Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion

Friday Forums on Racism in Higher Education

Friday Forums is a commitment to the state and region in elevating national conversations and showcasing models of disrupting complicit racism. Each session welcomes national thought leaders to lead discussions and provide opportunities for participants to share ideas on actionable items toward a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.

Jun 6, 2023

Daring to Transcend: An Unedited Version of Courageous Leadership

What comes to mind when you envision a courageous leader?

Mar 24, 2023

Ensuring Belonging for All

Recent research on belonging that has made the concept more visible and tangible, but what challenges for faculty and staff and difficulties for marginalized communities still remain?

Feb 3, 2023

Amplifying Community Engagement

How can we draw on all our resources to boost community relationships and uproot effects of injustice?

Nov 4, 2022

Securing Health Equity

Simply defined, health equity is achieved when individuals from different backgrounds and walks of life have the same health outcomes. How do we secure health equity?

Sep 30, 2022

Fostering an Inclusive Climate

If we know that people thrive in healthy, inclusive environments how do we foster them?

Apr 1, 2022

Collective Action Against Hate

How institutions are faring in the wake of the threat towards HBCUs and Black spaces at universities across the country? What can be done on a national level to support and protect spaces where Black people can thrive?

Mar 25, 2022

EDI and Professional Development

How can equity, diversity, and inclusion be incorporated into professional development for all employees of the university community?

Feb 25, 2022

How to Close Equity Gaps

Several attempts to expand and diversify higher education often place shortfalls on students and families rather than on institutional practices. Thus we continue to ask, how do we close equity gaps?

Jan 28, 2022

The Power of Belonging

“Belonging” might be the new buzzword in higher education, but the need to belong is crucial in this transitional moment in higher education.

Nov 19, 2021

Embrace Discomfort to Lead Change

Campus leaders and administrators must become courageous in their willingness to face these tense moments, listen to their constituents and others close to them, and embrace their uneasiness to create a culture of resiliency and inclusion.

Oct 22, 2021

Shared Equity Leadership

A more equitable future calls for new leadership; leadership that is inclusive and distributed among informal and formal roles, made up of leaders who share a vision and commitment to equity.

Sep 24, 2021

Leading with Equity

While we do not believe individuals set out to intentionally create inequity, we have each been socialized within a system that perpetuates inequities through its language, policies, and practices that result in our implicit and unconscious bias.

Mar 26, 2021

The Long Game: Deepening the Work

What must we do together to inspire and sustain the necessary and lasting changes in higher education?

Feb 26, 2021

Racial Equity & Philanthropy

What is philanthropy’s responsibility and role in anti-racism efforts?

Jan 29, 2021

A Call for Racial Healing

We will continue to uproot racism and plant seeds of anti-racism.

Nov 20, 2020

A Racially Just Workplace

How can we create a racially just workplace? What is needed, and how can we create a more equitable and inclusive campus?

Oct 23, 2020

Establishing Anti-Racist Policy

How do we ensure that anti-racist policies are also intersectional?

Sep 25, 2020

Confronting Our Racism

The legacies of racism that constrain us are deep and long, and we are not going to solve our discomfort with training.