Considerations and Challenges of Implementing Shared Equity Leadership
College and university campuses need new and creative strategies for continuing to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals amidst today’s challenging cultural and political landscape. One such strategy is shared equity leadership (SEL), which broadly distributes responsibility for DEI work into people’s roles across campus rather than concentrating it in a single office. SEL is predicated on the idea that accomplishing DEI goals requires a collaborative and relational approach. While this approach has had success at campuses across the country, leaders faced challenges to implementation that haven’t been previously explored.