From Equity Talk to Equity Walk
Teaching colleges and universities to employ equity-minded policies and practices designed specifically to create opportunity and success for racially minoritized students.
Estela Mara Bensimon
President, Bensimon & Associates
Equity-Mindedness Concept Originator
What is Equity-Mindedness?
Dr. Estela Bensimon developed the concept of equity-mindedness as a counter-narrative to perspectives attributing racial inequality in educational outcomes to student deficiencies derived from poor schooling, personal circumstances, and lack of good academic habits.
Equity-mindedness upends the narrative of deficit and reframes racialized patterns of achievement as evidence of institutional and pedagogical dysfunctions.
Read the “What is Equity-Mindedness” primer written by Dr. Bensimon to learn more about what equity-mindedness is and how it is applied in practice.
