Racial Equity on College Campuses

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

The current socio-political moment-rife with racial tensions and overt bigotry-has exacerbated longstanding racial inequities in higher education. While educational scholars have developed conceptual tools and offered data-informed recommendations for rooting out racism in campus policies and practices, this work is largely inaccessible to the public. At the same time, practitioners and policymakers are increasingly called on to implement quick solutions to what are, in fact, profound, structural problems. Racial Equity on College Campuses bridges this gap, marshaling the expertise of nineteen scholars and practitioners to translate research-based findings into actionable recommendations in three key areas: university leadership, teaching and learning, and student and campus life. The strategies gathered here will prove useful to institutional actors engaged in both real-time and long-term decision-making across contexts-from the classroom to the boardroom.

Royel M. Johnson is Associate Professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and the Director of Student Engagement in the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center. Uju Anya is Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil. Liliana M. Garces is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Mexican American Studies and the University of Texas School of Law. She is the coeditor (with Erica Frankenberg and Megan Hopkins) of School Integration Matters: Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity.