Resources

We are here for you. When you want to celebrate a career achievement or need a network of peers to lift you up, count on the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education for support. We offer resources for all the moments of our members’ work, big to small, challenging to joyful.

Connect With Your Peers

We cannot do our work alone. Gain strength from our community and connect with peers through our virtual CDO Check-ins and our Community Forum, an online space for members to share resources and seek others' perspectives on topics related to the organization, the national diversity, equity, and inclusion landscape, and other relevant issues. 

NADOHE also boasts a robust network of 18 chapters based on areas of interest and/or geographic region, and our Annual Conference offers an unmatched opportunity to meet in person with colleagues from around the country.

Advocate For Our Profession

Diversity professionals are conducting their work in a challenging environment, with calculated efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion work affecting colleges and universities nationwide. NADOHE offers resources to help members better understand the evolving legislative impacts and barriers to our work. 

We also offer the NADOHE Communication Guide, intended to help leaders in and outside higher education in highlighting truths about our work, as well as our 2023 State of the CDO Survey Report, which offers  information about the demographics, experiences, activities, and perceptions of chief diversity officers across the U.S.

Grow Your Career

NADOHE offers a variety of educational virtual events to keep its community updated on important news and policies affecting higher education.

Members can also participate in the Chief Diversity Officer Fellows Program and/or the Academic Diversity Officer Fellows Program, professional leadership programs of mentorship for new and early-career chief diversity officers and academic diversity officers. The goal of the Fellowships is to provide each fellow with mentoring from a senior-level CDO or ADO for guided professional development opportunities and experiences.

Inform Your Work

Engage in strategies for success, including our Framework for Advancing Racial Equity on Campus, which addresses 10 priority areas of concern in which diversity officers should concentrate their focus, as well as areas of effort where changes can be enacted and resources allocated at their respective institutions. The framework also poses several questions that diversity officers should consider as they implement anti-racism strategies into campus operations.

We also encourage members to use our signature Standards of Professional Practice as a guide for their work. Given the complexities of differing institutional types, missions, historical legacies, current contexts and the varied professional backgrounds and trajectories of CDOs, institu­tions will inevitably differ in the details of the application of these standards. While these Standards exist to guide the profession, the highest levels of commitment, responsibility, and account­ability reside throughout institu­tional leader­ship, in which cabinet-level CDOs serve as the principal administrators to advance diversity initiatives through highly specialized knowledge and expertise. Leaders can become proficient in these standards through our annual Standards of Professional Practice Institute, directed by leading scholars as well as faculty and administrators who have served in a senior chief diversity officer role.