Bensimon and Associates has a series of free online tools that practitioners can immediately use to begin or strengthen racial equity efforts on their campuses.
CUE’s Racial Equity Tools
Under the direction of Dr. Estela Bensimon, The Center for Urban Education has created a suite of racial equity tools to change the minds, hearts, and practices of faculty, staff and leaders to achieve racial equity in higher education. CUE’s Racial Equity Tools can be categorized into four phases:
Laying the Groundwork
Defining the Problem
Creating Solutions Through Inquiry
Sustaining and Scaling the Work
Dr. Bensimon Discusses CUE’s Racial Equity Tools
Implicit Bias In Action
Implicit bias, also known as implicit prejudice or implicit attitude, is a negative attitude, of which one is not consciously aware, against a specific social group.
Implicit bias is thought to be shaped by experience and based on learned associations between particular qualities and social categories, including race and/or gender. Individuals’ perceptions and behaviors can be influenced by the implicit biases they hold, even if they are unaware they hold such biases.
Implicit bias is an aspect of implicit social cognition: the phenomenon that perceptions, attitudes, and stereotypes can operate prior to conscious intention or endorsement.
Whiteness Rules Toolkit
This toolkit is part of a bigger project examining how existing presidential search policies and practices result in limited racial diversity among college and university presidents and racial inequity in who can become a college president.
Explaining Systemic Racism
“I’VE NEVER BENEFITTED FROM RACISM!”
Historic laws and practices created unfair advantages for white people while disadvantaging Black, Latinx, Asian American, and Indigenous communities.
These past injustices still influence how people are treated in education, jobs and the justice system today - unfairly advantaging or disadvantaging communities based on race/ethnicity.
To be equity-minded, we must recognize and dismantle this systemic racism and inequality.
Cartoon by B. Deutsch, patreon.com/Barry
What is Equity-Mindedness?
A primer for practitioners on what the concept of Equity-Mindedness means by Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon, the originator of the equity-mindedness concept.
Five Principles for Enacting Equity by Design
In this Faculti interview, Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon discusses the five principles for enacting equity by design.
Master Class: An Introduction to Equity-Mindedness
In this Master Class, Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon provides an in-depth overview of equity-mindedness and how college and university faculty can become equity-minded leaders.
This Master Class was produced by The Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network out of the University of Chicago in 2022.
Why Race?
Understanding the Importance of Foregrounding Race and Ethnicity in Achieving Equity on College Campuses
Author, Dr. Cheryl D. Ching for the Center for Urban Education
Why Race? is a resource designed for practitioners who, in looking at
issues of equity, are confronted with the question of why equity should
be understood in terms of race rather than income. This resource aims
to provide participants with responses to common questions regarding
the focus on racial equity. It features a vignette between a college
president and a Center for Urban Education Equity Scorecard™ team
member, highlighting the conversations that can occur between higher
education practitioners.
