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"Equity is...
a caring way of thinking, acting and distributing resources."
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"Equity is...
color conscious policies, practices and leadership."
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"Equity is ...
obtaining equal outcomes."
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"Equity is...
not synonymous with equality."
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CUE Co-Director, Estela Mara Bensimon
Equity is more than a buzzword for Estela Mara Bensimon. A professor at the USC Rossier School of Education
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CUE Co-Director, Alicia C. Dowd
“What can and should colleges and universities do to reduce social and economic inequities?” A research agenda of this
Welcome
CUE’s research team pioneered a multi-disciplined inquiry approach that is helping higher education institutions across the country become more accountable to students from underserved racial and ethnic communities. CUE publishes reports and papers on a range of topics related to equity and accountability, the appropriate use of inquiry methods, the transformation of institutional data into useable knowledge, and the role of faculty and administrators in organizational change.
Mission Statement
The Center for Urban Education (CUE) leads socially conscious research and develops tools needed for institutions of higher education to produce equity in student outcomes.
What's New
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CUE Presents State Transfer Policy Paper at ASHE
Researchers from the Center for Urban Education presented "Formulating Equity in State Transfer Policy: An Analysis of Seven States" on Nov. 5 at the 2009 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Conference that was held in Vancouver, British... ...[more]
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'Critical' Convenings of Scholars and Policy Analysts Seeks Equity, Advocacy
Throughout the summer, a select group of faculty, policy analysts and doctoral students gathered at a series of multi-day workshops as part of the ASHE Institutes on Equity and Critical Policy Analysis. Five institutes were launched this summer, as part... ...[more]
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'Critical' Training: Equity Scholars Advocate Use of Participatory Critical Action Research to Reduce Racial Gaps
Led by the USC Center for Urban Education and others, scholars and policy analysts from around the country have been gathering this summer to remedy one of higher education’s most intractable problems: closing the “race gap” among four-year degree earners... ...[more]
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CUE Equity Model Transforms Community College District
For some community college students, the gap between what they learned in high school and what they need to know and succeed in college credit courses is a vast one. Bridging that divide is basic skills education, which is also... ...[more]
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