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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.

New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences.

USC has hired a leading expert on campus diversity and racial equity to launch a new research center on campus. Shaun R. Harper will join the USC Rossier School of Education in July as a professor and founder of the USC Race [...]