Examines how undergraduate students who became social justice allies during college understood their development. Results reveal that critical factors included pre-college egalitarian values, gaining information about social justice issues, engagement in meaning-making processes, developing confidence and the presentation of opportunities to act…

Extrapolating from current developmental theory and using practice-to-theory/theory-to-practice methods, the authors propose a framework for individual diversity development among faculty, staff, and students. The model offers individuals in-depth cognitive, affective and behavioral frameworks of development toward consciously valuing complex and…