Colleges and universities need leaders to initiate and promote strategic initiatives that encourage inclusivity but denounce bigotry and prejudice. At Sacred Heart, the university president began a zero tolerance policy for racial injustice by putting up posters around campus that publicitized the importance of inclusivity and the rejection of prejudice. Now, whenever a racial incident […]

Creating an environment where students of color can be heard to educate and inform their peers will enhance higher ed’s goal to help students take a more active role in the world that promotes human dignity and the common good. For example, Sacred Heart is giving black students a voice in an upcoming Heart Challenges […]

“The main task of any college or university is education,” says Loris, “education for our students, our faculty, and our local communities to bring knowledge, reason, understanding, meaning and values to the whole human community.” To provide a more holistic understanding of racial injustices, higher ed should recruit faculty of color to bring their voices, […]

  Higher ed should deliver a steady stream of events and other opportunities to bring faculty, administrators and students together to discuss and take positive action about racial injustice and white privilege, says Michelle Loris, associate dean of Curriculum and Special Projects for the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of Catholic Studies at […]

Higher ed needs to embed curricula that provide the history of racial injustice to help students grapple with current events and to prevent bigotry. “There are many people who are surprised when they see events transpire like the George Floyd protests, but if they were students of history and understood past social movements, they would […]

The protests that continue to mobilize around the globe in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd have put a renewed and more prominent focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and the racial injustices facing African-Americans in the U.S.

Individuals can fund causes that help bail out and provide supplies for protesters. “Even though many of us can’t be a part of protests physically, we can at least be a part of them fiscally,” says Wendi Williams, dean of the School of Education at Mills College. “But it is also important to recognize what […]

University and college fundraising could drop dramatically to or below levels experienced during the Great Recession, as a result of complications relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.