List of USC Race & Equity Center News
Center Launches Campaign to Fight Anti-DEI Efforts
Establishing the National DEI Defense Fund is one of many ways the USC Race and Equity Center is countering politicized efforts to ban books, eliminate diversity and inclusion educational programs, and suppress the teaching of truths about America’s racial past and present. [...]
K-12 Racial Equity Leadership Labs Series Reaches Educators Across Los Angeles County
In the Spring of 2023, the USC Race and Equity Center’s K12 Programs offered a free professional learning series to a cohort of principals, assistant principals, and instructional leaders across Los Angeles County. The primary goal of the K-12 Racial Equity Leadership [...]
K-12 Practice Brief Release
This report is intended for every K-12 school district and all schools across America. It introduces some reflective questions, eight practical leadership strategies for K-12 leaders advancing racial equity, and numerous concrete actions that will deepen and sustain racial equity initiatives [...]
Pascarella and Silva Present a Theory of Change for Race-Conscious Leadership Development at AERA
On April 16, 2023, USC Race and Equity Center Chief Academic Officer John Pascarella and Associate Director Erica Silva presented a theory of change for race-conscious professional development programs designed to prepare school leaders to more effectively advance and sustain racial equity [...]
Harper, Emdin Ranked Among Most Influential
The 200 most influential professors in the field of education are ranked in Education Week each year. Two center scholars, Shaun Harper and Chris Emdin, are ranked #4 and #49, respectively, in the 2023 rankings released today. Harper has been on the [...]
President Biden Appoints USC Professor Shaun Harper to National Board
Photo credit: Adrián Trinidad Today, The White House announced that President Joe Biden has named University of Southern California Professor Shaun Harper to the National Board for Education Sciences. The 15-member Board approves research priorities for the Institute of Education [...]
Kimbrough, Two-Time HBCU President Joins USC Race and Equity Center
Walter M. Kimbrough has spent the past 18 years serving as president of two Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Philander Smith College (2004 - 2012) and Dillard University (2012 -2022). Prior to ascending to the presidency at age 37, he was Vice [...]
Two Honorary Doctorates to Harper
Shaun Harper, founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center, completed his first doctorate, a Ph.D. from Indiana University, 20 years ago. In 2017, Governors State University was the first institution to award him the Doctor of Humane Letters, [...]
U.S. Department of Education Grant to Johnson and HBCU Collaborators
Royel M. Johnson, the USC Race and Equity Center’s Director of Student Engagement, is on a team that has been awarded a $1,533,384 grant from the United States Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES). These funds will support the University [...]
