Ten strategies for advancing race-conscious higher education policies¶

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Description¶

The report lays out ten implementable strategies for institutions, states, and the federal government, stating "Here are 10 strategies for advancing race-conscious policies that are designed to lead to racial equity in higher education." They include holistic race-conscious admissions, reducing reliance on traditional merit measures, race-disaggregated data, removing state bans, statewide racial equity attainment goals, equitable funding, investment in minority-serving institutions, funding-gap conditions on federal partnerships, race-conscious debt relief, and accreditor review of campus racial climate.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Institutions, state leaders, and federal policymakers willing to explicitly address race in policy design

Constraints¶

• Some strategies such as statewide race-conscious attainment goals are described as possible even in states with affirmative action bans, while others such as affirmative action admissions require removing those bans

Target Learners¶

• Black students and students of color in higher education

Target Learning Goals¶

• Equitable access to and completion of higher education
• Closing racial equity gaps in opportunity and outcomes

Claims¶

Related Strategies¶

• Four actions for campus leaders and policymakers to increase Black student access at selective private institutions: develop recruitment strategies, assess and improve campus racial climates, leverage federal accountability, and increase accreditor accountability.
• Institutional, state, and federal actions to increase faculty diversity

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Tiffany Jones and Andrew Howard Nichols. (2020). Hard Truths: Why Only Race-Conscious Policies Can Fix Racism in Higher Education. The Education Trust. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED603265