This article provides a new perspective to help public affairs faculty with diversity management. In the context of the need for faculty to consciously address diversity issues and develop methods for managing diversity, we consider courses as organizations that have social structures, technologies, goals, participants, and environmental contexts, and examine each organizational element in order to develop insights and diagnostic questions. The model of the course as an organization, insights for managing diversity, and questions for course design and delivery offer tools for faculty to deal with diversity while teaching a variety of public affairs courses.
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