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To promote social justice through our publishing, we proactively work with authors to assess each book’s coverage with diversity, equity, and inclusion as a priority. The extent of a book’s needed DEI content is specific to each course’s curriculum, so we consider a project’s coverage starting at the signing and new edition planning stages, and in all content development plans.
We conduct sensitivity reviews for every project—we ask specific questions about a manuscript’s inclusive language, breadth of scholarship, and identities represented in cases, examples, and data. Discipline-specific advisory board members, with DEI expertise, are called on for more in-depth reviewing and consultation.
We provide a range of guidelines to editors, authors, contributors, subject matter experts, and freelancers so that they can make conscious decisions about how our content—words, portrayals, framing—reflects the diversity of ability, age, race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and religious beliefs in our student audience. These guidelines encompass narrative core content as well as photo and art programs, video programs, activities, assessments, and covers.
We conduct training and workshops so that authors and editors can learn our guidelines, share their experience, and provide safe spaces to explore strategies for doing this important work.