diversify their student bodies, faculties, and administrators as well as the policies designed to produce equitable experiences and opportunities. This paper interrogates taken-for-granted institutional tools to achieve transformational change in higher education. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s theories on discipline and biopower, I explore taken-for-granted bureaucratic avenues and approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion work as power-laden discursive moves that (re)inscribe inequality and inequity in higher education institutions.
KW  - Bureaucracy, Discourse, Diversity, Institutional Policies, Policy Discourse Analysis, Power
ER  -