This volume addresses the role of chief diversity officers as coordinating and integrating diversity leaders in higher education and other sectors. This book begins by delineating the evolution of the chief diversity officer role in the academy.

Addressing the issue of who should be tasked to advance an institution's diversity agenda and coordinate its diversity initiatives and policies, this book asks: does the process need a chief diversity officer (CDO) to implement it? And, if it does, at what level of the organization should the position be established, and what resources and functions should it control? This book is the first to identify and define this new role.