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On Monday, Dr. Estela Bensimon—arguably one of the nation’s most prominent and prolific educational scholars—announced her retirement from USC and the merging of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) that she founded in 2000 with Harper’s Race and Equity Center. The merger will serve as a game changer for diversity, inclusion and equity work across the higher education landscape.

Equity initiatives only work if university leaders are on board. At least that’s the principle behind the Racial Equity Leadership Academy, a new program announced at the opening plenary of the 16th annual Achieving the Dream conference on Tuesday. Achieving the Dream, [...]

With the support of an Equity Leadership Acceleration (ELA) Grant from the Lumina Foundation, DHE partnered with the University of Southern California’s (USC) Race and Equity Center to offer professional development to all 60-plus agency employees in advancement of the Equity Agenda. DHE staff convened for a [...]

NASPA, an association for student affairs administrators, and the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center are coming together to create their first Equity Leadership Academy, an intensive four-day workshop for student affairs professionals on racial literacy. Dr. Shaun R. [...]

The country’s second-largest school district—where 82 percent of students are Latino and African American—is tapping principals to root out racial bias and inequitable practices in their schools. Los Angeles Unified School District and the Race and Equity Center at the University of [...]

A new racial equity tech tool from the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California (USC) will change the face of higher education and provide a platform for academic professionals of color to engage with potential employers and cultivate community. [...]

LOS ANGELES – Five months a­fter a group of students at DePauw University angrily confronted their college president following a string of racially charged incidents on campus, Dr. D. Mark McCoy was sitting in front of his office computer actively processing the [...]

Black citizens account for nearly 15 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S., but only comprise 9.8 percent of the full-time undergraduate population at the nation's public colleges, according to University of Southern California's Race and Equity Center.

New report from the University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center grades public institutions across the country.