Masudul K. Biswas is a professor of the Communication Department at Loyola University Maryland. In 2023, Dr. Biswas received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship at Loyola University Maryland. He was selected as a fellow of the AEJMC’s Institute for Diverse Leadership class of 2023-24. He was the head of the AEJMC’s Minorities and Communication Division in 2015-16. His major research interests are ethnic and community news media, diversity in journalism and mass communication education, communication and development, and global media system.Dorothy M. Bland is a journalism professor and former dean at the University of North Texas Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism. In 2022, she was the recipient of the national SPJ Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award. In 2019, she was named one of the top 35 women in higher education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. During her tenure as dean, the Mayborn School of Journalism launched a master’s degree in digital communication analytics and earned the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Equity and Diversity Award. Dr. Bland has worked 25 years in the news industry, including newspapers in five states and USA Today. Diversity, digital news, media management and social media are among her research interests.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Diversity Education FrameworkChapter 2. DEI Culture and Leadership of JMC ProgramsChapter 3. Diversity in Journalism and Mass Communication CurriculumChapter 4. Diversity Across JMC Curricula and Inclusive Teaching PracticesChapter 5. Digital Pedagogy in Teaching DiversityChapter 6. Student Enrollment Diversity and Student Media/ActivitiesChapter 7. Diversity in Faculty, Research and Professional DevelopmentChapter 8. JMC Education and Industry ConnectionsChapter 9. Journalism and Mass Communication Programs’ Response to the Summer of 2020: An Analysis Through an Anti-Racism LensChapter 10. ConclusionsBibliographyIndexAbout the Authors

What is happening with diversity, equity and inclusion in journalism and mass communication programs in the United States? Biswas and Bland provide us with clear and concrete answers. Their timely and rigorously researched book also offers journalism educators and administrators necessary roadmaps and strategies for moving DEI forward in ways that seek to promote positive social change.