From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education

Tia Brown McNair · Estela Mara Bensimon · Lindsey Malcolm-Piqueux

Feb 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Janina Edwards

About this audiobook

From Equity Talk to Equity Walk offers practical guidance on the design and application of campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes. Drawing from campus-based research projects, this invaluable resource provides real-world steps that reinforce primary elements for examining equity in student achievement, while challenging educators to specifically focus on racial equity as a critical lens for institutional and systemic change. Colleges and universities have placed greater emphasis on education equity in recent years. Acknowledging the changing realities and increasing demands placed on contemporary postsecondary education, this book meets educators where they are and offers an effective design framework for what it means to move beyond equity being a buzzword in higher education. Central concepts and key points are illustrated through campus examples. This indispensable guide presents academic administrators and staff with advice on building an equity-minded campus culture, aligning strategic priorities and institutional missions to advance equity, understanding equity-minded data analysis, developing campus strategies for making excellence inclusive, and moving from a first-generation equity educator to an equity-minded practitioner.

About the author

Tia Brown McNair is vice president for diversity, equity, and student success and executive director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Centers at AAC&U. She directs several national initiatives on equity and leads AAC&U's Summer Institutes on TRHT Campus Centers.

Estela Mara Bensimon is Dean's Professor in Educational Equity at the USC Rossier School of Education. She is founder and director of the Center for Urban Education and is the creator of the Equity Scorecard.

Lindsey Malcolm-Piqueux leads the Office of Institutional Research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and is a Senior Scholar Affiliate of the Center for Urban Education. Her scholarly research focuses on understanding the institutional conditions that advance racial and gender equity in STEM fields.

Janina Edwards, a graduate of New York University's Tisch Schools of the Arts, recorded her first audiobook in 1987. She is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, as well as a finalist for the Audie Award. In addition to narrating audiobooks, she is a certified yoga teacher, sings kirtan, and plays the violin.