What would anti-racist higher education look like?

For the second event in our “Reimagining Social Institutions” series, a panel of experts will be exploring what anti-racist higher education would look like. The series is a public forum created in partnership with SSRC for cultivating equitable, anti-racist social institutions. The discussions acknowledge that human behavior and outcomes are shaped by historical, political and social forces, and that lasting change today can only come from tackling the existing structures themselves. The event will be taking place on December 17, 2020.

Speakers include Richard Arum, dean of the School of Education and professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology, criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine; Shardé M. Davis, assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut. Ilyas Nagdee, Equality Charter manager at the University of Sussex, he also previously served two terms at the National Union of Students representing million students of color in colleges, universities and apprenticeships; and Noliwe Rooks, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor at Cornell University where she directs the American Studies program and is a professor in the Africana Studies department. 

The talk will be moderated by Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council and the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Why not view the first talk in the series on reimagining schools.