Celebrating Five Years of Toward Inclusive Excellence: History, Evolution, and Highlights
Recorded on 03/09/2026
Posted in The Authority File
Episode 462
This month’s two-part series features Fatima Mohie-Eldin, editor of Choice Reviews and Toward Inclusive Excellence (TIE). Joining TAF host Bill Mickey, Fatima marks the fifth anniversary of Choice’s TIE blog by discussing its evolution, popular topics within its readership, and general trends in DEIA in higher education.
In this first episode, Fatima shares the history of TIE, explaining how it was created in 2021 in response to 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests with aims to provide a pool of knowledge and actionable resources related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics for academic librarians and higher education stakeholders. She highlights the contributions of former TIE editor in chief and the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) current President-Elect Alexia Hudson-Ward, including her leadership in developing TIE’s scope, podcast, webinar program, and resource lists.
Fatima also charts the shifts in TIE’s editorial approach over the past five years, such as expanding its contributor pool, releasing a new interview feature, and producing forthcoming titles lists focused specifically on DEIA and social justice issues. Last, Fatima highlights TIE content from the past year and underscores several topics she’d like the blog to dive into further in the future.
TIE Resources Mentioned in the Episode:
- Standing Firm Together: Championing the Rights of International Students
- TIE Webinar Wrap-Up: Affirmative Action and the Future of DEI
- TIE Preview of Upcoming Reads in Disability Studies, 2025
- Check out TIE‘s podcast, webinars, interviews, and resource lists
- Sign up for TIE’s weekly newsletter
About the guest:
Fatima Mohie-Eldin
Editor, Choice Reviews and Toward Inclusive Excellence (TIE)
Choice
Fatima Mohie-Eldin is an editor for the social sciences at Choice and the editor for Toward Inclusive Excellence. She holds an MA in Near Eastern studies from New York University, where she was a FLAS fellow, and a BA in international relations from Boston University. She has also studied at Boğaziçi University in Türkiye, where she was previously an ARIT summer fellow. At Choice, she solicits, edits, and curates scholarly content that supports academic librarianship.
