Leading for Equity at a Time of Backlash
Julia Chinyere Oparah • Founder and Executive Director • Center for Liberated Leadership • Oakland, CA
November 14, 2024
Racial Justice
Game of Chairs: DEI, Campus Climate, and Professional Development in Netflix’s The Chair
Gordon Alley-Young, Ph.D. • Dean of Faculty, Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost • Kingsborough Community College – CUNY • Brooklyn, NY
Cynthia Olvina, M.S. • Academic Affairs Manager, Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost • Kingsborough Community College – CUNY • Brooklyn, NY
November 14, 2024
Netflix’s The Chair is set in the fictional Pembroke College where DEI efforts are perfunctory, conflicts are mismanaged, and chair leadership training is nonexistent. An entertaining dramedy, the series’ astute critique of higher education struggles with listening, tackling systemic inequity, and fully engaging the digital age makes the series perhaps more relevant today than when it first streamed in 2021. Read more >
The Academy and the Pandemic of Protest: How Higher Education Institutions Can Shape the Narrative toward Equity and Social Justice
Toni Sims Muhammad • Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs • Allen University • Columbia, South Carolina
Hayward Derrick Horton • Professor of Sociology • State University of New York at Albany • Albany, New York
October 22, 2020
What can our institutions—especially predominately white institutions—do to address structural social injustice and inequity? The authors offer some concrete proposals. Read more >
