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Center for Social Equity + Inclusion Action Plan
Full text linkArt and design have far-reaching capacities for generating shared language and connecting people and communities. The creative forms we study at RISD are powerful means for conveying ideas and shaping experiences across habituated boundaries. Today we see those forms resonate more than ever before in the multilingual, culturally heterogeneous, digitally interconnected spaces around the globe. In fact, the democratization of communications media has made it possible for long marginalized voices to join and substantively transform our public discourses. The resulting body of critical knowledge has focused attention on interlocking systems of privilege and disenfranchisement entrenched throughout our social institutions, including those of higher education. In response, numerous institutions have worked to counteract the systemic forces of bias and inequality, but these efforts have produced, more often than not, only limited effects, especially when seen in the context of more rapid cultural changes in society at large. This differential between intent and outcomes has added a new level of urgency to the conversation on issues of diversity, identity, inclusion, access, agency, and equity in the halls of American higher education. The following Center for Social Equity and Inclusion (SEI) Action Plan provides the RISD community with an historic opportunity to carefully and systematically address those issues, and realize a forward-looking example for other institutions to follow.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/president_sei_actionplan/1000/thumbnail.jp
Fostering Social Equity with Automated Vehicles (Research Brief)
No full textThis research brief summarizes the highlights and findings for research report CTS 22-01, Advancing Social Equity with Shared Autonomous Vehicles: Literature Review, Practitioner Interviews, and Stated Preference Surveys. This research was funded as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Smart and Connected Communities grant, Leveraging Autonomous Shared Vehicles for Greater Community Health, Equity, Livability, and Prosperity (HELP).Center for Transportation Studies. (2022). Fostering Social Equity with Automated Vehicles (Research Brief). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/227820
Fact Sheet: Benefits of the Pennsylvania Dream Act
No full textTemple University. James E. Beasley School of LawThis article details how implementing in-state tuition equity and financial aid for undocumented students via the Pennsylvania DREAM Act will benefit the students and the state
2024 Lender Center Conversation: Seeking Racial Equity in the Entertainment Industry -- Event Information
No full textA press release for the 2024 Lender Center Conversation: “Seeking Racial Equity in the Entertainment Industry” event
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Improving the Odds: Increasing Opportunities in Austin
Full text linkThe City of Austin has a history of attempting to address equity, starting with the Austin Equity
Commission, led by Chair Ray Marshall, which delivered a report in 2001 titled, “Improving the Odds:
Increasing Opportunities in Austin.”3 The Austin Equity Commission (AEC) was created by the Austin
City Council and appointed by Mayor Kirk Watson in May 2000. The Commission's mandate was to
“build consensus around a strategic vision for long-range economic prosperity and social equity for
all.” The commission examined seven highly interrelated subjects in depth: wages, education,
workforce development, affordable housing, early education and care, community health, and
transportation.City of AustinRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
Ensuring Equity and Excellence for English Learners: An Annotated Bibliography for Research, Policy, and Practice
Full text linkEnsuring Equity and Excellence for English Learners: An Annotated Bibliography for Research, Policy, and Practice is comprised of over 350 annotations from both recent and seminal literature (released between 1984–2021) that have significant implications for research, policy, and practice for English learner (EL) linguistic, social, and academic achievement. This annotated bibliography serves as a resource for researchers, policymakers, educators, and advocates who are working for equity and excellence for ELs.
The authors provide a comprehensive selection of works focused on theory, research, and practice. The annotations are a result of purposeful searches of 23 topics in empirical and theoretical articles from peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, and reports from leading scholars in the field. Among the topics addressed relevant to EL education are broad areas such as: bilingual teacher preparation, teaching and professional development, university and district partnerships, digital learning for ELs, social emotional development, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and English Language Development (ELD) for elementary and secondary level students. The Integrated ELD (content instruction) topic is subcategorized according to specific disciplines including: English language arts, history, mathematics, science, visual & performing arts, and STEM.
In order to provide additional information for readers, each annotation includes: (1) the source description (e.g., book, journal article, report), (2) type of source (e.g., empirical, guidance, theoretical), and (3) keywords.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ceel_annotatedbibliographies/1001/thumbnail.jp
Foreword: Under Attack And Counter Voices For Social Justice
Full text linkAs the voices of ignorance continue to attack democracy and social justice, we will continue to serve as a platform to counter those perspectives through the Center for Leadership, Equity and Research (CLEAR). Activism, anti-racism, and advocacy for the oppressed will continue to be the mission. We embrace Critical Race Methodology and Praxis that remain the driving epistemologies for the stories, research genres, authentic narratives, and counterstories of those who have been largely marginalized, racialized, and underrepresented
Equity in Vaccination: A Plan to Work with Communities of Color Toward COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond
Full text linkThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had tragic and disproportionate adverse
effects on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities across the United States.
The number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths related to this disease is significantly higher in
these groups. Additionally, members of BIPOC communities are among those hit the hardest by the
economic and social upheavals caused by the pandemic.Executive Summary
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had tragic and disproportionate adverse
effects on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities across the United States.
The number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths related to this disease is significantly higher in
these groups. Additionally, members of BIPOC communities are among those hit the hardest by the
economic and social upheavals caused by the pandemic.
As the COVID-19 vaccination campaign begins, it is critical that vaccines be delivered fairly and
equitably—so that everyone has the same level of access to this lifesaving technology. Just as pressing
is the need to address longstanding disparities that have created the unequal situation that BIPOC
communities are now in.
This plan provides elected and appointed officials with the tools to create, implement, and support a
vaccination campaign that works with BIPOC communities to remedy COVID-19 impacts, prevent
even more health burdens, lay the foundation for unbiased healthcare delivery, and enable broader
social change and durable community-level opportunities.Suggested citation: Schoch-Spana M, Brunson E, Hosangadi D, Long R, Ravi S, Taylor M, Trotochaud
M, Veenema TG on behalf of the Working Group on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination. Equity in
Vaccination: A Plan to Work with Communities of Color Toward COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security; 2021.https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/equity-in-vaccinatio
MLK 2019: Gina Belafonte
No full text2019 MLK Series guest speaker, Gina Belafonte lecture The Beloved Community January 8th, 2019 at the Metcalf Auditorium, Chase Center, RISD 7:00 pm. The Center for Social Equity and Inclusion (SEI) welcomes you to a conversation with Gina Belafonte inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s popularized notion of the “Beloved Community,” focusing on the pivotal and complex social issues facing our communities and how we can address them through art making.
Poster designed by FAVOR Design & Communications.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentaffairs_MLK_posters/1050/thumbnail.jp
2019 MLK Keynote Address: Cornel West
No full text2019 MLK Series Keynote Cornel West lecture Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 7:00pm, RISD Auditorium,17 Canal Walk, Providence RI. The Center for Social Equity and Inclusion (SEI) welcomes 2019 MLK Series Keynote speaker Cornel West, a professor, philosopher, author and activist. West is professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and a professor emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, and the University of Paris and has written and edited many books about race and democracy, including Race Matters, Democracy Matters and the memoir Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at visionary 19th- and 20th-century African American leaders and their legacies. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. He made his film debut in the Matrix and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in more than 25 documentaries and films, including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk and Stand.
In communicating with a vast variety of publics, West is committed to keeping alive Martin Luther King, Jr.\u27s legacy of truth-telling and bearing witness to love and justice
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