From Equity Talk to Equity Walk - by Tia Brown McNair & Estela Mara Bensimon & Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux (Hardcover)

About the Book

"AAC&U launched its Making Excellence Inclusive (MEI) initiative in 2002 as a framework with four primary objectives: a focus on student intellectual and social development, a purposeful development and utilization of organizational resources to enhance student learning, a call for attention to the cultural difference learners bring to educational experiences, and a welcoming community that engages all of its diversity in the service of student and organizational learning. More recently, postsecondary educators have started to ask more critical and practical questions related to education equity and engaged learning pedagogies. The new emphasis on equity addresses the changing realities and increasing demands on higher education for accountability and completion goals. Sponsorship: AAC&U will help promote, resell, and launch the book at its annual conference. Hot Topic: Making Excellence Inclusive (MEI) is AAC&U's guiding principle for access, student success, and high-quality learning. MEI is designed to assist colleges integrate diversity, equity, and educational efforts into their institutional operations. Active Authors: Authors hold a conference session at AAC&U's annual meeting that approximately 2,000 higher education leaders attend. This is one strategy for promotion along with the email blasts to AAC&U's network of 65,000 educators and ads in their personal periodicals (Diversity & Democracy, Peer Review, and Liberal Education)"--

Book Synopsis

A practical guide for achieving equitable outcomes

From Equity Talk to Equity Walk offers practical guidance on the design and application of campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes. Drawing from campus-based research projects sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California, this invaluable resource provides real-world steps that reinforce primary elements for examining equity in student achievement, while challenging educators to specifically focus on racial equity as a critical lens for institutional and systemic change.

Colleges and universities have placed greater emphasis on education equity in recent years. Acknowledging the changing realities and increasing demands placed on contemporary postsecondary education, this book meets educators where they are and offers an effective design framework for what it means to move beyond equity being a buzzword in higher education. Central concepts and key points are illustrated through campus examples. This indispensable guide presents academic administrators and staff with advice on building an equity-minded campus culture, aligning strategic priorities and institutional missions to advance equity, understanding equity-minded data analysis, developing campus strategies for making excellence inclusive, and moving from a first-generation equity educator to an equity-minded practitioner.

From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: A Guide for Campus-Based Leadership and Practice is a vital wealth of information for college and university presidents and provosts, academic and student affairs professionals, faculty, and practitioners who seek to dismantle institutional barriers that stand in the way of achieving equity, specifically racial equity to achieve equitable outcomes in higher education.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR FROM EQUITY TALK TO EQUITY WALK

"Achieving equity in higher education requires clarity of purpose and sustained, purposeful action. The authors of this important new book are steeped in years of experience in both and provide us with insights, information, tactics and strategies presented so readers may move at their own pace. And move we must to make colleges and universities learning environments for all our students to thrive."
--Sarita E. Brown, President, Excelencia in Education

"No one at any college or university ought to claim a serious commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion without first reading this important book and skillfully implementing its authors' smart recommendations. It overflows with conceptual brilliance, credible evidence, and practically useful strategies."
--Shaun R. Harper, Provost Professor and Executive Director, University of Southern California Race and Equity Center

"From Equity Talk to Equity Walk is a master class on moving from the theory of the case for equity, to the expansive action that facilitates equity-mindedness, creates an equitable perspective of the way forward in higher education, and measures equitable outcomes for students. McNair, Bensimon and Malcom-Piqueux take the reader through the academic scholarship on equity and the practical application of the same through their direct, unapologetic approach on the matter and first-hand recounting of case studies of their direct work with hundreds of institutions, all in an effort to meet the reader where they are on their equity journey. From Equity Talk to Equity Walk serves as a confirming love letter for the duly-initiated equity walkers as well as a guide and a handbook for the newly-initiated equity talkers!"
--Yolanda Watson Spiva, PHD, President, Complete College America

About the Author

TIA BROWN MCNAIR is Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at AAC&U. McNair directs several national initiatives on equity and student success and leads AAC&U's Summer Institutes on TRHT Campus Centers and High-Impact Practices and Student Success.

ESTELA MARA BENSIMON is Dean's Professor in Educational Equity at the USC Rossier School of Education. She is founder and Director of the Center for Urban Education and is the creator of the Equity Scorecard.

LINDSEY MALCOM-PIQUEUX leads the Office of Institutional Research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and is a Senior Scholar Affiliate of the Center for Urban Education. Her scholarly research focuses on understanding the institutional conditions that advance racial and gender equity in STEM fields.