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Restoring Inmate Access to Pell Grants is an 26 Important Step in Criminal Justice Reform By Mariah Bohanon Renowned Public Policy Institute Uses Research 44 to Advocate for LGBTQ Equality By Lisa O’Malley and Mariah Bohanon HBCUs Are Becoming More Diverse — 28 But Not Everyone Considers That a Good Thing By Mariah Stewart
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U.S. Army Introduces New Grooming Code Aimed at Inclusivity
The U.S. Army recently announced a there are restrictions on the size and branch, said in a press release. “If we new set of grooming standards that are spacing of those hairstyles. The new care about people first and the Soldier designed to be more inclusive by offering policy lifts those constraints. [sic] as a whole, we have to care about soldiers some flexibility when it comes “Our identity is important,” Sgt. the many aspects of who they are as to hairstyles, makeup, and jewelry. Maj. Brian Sanders, senior enlisted well. This is a small but significant Beginning on February 25, women leader of Army G-1’s uniform policy change that positively impacts a will be allowed to wear “non-extreme” considerable size of our force.” lipstick, nail polish, and earrings. Men In addition to the grooming will be allowed to wear clear nail polish. policies, the Army also announced the Women will also have more options removal of words such as “Mohawk, when it comes to hairstyles, including Fu Manchu, dreadlock, eccentric, and highlights and ponytails as long as faddish,” from its grooming code, they “maintain a neat and professional calling the phrases “potentially offensive appearance” and the ponytail “doesn’t and weaponized.” impede the use of headgear or other “This is how we shift the culture and equipment,” according to the Army embrace forward thinking,” Sanders News Service. They will also no longer said. “It is time to dig deeper and use our have to abide by a minimum length lexicon and vocabulary to describe what requirement for hair. is authorized and what does not conform Under the Army’s current grooming to a professional military appearance, standards, soldiers are allowed to have good order, and discipline.”● braids, twists, locs, and cornrows, but
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6 March 2021 International Transgender Day of Visibility Will Be Held on March 31
March 31, 2021, will mark the 12th which mourns the victims of hate Alphonso David, president of the annual International Transgender crimes and violence, according to LGBTQ advocacy group The Human Day of Visibility (TDoV). The event Queerhombolt.org, an online resource Rights Campaign, encouraged others celebrates the resilience and success of for the LGBTQ community. to use TDoV as an opportunity to transgender and gender nonconforming Though the COVID-19 pandemic learn from the pride and resilience of people and raises awareness of has limited in-person celebrations the transgender community. “As we transgender rights. for TDoV 2021, some organizations celebrate [TDoV], we must never TDoV was founded by activist and higher education institutions are forget those who still feel invisible Rachel Crandall in 2009. Crandall working within the restrictions to even in their own communities and was inspired by the fact that there shine a light on transgender rights. The who may live every day with fear of was no holiday in existence dedicated University of California, Riverside, for discrimination or violence, and we must to honoring the achievements and example, is offering limited seating for resolve to fight for a world where every contributions of transgender people. At an on-campus TDoV event featuring transgender and non-binary person is the time, the only major transgender- Ryan Cassata, transgender singer- respected and protected,” David said in centered commemoration was the songwriter and LGBTQ activist, as a a 2020 statement.● Transgender Day of Remembrance, guest speaker and performer.
Inequities Persist in College APPLICATIONS Despite Reducing ACT, SAT Requirements
Recent data from the Common App a January 22 statement that she is from the previous school year. The shows overall college applicants have “very concerned” about the decrease University of California, Berkeley, increased by 10 percent for 2021, with in underrepresented groups and which completely eliminated the use large, selective schools experiencing the believes the data signals the need for of standardized tests in its admission highest increase. additional support. process, saw a 28 percent increase with Yet low-income and first- “As our country nears the one- 112,000 applicants. generation students still decreased year mark in its fight against “The pandemic has given huge.— in application submissions even as COVID-19, support for applicants and in some places, decisive — more schools reduced barriers such as disproportionately impacted by momentum to a movement to reduce standardized test requirements due to the pandemic will be necessary to or even eliminate the use of admissions the coronavirus. prevent another year of the large and testing at highly competitive colleges The Common App is a college inequitable enrollment declines,” and universities,” The Washington Post admission platform for undergraduate Rickard stated. reports. “That, in turn, has lured more applicants that allows them to apply Popular colleges like Harvard applicants to the upper tier of the to more than 900 member colleges University and state flagship market.” and universities across the United institutions like the University of Doctoral universities, which accrued States, Canada, China, Japan, and some Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville have the largest number of applications, European countries. seen a spike in college applications experienced a 14 percent increase The platform released data last after suspending SAT and ACT test compared to 2019-2020. Applications month that shows first-generation requirements. This is the first year to four-year colleges also increased applicants declined by 3 percent UVA is not requiring standardized relative to the previous academic year. and those who received a fee waiver test scores. As a result, the school set While applicants from China declined by 2 percent. The numbers are a record for itself with 48,000 declined by 18 percent, other countries actually an increase from the 7 percent applications, marking a 15 percent exhibited noteworthy growth, including declines each group previously had in increase from the year prior. India (+28 percent), Canada (+22 December 2020. Similarly, Harvard University’s percent), Pakistan (+37 percent), the Jenny Rickard, president and applicant pool reached a record United Kingdom (+23 percent), and CEO of the Common App, said in of 57,000, which is up 42 percent Brazil (+41 percent).●
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Penn State University’s Black Caucus Receives Support from President, Faculty Following Zoom-bombing Incident
After Black Caucus members President Eric Barron released Zoom-bombings are virtual experienced a Zoom-bombing last a statement on Saturday directed to hijackings of Zoom video meetings, week, Pennsylvania State University the Black Caucus members, saying usually carried out by groups of trolls (Penn State) officials, faculty, and the university “continues to stand in and hackers who spread hate speech, university groups have been offering solidarity” and plans to “diligently lewd images, and other inflammatory their support while condemning the pursue ways to find and hold material, with the ultimate intention hateful incident. accountable the perpetrators.” of shutting meetings down. The The Penn State Black Caucus was Various faculty groups and university attacks have been on the rise ever in the midst of a Zoom meeting last departments have also spoken out since the coronavirus pandemic forced Wednesday when 51 uninvited users in condemnation of the incident, events online. joined the room. The unidentified including the university’s faculty senate, Underrepresented groups, especially hijackers began shouting racial and faculty members from the African at colleges and universities, are a homophobic slurs and shared obscene American Studies Department, and the common target. Gonzaga University’s images. heads of the College of Liberal Arts. Black Student Union, San Diego University police announced they Penn State’s undergraduate student State University’s Filipino American are investigating the hate speech government announced Friday it plans student organization, and California involved in the Zoom-bombing and to introduce a resolution formally Polytechnic State University’s Chinese have partnered with multiple officials condemning the act and will demand Student Association are just a few including the FBI, according to the university to provide adequate groups that have been victims of a statement issued on Wednesday. support to Black students. Zoom-bombings in the last year.●
Virginia House Votes to Seek Reparations for Slavery from Colleges and Universities
A bill passed by the Virginia House of University. The University of Virginia Delegates on February 4 aims to make (UVA), founded in 1819 by slaveholder five public colleges and universities in and founding father Thomas Jefferson, the state pay reparations to descendants is also included in the bill. White of enslaved people who helped build supremacists marched on UVA’s campus and operate their campuses. during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right The bill, HB 1980, would require rally, and INSIGHT has previously the institutions to work with the State reported on the university’s research on Council of Higher Education for Virginia the lives of the 5,000 enslaved persons The University of Virginia is one of five to identify “to the extent possible, all institutions that would be required to who lived and worked there before enslaved individuals who labored on pay reparations to the descendants of 1865. The other institutions included enslaved persons under HB 1980. former and current institutionally in HB 1980 are Longwood University, controlled grounds and property.” Virginia Commonwealth University, The schools must then offer full and the Virginia Military Institute, four-year scholarships or community- If passed by the Senate of Virginia, which is the oldest public senior based economic development the initiative — titled “Enslaved military college in the U.S. All three programs to “individuals or specific Ancestors College Access Scholarship were founded in the late 1830s. communities with a demonstrated and Memorial Program” — will take “This is an opportunity for these historic connection to slavery that will effect in 2022. universities to give back,” Democratic empower families to be lifted out of The five schools identified in HB Del. David Reid, a proponent of the the cycle of poverty.” Individuals who 1980 include the College of William legislation, told WTOP News. “They are identified as eligible for reparations and Mary, which was built in 1693 and owe their foundational success to the would be able to attend any of the five is the second oldest higher education enslaved laborers who helped build and universities for free. institution in the U.S. after Harvard run the institutions in their early days.”●
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ARKANSAS FLORIDA policy and administration director Johnny M. Moore, DeOnte Brown has for the City of Detroit in Michigan. PhD, was selected been appointed as chancellor of director of the Dava Newman, Arkansas State Center for Academic PhD, was selected University-Newport. Retention and as the director Moore previously Enhancement and of the MIT Media served as president assistant dean of Lab in Cambridge. of Pierpont Community and undergraduate studies at Florida Newman previously Technical College in Fairmont, State University in Tallahassee. served as the West Virginia. Brown was assistant dean of Apollo Program Professor in MIT’s students at Clemson University in Department of Aeronautics and Lonnie Williams, South Carolina. Astronautics and a faculty member EdD, has been in the Harvard-MIT Program in appointed vice Malou C. Harrison, PhD, was Health Sciences and Technology. chancellor for selected as provost of Miami Dade diversity and College (MDC). Harrison previously MARYLAND community served as president of MDC North Karsonya “Kaye” engagement at Campus. Whitehead, PhD, Arkansas State University in will serve as the Jonesboro. Williams was special Kathleen Plinske, inaugural director assistant to the chancellor. EdD, has been of the Karson appointed president Institute for CALIFORNIA of Valencia College Race, Peace, and Nicoli Richardson, in Orlando. Plinske Social Justice at Loyola University JD, was selected as was the university’s Maryland in Baltimore. Whitehead deputy coordinator provost and will continue her position as a for the Office executive vice president. professor of communications and of Equity, Equal African American studies at the Opportunity, and GEORGIA university. Title IX at the Raheem Beyah, University of Southern California in PhD, was selected MICHIGAN Los Angeles. Richardson previously dean and Southern Linda S. Greene, served as a senior investigator for Company Chair JD, will serve as the the university’s Office of Equity for the College inaugural dean of and Diversity. of Engineering at the Michigan State Georgia Institute University College COLORADO of Technology (Georgia Tech) of Law in East Marielena DeSanctis, PhD, has in Atlanta. Beyah previously Lansing. Greene been appointed president of the served as vice president for was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Community College of Denver. interdisciplinary research, Law at the University of Wisconsin- DeSanctis was provost and senior executive director of the Online Madison School of Law. vice president of academic affairs Master of Science in Cybersecurity and student services at Broward program, and Motorola MISSISSIPPI College in Florida. Foundation Professor for the Eduardo Prieto School of Electrical and Computer has been CONNECTICUT Engineering at Georgia Tech. appointed vice Otoniel “Tony” Reyes was selected chancellor for chief of the Quinnipiac University MASSACHUSETTS enrollment Department of Public Safety in Katherine Hammer management at Hamden. Reyes previously served has been appointed the University as chief of the New Haven Police vice president of Mississippi in Oxford. Prieto Department. for finance at the was vice president for access Massachusetts and enrollment management at Institute of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, Technology (MIT). South Carolina. Hammer was chief deputy CFO and
10 March 2021 Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Kean University is recognized as one of the most diverse universities in the United States and a top performer for social mobility. Located 30 minutes outside New York City, Kean prides itself on its inclusive and welcoming learning environment. Kean is also taking important steps to build its faculty with researchers and scholars from all backgrounds.
President Lamont O. Repollet, Ed.D., along with the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, are proud to announce the Equity in Action Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This new postdoctoral fellowship, focused on advancing equity within our faculty, will have a balance of teaching, mentorships and professional development.
The University is also hiring more than 40 new tenure- track faculty members across a range of disciplines for the 2021-2022 academic year. Applicants from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit kean.edu/employment.
As Kean strives to become “ New Jersey’s next world- class research institution, DIVERSITYour success will be defined by our ability to cultivate the next generation of academics and to promote inclusivity EQUITYand equity for all. Lamont O. Repollet,” Ed.D. Kean University President INCLUSIONKean University celebrates its diverse community at Kean USA and Wenzhou-Kean University in China. new directions
Starsha Jamerson NORTH CAROLINA the California State University was selected as Susan R. Wente, system in Long Beach. director of the PhD, is the first Mississippi Migrant woman to be WASHINGTON, D.C. Education Service named president Sara Bleich, PhD, Center at Mississippi of Wake Forest was selected as State University in University in senior advisor Starkville. Jamerson previously Winston-Salem. for COVID-19 for served as an educational services Wente was provost and vice the Office of the coordinator for the center. chancellor for academic affairs at Secretary of the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, U.S. Department NEW JERSEY Tennessee. of Agriculture. Bleich previously Guillermo “Will” de Veyga, PhD, served as a professor of public will serve as the inaugural vice PENNSYLVANIA health policy in the Harvard T.H. president for strategic initiatives Wanda Heading- Chan School of Public Health and and university relations at William Grant, PhD, the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor Paterson University in Wayne. will serve as in Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for De Veyga was chief of staff to the inaugural Advanced Study. the president at New Jersey City vice provost for University. diversity, equity, Sam Fulwood-III and inclusion and has been appointed NEW YORK chief diversity officer for Carnegie dean of American Deborah Archer, JD, Mellon University in Pittsburgh. University’s School will serve as the first Heading-Grant previously of Communication. Black president of served as vice president for Fulwood was a the American Civil diversity, equity, and inclusion senior fellow for Liberties Union in at the University of Vermont in Politics and Elections and vice New York City. Archer Burlington. president for Race and Ethnicity at previously served as a the Center for American Progress professor at the New York University TENNESSEE in Washington, D.C. School of Law as well as director of Ashley Brown the school’s Civil Rights Clinic and has been named WEST VIRGINIA co-faculty director of its Center on director of the Amelia Smith Race, Inequality, and the Law. Student Center Rinehart, JD, for Social Justice was selected as DeAnna R. Burt- and Identity dean of the West Nanna, PhD, has at Vanderbilt Virginia University been appointed University in Nashville. Brown College of Law president of Monroe was assistant director of equity, in Morgantown. Community College- diversity, and inclusion for Rinehart previously served as SUNY in Rochester. university housing at Georgia associate dean for academic Burt-Nanna was vice State University in Atlanta. affairs at the University of Utah president of student and academic S.J. Quinney School of Law in Salt affairs for South Central College in TEXAS Lake City. North Mankato, Minnesota. Loren James Blanchard, PhD, Brian Harper, MD, was selected has been appointed as vice president for equity and president of the inclusion at the New York Institute University of of Technology (NYIT). Harper will Houston-Downtown. continue to serve as an associate Blanchard was professor and chief medical officer executive vice chancellor for for the institute. academic and student affairs for
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Incoming Education Secretary with their gender. Biden’s strong stance loan forgiveness, but experts say that if Miguel Cardona and his predecessor on LGBTQ rights also indicates that the Education Department does decide Betsy DeVos could not, in many ways, Cardona will take steps to promote to forgive a portion of federal education be more opposite. While DeVos comes transgender equality, including when debt, it will take time to implement. from an extremely wealthy White it comes to controversial issues such as Cardona is expected to reverse family, Cardona was raised by middle school bathroom laws. DeVos’ Title IX guidelines for campus class parents from Puerto Rico. DeVos Much of the current conversation sexual assault. Her decision to reverse is a staunch advocate for school choice, around education has focused on Obama-era guidelines that had while Cardona attended public K-12 pandemic-related challenges. Cardona’s increased colleges’ responsibility for schools and colleges.— including Central messages to the public have centered addressing sexual violence was one of Connecticut State University, where on this issue, especially as it affects the most controversial actions during he became the first college graduate in K-12 students. He strongly supports her tenure as secretary. Experts say his family. Cardona spent decades as a reopening schools as quickly as possible Cardona will likely eradicate DeVos’ teacher and principal, while one of the in order to close the education gap policies or enact new ones that restore greatest criticisms against DeVos was that that has primarily affected low-income certain rights for survivors and increase she had never worked in a classroom. students during the pandemic, which he college accountability. The stark contrast between Cardona has called an “education emergency.” Cardona is also expected to improve and DeVos extends to their views on Improving educational equity overall educational equity for immigrants and equal rights in schools, student debt, is one of Cardona’s top concerns. As undocumented students. Biden’s swift and many other pressing issues. Now, state education commissioner, he was reversal of Trump-era regulations on the as President Joe Biden seeks to reverse “a fierce advocate for Connecticut’s Muslim travel ban and other immigration or override national laws and guidelines most vulnerable children — those issues is a sign that his administration put in place by his predecessor with disabilities, children in low- will be more welcoming to international President Donald Trump, Cardona is income families, and English language students. His support of the Deferred faced with a similar goal within the U.S. learners.— as he pushed for schools to Action for Childhood Arrivals — or Department of Education. reopen,” according to NPR. DACA — program aligns with Cardona’s Biden has said that Cardona Experts say these priorities align with views on the importance of supporting understands “that education isn’t just Biden’s mission to promote racial equity English language learner students. what we do, it’s who we are.” Critics of and is a signal that Cardona will focus Potential changes could include more the new education secretary, however, on assessing higher education’s impact aid to undocumented students and the have said that he is too inexperienced on social mobility. Jennifer Grodsky, colleges and universities that enroll them. when it comes to politics, as his highest vice president for federal relations at Cardona, whose first language is post has been serving as Education Boston University, told the university’s Spanish, has said that he empathizes Commissioner for Connecticut — a news service BU Today that the Biden with students from similar role he’s held for less than two years. administration will likely prioritize backgrounds because he “struggled Others have accused Cardona of supporting historically Black colleges with his own identity growing up,” being too diplomatic rather than taking and universities as well as institutions according to NPR. However, he a decisive stance on certain issues. that have large numbers of underserved learned to embrace his Latinx heritage During his Senate confirmation hearing students of color, such as community and now sees it as a strength when on February 3, Cardona was asked if he colleges. Biden may increase oversight of it comes to serving an increasingly supports allowing transgender students colleges and universities when it comes to multicultural country. Upon his to play sports that align with their equity in graduation rates and admissions nomination as Education Secretary, gender identity rather than assigned policies as well as student debt-to-income Cardona stated “I, being bilingual and sex. He replied that he would “make ratios, according to Grodsky. bicultural, am as American as apple pie sure we’re following the civil rights of The student debt crisis is one and rice and beans.”● all students.” Connecticut, however, of Biden and Cardona’s greatest does allow transgender students to challenges. There is increasing pressure Mariah Bohanon is the senior editor of play on sports teams that correspond on Biden to live up to his promises of INSIGHT Into Diversity.
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In early December 2020, the April 2020’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, current students, according to Deborah American Council on Education and Economic Security (CARES) Act Méndez-Wilson, the university’s (ACE), in conjunction with more by nearly $10 billion, many college and interim director of communications. than 100 other higher education university leaders say that struggling “We intend to assist as many as 4,600 groups, penned a letter to majority campuses and students require far more. students this semester, providing grants and minority leaders in the U.S. In the CRRSSAA, public and of up to $2,000 per student, depending Senate and House of Representatives nonprofit institutions received $20 on their unique circumstances and requesting at least $120 billion billion to be used for student financial needs,” she says. to support college and university aid while for-profit colleges received Since the start of the pandemic, students and campuses nationwide. $908 million. Nonprofit campuses CU Boulder has provided nearly $18 In the letter, ACE President Ted were also awarded an additional $1.7 million in emergency financial aid to Mitchell outlined how the pandemic billion specifically for historically Black 7,892 students from a combination has led to decreases in enrollment, colleges and universities (HBCUs), of federal, donor and campus funds, significant revenue losses, and a Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), according to Méndez-Wilson. The massive financial burden on students, tribal colleges, and other minority- university has an enrollment of 35,000. especially students of color and those serving institutions. Unfortunately, the CRRSAA from disadvantaged backgrounds. Among the more innovative excludes international and “The current situation is components of the CRRSAA is undocumented students from receiving unsustainable for an extended period, the elimination of $1.3 billion in financial assistance. However, CU and at this point there are simply no debt across 44 HBCUs. The debt Boulder will be using institutional other sufficient options for institutions cancellation will allow these schools funds to support those who fall into beyond meaningful federal assistance,” to invest “back into their students at a those categories, Méndez-Wilson says. Mitchell wrote. “That support is critical time when student assistance is Unlike the CARES Act, higher needed urgently.” needed most,” U.S. Rep. Alma Adams education institutions can use Ultimately, only one-sixth of the (D-NC) told University Business CRRSAA funding to support student requested funding was approved by magazine. The relief bill also increased needs related to the cost of attendance Congress when it passed the 2021 Pell Grant eligibility by half a million as well as emergency expenses related Coronavirus Response and Relief students and simplified the Free to the COVID-19 pandemic, such Supplemental Appropriations Act Application for Federal Student Aid, or as childcare and health care. At CU (CRRSAA) on December 27. FAFSA, from 108 to 36 questions. Boulder, low-income and disadvantaged Collectively, institutions of higher As of late January 2021, many students have sought assistance with education across the country received colleges and universities were still in educational, living, medical, and mental $23 billion out of the nearly $82 the difficult process of deciding how to health expenses. According to Méndez- billion set aside for education and distribute their federal relief funding. Wilson, the university received more childcare in CRRSAA. Colleges and Of the institutions that INSIGHT than 2,000 applications within the universities are required to prioritize contacted for this story, many replied first two weeks of January from those distribution of these funds to Pell that they have yet to decide on a “who have been directly impacted by Grant-eligible students and others precise plan for apportioning their COVID-19.”● with exceptional need, many of whom CRRSAA dollars. are from underserved communities The University of Colorado Boulder Erik Cliburn is a senior staff writer for that have been disproportionately (CU Boulder), which received just INSIGHT Into Diversity. affected by the pandemic. over $28 million from the CRRSAA, While the bill surpasses the stimulus plans to spend $9.4 million on relief afforded to higher education in emergency grants for incoming and
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musc.edu | muschealth.org | musc.edu/arrow monthly observance: Women’s History Month 100 Years After the Passage of the 19th Amendment, Women Dominate at the Polls
By Mariah Bohanon
August 2020 marked the centennial the House and Senate between 1935 their male counterparts had long of the passage of the 19th Amendment, and 1955 alone. Patsy Mink of Hawaii ignored,” according to The Atlantic. a law meant to grant women in the U.S. became the first Asian American Today, the caucus has 177 members, the right to vote nearly 150 years after congresswoman when she was elected both women and men. the nation was founded. Despite this to the House in 1952. A 1975 extension of the Voting long overdue victory, many women.— Rights Act eased restrictions for The 1960s especially those of color — would women from Asian, Latinx, and other remain disenfranchised due to voter The Civil Rights Acts of 1957, backgrounds by ending discrimination suppression laws until the advent of the 1960, and 1964 as well as the Voting against “language minorities” and civil rights movement. As the push for Rights Act of 1965 eased, but did requiring voter registration materials women’s rights evolved over the latter not eradicate, barriers to the polls for be made available in languages other half of the 20th century, so too did their women of color. The women’s rights than English. participation at the polls and in politics. movement began to shift perceptions of The 1980s Although efforts to block access to gender roles and emboldened women, the ballot for underrepresented voters especially younger generations, with In the 1980 presidential election, the continue today in the form of voter a sense of duty when it came to civic percentage of eligible women voters ID laws and other targeted policies, participation. New groups such as the who cast a ballot was greater than that women of all backgrounds have become National Organization of Women of eligible male voters for the first time a force strong enough to sway elections, (NOW) advocated for gender equality in history — marking the beginning of lead Congress, and even serve as vice in politics and public life on a massive a pattern that still holds true for every president of the United States. age group except those 65 and older. The election was also the first time A History of Women’s Voting Indigenous women could not vote that men and women showed a distinct Patterns and Rise to Political Office until four years after the passage division in their choice of candidate, as of the 19th Amendment, when only 47 percent of women supported The 1920s – 1950s the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act granted citizenship to all Native Republican candidate Ronald Reagan Despite the victory of the 19th Americans born in the U.S. compared with 55 percent of men. Amendment, many women continued The decade marked the beginning to abide by traditional gender roles of what the Brookings Institute calls that discouraged their participation in “the gender realignment of American political life. In the first year in which scale. By the 1966 midterms, men’s politics” as women began to increasingly they were eligible to cast a ballot in dominance at the polls had become skew left at the polls. federal elections, only 36 percent did marginal, and by 1968 the U.S. had its By 1984, the gender gap in so, compared with 68 percent of men. first Black congresswoman, Rep. Shirley African American voter turnout had By the 1940s, the gap had narrowed, Anita Chisholm of New York. become sizable, with Black women with women hovering around 10 outnumbering Black men at the polls The 1970s percentage points less likely to vote by 6 percentage points. than men. For women of color and Men and women turned out in equal In 1989, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of those who were low-income, however, numbers for a presidential election Florida became the first Latinx woman disenfranchisement remained the norm. for the first time in 1976. One year elected to the House of Representatives. Yet even with low voter turnout, later, 15 congresswomen created the The 1990s women ascended to Congress in steady, Congressional Caucus for Women’s if low, numbers. The first woman Issues, a bipartisan group “intended Women continued to outnumber men senator, Hattie Wyatt Caraway of to foster camaraderie among women at the polls by 2 to 3 percent in both Arkansas, was elected to office in 1932, legislators and bring a collective focus the 1992 and 1996 federal elections. and nearly 40 women were elected to to women’s issues, many of which Dubbed “The Year of the Woman,”
18 March 2021 100 Years After the Passage of the 19th for Clinton, according to the Pew The Anita Hill Hearings Research Center. One of the major issues that galvanized women candidates and voters By the 2018 midterms, however, Amendment, Women Dominate at the Polls in the lead-up to the 1992 election was President George H.W. Bush’s the percent of women who voted nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. In addition to Democratic nearly doubled. extremely conservative stances on women’s issues such as abortion, A record number of 117 women were Thomas had been accused of repeated sexual harassment by Anita Hill, who had worked for him during his time as assistant secretary of the U.S. elected to the House and Senate, Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights. “Broadcast into millions of including the first Native American homes, the spectacle of the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee offering and first Muslim congresswomen. Hill little sympathy, and at moments treating her with outright hostility, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at 29 years reinforced the perception that the experiences and perspectives of women old, became the youngest woman received short shrift in the halls of Congress. It gave momentum to many candidates in the fall elections and contributed to a record number of to ever serve in Congress. LGBTQ women winning,” according to the website history.house.gov. women also broke records in federal, state, and local elections across the U.S. As in 1992, these historic victories led 2018 to be dubbed “The Year of the Woman.” The 2010s 1992 saw more new women elected to 2020 Congress than in any previous decade. State lawmakers across the country Subsequently, the Congressional began issuing a series of voter The gender gap in federal elections Caucus for Women’s Issues succeeded restriction policies intended to persisted, with 55 percent of women in passing a series of landmark equal disenfranchise people of color and supporting President Joe Biden rights laws, including the Family and underserved communities. By the in the November federal election Medical Leave Act of 1993 and the end of the decade, 25 states passed compared with 46 percent of Violence Against Women Act of 1994. new laws making it more difficult to men. Nearly 70 percent of Latinx The caucus also successfully advocated vote. Despite these barriers, Black women voters.— a population for revolutionary changes to federal women showed up to the polls in disproportionately affected by the health care policies and research, higher percentages than women of economic and caretaking burdens of which until that point had largely been every other race in 2012. By 2016, they the COVID-19 pandemic.— voted conducted by and for men. outnumbered Black men voters by 9 for Biden. Surveys revealed that percentage points. level of education, race and ethnicity, The 2000s The 2016 election revealed a sharp and age were stronger indicators of The gender voting gap widened, with partisan divide based on age, education political preference than gender. women outnumbering men in federal level, and ethnicity and race. While A record number of Republican elections by 7.8 million in 2000, 8.8 women overall were still more likely to women were elected to Congress in million in 2004, and 10.7 million vote Democratic, White women cast November, bringing their total number in 2008. Their high turnout and more ballots for Donald Trump than to 36. Even with significant gains for continued preference for Democratic for Hillary Clinton by 2 percentage both parties, however, women still candidates helped secure the historic points. By contrast, nearly 70 percent comprise only 27 percent of the House election of President Barack Obama in of Latinx women and a dramatic and Senate combined; women of color 2008. Also in that year, Black women 98 percent of Black women voted account for just 10 percent. Fewer than made history by having the highest 1 in 3 state lawmakers are women, and voter turnout of all racial, ethnic, and only nine are governors. gender groups, with nearly 70 percent Many experts partly attribute Despite continued underrepresentation, casting a ballot. women’s political galvanization women overcame a major barrier in 2018 to society’s complacency November 2008 saw another historic when Kamala Harris was elected vice with sexual violence, as in 1992. first as the percent of eligible women This was evidenced by the president 100 years after the ratification voters ages 65 to 74 at the polls caught 2017 resurgence of the #MeToo of the 19th Amendment. She is the first up to the number of men in their same movement and historic women’s woman, first African American, and age group for the first time. Women marches. In 2018 surveys and first Asian American to serve in the ages 75 and older, however, continued exit polls, women of all races nation’s second highest office.● a longstanding pattern of being far less were more likely to report that concerns about escalating racism likely than their male counterparts to influenced their decision to vote. Mariah Bohanon is the senior editor of participate in elections. INSIGHT Into Diversity.
insightintodiversity.com 19 Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Struggle with Accessibility Issues During Pandemic By Lisa O’Malley
Nearly all college students have faced their fair share of difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic when it comes to keeping up academically. For the Deaf and hard of hearing (DHOH), however, something as simple as understanding a classroom lecture — whether online or in person.— has become a considerable struggle. “Trying to follow along with audio on videos and lectures has definitely been the biggest issue for me,” explains Abigail Toth, a freshman studying special education and Deaf education at Kent State University (KSU). The FaceView Mask, created by Jeanne Hahne, is a transparent facial covering that allows Toth has residual hearing; while for lipreading and has the possibility to make communication more effective for Deaf and she can make out some sounds, she hard of hearing people. still suffers from significant hearing loss. She says that she was fortunate to have found an online tool that can adjusting to this format. Nearly 75 Sign Language (ASL), which has no create captions in real time and that percent of Deaf college students written form. To read and write in her university offers multiple resources consider online learning more difficult English, they must mentally translate for DHOH students. KSU’s Student than traditional learning, according each word to the corresponding ASL Accessibility Services office provides to a recent poll by the National Deaf sign — which can be especially difficult her with notes, lectures, and Center on Postsecondary as the two languages have variations PowerPoint presentations Outcomes (NDC) at the in vocabulary and grammar. Having for her classes. While these University of Texas at Austin. extra reading and writing assignments, services were offered even Some of those surveyed therefore, is often more laborious and before the pandemic,Toth said they were denied ASL time-consuming for these students. says they have been vital in interpreters for virtual courses Jasmine Hall is a helping her keep up online. because their college or university senior at KSU who “Since I often miss parts Abigail Toth has an exclusive contract with was born Deaf and and pieces of information an interpretation service that whose first language is through the audio [portions] does not offer remote services. ASL. She tried to find of lectures and videos, having access to Many reported being frustrated that a tutor who could help these resources makes it easier for me to professors tend to use more podcasts, her keep up with the stay on track academically,” she explains. audio files, and videos as teaching tools increased workload of Jasmine Hall The switch to online education in online courses. written assignments has been unpopular among college Nearly three quarters of students during the pandemic. students overall. In an August survey in the NDC survey indicated that “I was struggling to write everything by the Excellence in Virtual Education the increased amount of reading and in English because there are not great project, 65 percent said they disliked writing required for remote learning is resources for [finding] English tutors virtual classes. Yet DHOH students one of their greatest challenges. Many online,” she says. Nor could she use in- appear to have an even harder time people who are DHOH use American person tutoring due to concerns about
20 March 2021 “We ultimately hope that the use of transparent masks becomes more of the norm, not just for helping people who are [D]eaf and hard of hearing, but for all people,” Atcherson says, explaining that these masks have the potential to prevent medical errors by improving communication among health care workers and with patients.
possible COVID-19 exposure. And of Technology, has been conducting For online lectures and videos, he even if she had been able to find an research into the effectiveness of advises reducing background noise in-person tutor, Hall says time limits helping people communicate with as much as possible, speaking closely made it hard for her to get the help transparent facial coverings since into the microphone, and using a she needed. 2008. His work has been room that does not cause “Tutors had their time limits for gaining more attention since echoes. He also points to every person, which wasn’t helpful the onset of the pandemic, captions as a vital resource and because I need more than 30 minutes he says. suggests that instructors make per session,” she says. “We ultimately hope that transcripts available after class. Eventually, Hall was able to receive the use of transparent masks Hall and Toth agree with assistance from a friend who is an becomes more of the norm, these recommendations, English major. She knows that many not just for helping people Samuel R. and their personal advice other DHOH students, however, have who are [D]eaf and hard of Atcherson for DHOH students is to not been so lucky. hearing, but for all people,” communicate when they are When it comes to seated he wrote in an email to INSIGHT, feeling overwhelmed — not just to courses.— or any form of in-person explaining that clear masks have the professors but to family, friends, and communication — a common hurdle potential to prevent medical errors classmates. There is no shame in for DHOH students is understanding by improving communication among struggling or being unmotivated in people wearing face masks. These health care workers and with patients. school during this difficult period, coverings prevent lipreading and can Atcherson, who is hard of Hall says. cause muffled speech as well as obscure hearing, has served as a consultant “It is so important to remind facial expressions, which are necessary for the NDC over the course of ourselves right now that these are for accurately understanding ASL. the COVID-19 pandemic. He such unprecedented times,” Toth “Lipreading during the pandemic recommends that faculty who want adds. “Masks and social distancing has been virtually impossible because to improve accessibility for DHOH have such a damaging impact on of masks,” says Toth. During her students start by ensuring their communication. However, keeping in on-campus marching band class, face and mouth are visible when touch with friends and your peers is face masks make it more difficult to communicating, if it’s safe to do so. so important in keeping your mental understand her instructor and fellow “However, I caution that not all health in check.”● students, causing Toth to miss cues. [DHOH] people are great lip readers, Samuel R. Atcherson, PhD, so it should never be assumed that Lisa O’Malley is the assistant editor of a professor and the director of unobstructed view of the face works for INSIGHT Into Diversity. audiology at the Rochester Institute everyone,” Atcherson wrote in the email.
insightintodiversity.com 21 22 March 2021 New Immigration Policies, Recruiting Strategies Offer Hope for International Enrollment
By Lisa O’Malley
Within hours of taking office on colleges and universities had been international students said they were January 20, President Joe Biden swiftly stagnant or on the decline for several considering alternate study destinations worked to undo some of the damage years in a row. As explained in the for the 2020-2021 academic year caused by the Trump administration’s December 2019 issue of INSIGHT, because of the political climate in the foreign travel and immigration policies. the discussion around declining U.S., according to a survey by World Most notably, Biden signed an executive international enrollment “has focused Education Services (WES). order to reverse a travel ban on visitors in large part on the effects that the Global perceptions of the Trump from several Muslim-majority countries Trump administration’s anti-immigrant administration’s response to the and issued a memorandum to preserve sentiment has had on international pandemic also caused foreign students the Deferred Action for Childhood students. Visa processing delays and the to shy away. In August, 73 percent of Arrivals (DACA) program. racial profiling of STEM students and student respondents in the WES survey It was an uplifting moment for scholars, for example, have contributed reported extreme or moderate concern international students, college recruiters, to a significant drop in Chinese that they or their dependents would and university leaders — all of whom students, who account for nearly a third contract COVID-19 while in the U.S. have felt the detrimental effects of of international enrollment.” In all, international enrollment in President Donald Trump’s policies and Then, COVID-19 took its toll. American colleges and universities were eager for signs that Biden’s election Travel restrictions and campus closures plunged a staggering 43 percent in fall might signal a reversal of the downward upended study abroad programs around 2020, according to the International trend in international enrollment. the world. In the U.S., the pandemic’s Institute of Education. “Thriving nations in the international effects on international enrollment Moving Forward community, including the United were exacerbated by political strife. States, depend on a pipeline of talent Nearly 40 percent of prospective Despite the setbacks of COVID-19 from around the world, and yet, recent trends indicate that the United States is losing this valuable academic resource,” says Rachel Banks, senior director of public policy and legislative The Financial Repercussions of strategy at NAFSA: Association of International Enrollment Decline International Educators. In addition to the executive actions Biden The 43 percent drop in The drop in international international enrollment for enrollment is not just dire for already issued on his the fall 2020 semester was a universities, but for the U.S. first day in office, the significant setback for a higher economy as a whole. Economic president has since education system already contributions by international called for expanding struggling with declining students in 2019-2020 were visas for skilled workers domestic enrollment and growing down 4.4 percent from the dropout rates amid the pandemic. previous year, resulting in a and eliminating caps on Rachel Banks Although international students $1.8 billion loss, according to the number of recent account for less than 6 percent of Rachel Banks, senior director PhD graduates in the country’s student population, of public policy and legislative STEM fields. they pay a significant amount in strategy at NAFSA: Association “Under a Biden administration, there tuition and fees and contribute of International Educators. This a generous portion to most is the first time that the dollar is potential to return to or create new institutions’ bottom lines. Lacking amount has decreased since policies that welcome international this additional income, colleges NAFSA began calculating the students and scholars,” explains Banks. and universities collectively lost figure more than 20 years ago. around $3 billion in revenue last A Downward Trend year, according to NAFSA. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign enrollment in U.S.
insightintodiversity.com 23 and the detrimental effects of the Trump administration’s foreign and immigration policies, optimistic colleges and universities have continued to recruit students from around the world. As with many other aspects of higher education during the pandemic, doing so has required continuous innovation and taking full advantage of online capabilities. “Virtual campus tours and college fairs are happening in every corner of the country,” says Joann Ng Hartmann, senior director of International Enrollment Management-International Student and Scholar Services and Students in the Cornell China Center in Beijing enjoy the college experience from afar as Volunteer Engagement at NAFSA. participants in Cornell University’s remote Study Away program. College recruiters have also increased their social media presence as a means of garnering international student interest, according as possible.” student panels, student blogs, virtual to Hartmann. For example, To widen its outreach, UTSA campus tours, online chat hours with some schools have been also worked with other colleges admissions staff, hosting Facebook and and universities to develop the and more. Instagram Live events for Study Texas Virtual Fair, an Cornell also foreign students who may be online recruitment event that hosted live virtual interested in learning more Joann Ng allowed students to gather information sessions about studying abroad. Hartmann information on more than 30 for potential students The University of Texas higher education institutions. last summer and fall. at San Antonio (UTSA) is one Each school presented information “We decided to institution taking a virtual approach. on topics relevant to foreign students, focus the events in Shawn L. “With the transition from in-person such as scholarships and student life. ways that would Felton to online recruitment, we knew it was More than 350 potential students from allow us to speak to really important to remain creative around the world participated in the the particular concerns that students in how we reach our prospective and event, which took place in November. in a given school, country, or region admitted international students,” says At Cornell University, the Office might have,” Felton says. Lynn Barnes Jr., senior vice provost for of Undergraduate Admissions has The programming included strategic enrollment at UTSA. been hard at work creating new specialized sessions for students in Over the course of the pandemic, the virtual recruiting opportunities with different locations, including Asia, university developed a variety of virtual international students. Africa, Europe, and Central and opportunities for students to learn “We’ve increased our engagement South America. The admissions team about UTSA, including information in creative ways we never imagined, took special care in ensuring the sessions, one-on-one meetings, and and the results have been events were scheduled according to question and answer events. extraordinary,” says Shawn L. Felton, each region’s time zone to guarantee “We also work with high school senior director of undergraduate maximum engagement. college counselors and participate in admissions at the university. The events proved to be a major recruitment fairs to broaden In May 2020, the office success, with attendance numbering our network of potential launched the “Virtual Visit” well above 1,000 students, Felton says. students,” says Barnes. hub, where prospective students, In addition, Cornell undertook “At the same time, we families, and college counselors extensive planning and preparation to continue traditional forms could have instant access to provide multiple options for foreign of outreach through email an array of virtual engagement students over the course of the correspondence and mass opportunities and programming. pandemic. International students who Lynn email campaigns to reach as Barnes Jr. Resources include pre-recorded were unable to come to campus due many prospective students information sessions and to travel restrictions and visa delays
24 March 2021 International Student Destinations Join the region’s college of choice, Nearly 88 percent of students who decided to study in another country reported they known for diversity and innovation. changed their academic plans for the 2020- 2021 year, according to a survey by BridgeU. Of those students who changed plans, 41 percent said they chose to study in a different country We are hiring Assistant Professors (Tenure-Track) than their original destination. for the following disciplines: • Open Educational Resources Librarian Countries with the largest decline in • English international enrollment between 2020-2021: • Cultural and Ethnic Studies United States – 71 percent • Digital Media Arts Canada – 58 percent • Political Science United Kingdom – 56 percent • Health Promotion and Management
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China – 124 percent Italy – 83 percent Germany – 53 percent India – 53 percent
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were given the option to study remotely through Cornell’s in-residence Study Away programs. Administered by the Office of Global Learning, Study Away allows foreign students to take Cornell classes remotely from a campus in their home country or region. The opportunity enables them to share in co-curricular activities with their classmates from afar while enjoying access to local higher education facilities and resources. Because of the work of Felton and his team, enrollment projections for 2021 are optimistic. The university hopes to see a large percentage of students, especially international OUR APRIL 2021 ISSUE: students, return to campus for in-person learning, he says. Still, experts caution that universities alone cannot SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION restore the nation’s previous popularity among foreign students and scholars and despite Biden’s preliminary victories in changing immigration guidelines, there are still Our April issue will feature topics challenges ahead. Undoing some of the Trump-era policies focused on Schools of Education. We that discouraged or outright banned foreign students from will also announce the recipients of the U.S. will likely require a lengthy bureaucratic process. the 2021 INSIGHT Into Diversity Jesse Furthermore, any immigration policies the Biden L. Moore Supplier Diversity Awards. administration proposes will need to be “well-crafted The advertising deadline is March 8. and implemented” in order to regain the confidence of To reserve space, call 314-200-9955 international students, Banks says. or email [email protected]. “Only then,” she explains, “will we have a United States where these bright students are able to fully contribute to our campuses and communities.●
Lisa O’Malley is the assistant editor of INSIGHT Into Diversity.
insightintodiversity.com 25 Restoring Inmate Access to Pell Grants is an Important Step in Criminal Justice Reform
By Mariah Bohanon
Prisoners across the U.S. have a shown the critical role that education In a 2019 report, Vera estimated greater chance of achieving a bright plays in transforming opportunities for that 463,000 state and federal future thanks to a recent decision by inmates and their communities. One of prisoners would be eligible for the Congress to reinstate inmate access to the strongest arguments made by Vera Pell Grant program. If half of those federal Pell Grants. and other advocates is that education individuals were to take advantage of The decision, authorized on reduces the likelihood that an inmate the opportunity, their employment December 27, 2020, reverses a 26-year- will return to prison. rates could rise by nearly 10 percent, it old ban on federal student aid that was The majority, or 77 percent, of U.S. predicted. Combined wages earned by included in the 1994 Violent Crime prisoners are rearrested within five years all formerly incarcerated workers would Control and Law Enforcement Act for of release, according to the National increase by $45.3 million within the individuals who are incarcerated. Criminal Justice Reference Service. first year of release and, perhaps most As a result of that ban, the number Nearly 57 percent of those arrests occur staggering, the reduction in recidivism of college programs in U.S. prisons within the first year of release. would save the government $365.8 plummeted from an estimated 772 Participation in an education million in incarceration costs annually. programs operating across nearly 1,300 program while in prison, however, A Second Chance facilities in the early 1990s to just reduces recidivism by 43 percent and eight programs by 1997, according to increases chances of employment by The main argument against restoring the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), a 13 percent, according to the RAND Pell Grant access for people behind bipartisan think tank. Corporation. bars is that doing so takes funds away Yet research has proven that granting Education is one of the most from students in need. President Joe prisoners access to higher education is powerful tools for reducing these Biden, who was a leading proponent one of the most effective methods for high rates of recidivism by helping of the 1994 crime bill while in the reducing crime. The positive outcomes incarcerated individuals escape what Senate, has since stated that he regrets of college prison programs include PPI calls “perpetual labor market having taken this stance, as have lowering recidivism rates, saving punishment.” This is the double other supporters of the bill. Mounting taxpayer dollars, and helping former disadvantage that many former inmates research on the benefits of prison convicts and their families escape the face when seeking employment education programs led to increased cycle of poverty. because, in addition to having a pressure from both sides of the aisle to “Allowing people in prison to criminal record, they lack education. reverse the order, and in 2015 then- access higher education is a critical Less than 4 percent of prisoners President Barack Obama restored step toward a more equitable society, have a college degree, according to a partial access to federal aid for inmates especially for Black and [B]rown PPI study. The U.S. Census Bureau through the Second Chance Pell people who have historically been estimates that 40 percent do not Experimental Sites Initiative. sentenced to prison at higher rates possess a high school diploma. The initiative granted 67 and trapped in cycles of incarceration,” Unsurprisingly, this population faces institutions of higher education the Nicholas Turner, president and director disproportionately high unemployment ability to enroll incarcerated students of the Vera Institute for Justice (Vera), rates. One PPI study found that 27 using Pell Grant funding on a trial said in a statement. percent of former inmates don’t have basis. The program, which is capped jobs. People of color who have the least at 12,000 students annually, has been Recidivism and Employment education fare the worst; 60 percent of met with high demand from prisoners Vera is among several criminal justice Black women who had no high school and colleges alike. As of spring reform organizations that advocated education were unemployed after serving 2019, it had enrolled nearly 17,000 for restoring Pell Grant access to time in prison compared with 25 percent students and awarded more than prisoners, and its research has long of their White male counterparts. 4,500 postsecondary certificates and
26 March 2021 U.S. Prisoner Population Statistics
• The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world, with 698 people per 100,000 residents currently serving time in prison. This equates to 2.3 million behind bars nationwide.
• The size of the prison population in the U.S. increased 700% from 1972 to 2010.
• Black Americans make up 33% of the prison population, despite representing just 12% of the U.S. adult population overall.
• Hispanic and Latinx Americans account for 23% of the total prison population, despite comprising just 16% of the overall adult population.
• Women are 7 to 10% of the U.S. prison population, but their rates of incarceration are increasing at a rate nearly twice that of men.
• Only 23% of incarcerated Americans have ever taken a college course, compared to 55% of the general population.
• As of 2008, incarcerated individuals holding at least a high school diploma or GED had a 5% chance of earning a college degree after release.
degrees. Most of those who enrolled expansive prison education programs quality education programs that don’t went on to get bachelor’s degrees after could be bolstered by the restoration truly prepare them for employment or first earning certificates and associate of Pell Grant access. South Carolina further education upon release. degrees, according to Vera. already intended to begin offering In a series of guidelines for colleges The program’s popularity led then- incarcerated people free access to and corrections departments, Vera Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to college courses starting in 2021 through cautions that establishing a prison expand its reach to an additional 67 a partnership with Claflin University, education program is a “significant higher education institutions in 2020. a historically Black institution. In undertaking that will profoundly More than 180 colleges applied for the Wisconsin, the president of the state affect the lives of students, faculty, opportunity. university system has been pushing and staff ” and that such an endeavor to completely transform one of the takes “time, patience, creativity, Going Forward state prisons into a college for inmates and tenacity.” Higher education An estimated 64 percent of state and through a plan known as the UW administrators should recognize federal prisoners now qualify for Pell System Prison Education Initiative. It that unique factors such as inmate Grant funding based on household remains to be seen if these potential restrictions on internet access and income requirements. While there programs will be affected or if other technology may pose significant is no information available on the states will follow suit now that federal hurdles. They will need to work number who intend to enroll, several aid is available. closely with corrections staff in prison education programs are already Proponents say the restoration of ensuring that the education delivered in the works. Pell Grants for prisoners could be a is of the highest possible quality. Pitzer College, the University of boon to colleges and universities that Perhaps most importantly, the California, Irvine, and California have suffered declining enrollment best prison education programs State University, Sacramento all in recent years, especially in the wake consistently go beyond helping recently announced plans to launch of the COVID-19 pandemic. Other inmates prepare for future careers to degree programs in partnership experts have expressed concern that affirming their human dignity.● with the California Department of cash-strapped institutions could use Corrections and Rehabilitation. the reinstatement of Pell Grants as an Mariah Bohanon is the senior editor of In some states, plans to create opportunity to enroll prisoners in low- INSIGHT Into Diversity.
insightintodiversity.com 27 HBCUs Are Becoming More Diverse — But Not Everyone Considers That a Good Thing
By Mariah Stewart
Recently, a White student who was accepted to Spelman College — among the nation’s most prominent historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — sparked a heated online debate after posting about her acceptance on Instagram. The student, who has not been publicly identified but goes by the Instagram handle @_camillarose, uploaded a photo of herself wearing a Spelman shirt and expressed her excitement in a caption:
“Transferring to a Historically Black College or University has been my dream for almost two years now,” the now-deleted post read. “I could never have genuinely imagined I’d be transferring to the #1 HBCU in the country, Spelman College. The home of Black girl magic. I feel beyond grateful for every facet of my journey & for this IMMENSE privilege. ... I understand the privilege I hold as a White woman in America, and I choose to wake up every day using this privilege to create a more equitable and healed world.”
Via Instagram The post quickly went viral, with thousands on social media posting comments either in favor of or against it, that’s what she did and I am NOT students promotes divisiveness. @_camillarose’s reasons for attending OK WITH IT,” a Twitter user with “We’re promoting segregation an HBCU. Many criticized the post the handle @Tsmallsmakeupp1 wrote. by shunning her. Why promote for what they saw as a fetishization of “ALLL [sic] these PWIs, but she segregation after our hard fight for the Black HBCU experience. Some CHOSE to colonize an HBCU. And equality? As long as she’s treating argued that the very act of a White not for a superior education, but for Spelman like a school and not a black student attending an HBCU rather ‘an experience.’” woman museum, I don’t c [sic] the than a predominantly White institution Twitter user @jadedoddm, a current problem,” @jadedoddm tweeted. (PWI) is an invasion of a sacred space Spelman student, took the opposite The debate sparked by @_camillarose for African Americans. view. She pointed out that the college is just one example of an issue that has “She took a spot in a Black space that is named after a White woman become increasingly contentious as was meant for a BLACK WOMAN. I abolitionist, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, White enrollment at HBCUs continues don’t care how else you slice it and dice and argued that excluding non-Black to grow. As of 2018, nearly a quarter
28 March 2021 of HBCU students were not Black, according to the Don’t Let The National Center for Education Statistics. Many of these institutions have made the controversial push to increase Utah Difference racial diversity in an effort to secure more funding. Some HBCU recruiters say the move is necessary because White middle- and upper-class students are more likely Fool You to be able to afford full tuition rather than requiring the scholarships and grants needed by many Black students Alums of the College of Humanities excel at whatever from disadvantaged backgrounds. they do. Employers increasingly seek employees who HBCUs have been plagued by low enrollment numbers have strong skills learned in Humanities: in recent years and insufficient government support. In Maryland, for example, a coalition of HBCUs filed Critical, Ethical, Global Strong Verbal and Logical Education and and Written an ongoing federal lawsuit in 2006 arguing that their Thinking Understanding Communication institutions receive inequitable funding compared with PWIs. One of those institutions, Morgan State University, Research and Creative and Interpersonal Organizational Complex Skills has managed to grow enrollment in recent years by Skills Problem Solving recruiting more Latinx, White, and international students, according to a 2019 article in The Washington Post. The College of Humanities is the second For public HBCUs, recruiting non-Black students largest on campus and is at the core is necessary to maintain accreditation and receive of the University of Utah’s mission and higher education experience. government funding. In order to meet racial diversity standards, they recruit at predominantly White and 7 Departments Latinx high schools and, therefore, tend to have larger 8 Interdisciplinary Centers numbers of non-Black students compared with private HBCUs, according to another article in the Post. 9 Interdisciplinary Programs Of course, attracting non-Black students to 1 National Language historically Black institutions is not just a financial Resource Center matter. As with many PWIs, HBCUs tend to value 2 National Resource diversity for its educational and social benefits Centers and recognize that exposing students to different 24 Majors sociocultural identities is necessary to prepare them to Minors succeed in an increasingly multicultural world. 35 Still, there are those who say that enrolling non- Black students violates the mission of HBCUs and their special role as safe spaces for African American students. DJ Envy, the host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club, which often tackles Learning and working within the the racial issues, told listeners during a January 2021 has taught episode that he “never understood why students that College of Humanities weren’t Black went to HBCUs.” me about , , Via Instagram leadership community An alum of Hampton University, DJ Envy said that he and . I feel went to an HBCU because he was offered more financial celebrating difference aid than at other schools and that he liked the idea of especially grateful for the faculty and being in a space where he could be unapologetically Black that have supported and not have to worry about racism. students of color Milverton Saint, a popular African American blogger, me through my doctorate program. argues that the history of White colonization and Co-president of The College of Humanities Graduate gentrification illustrates why these institutions should be - Nina Feng Students of Color and/or International Origin preserved for Black students. “There isn’t a single example in the entirety of human history of one white person coming into a Black space and allowing it to remain a Black space. Countries, neighborhoods, schools, etc,” Saint recently tweeted. “A white person who claims to be an ally and understands history should understand that and choose to protect humanities.utah.edu @uofuhumanities
insightintodiversity.com 29 Black spaces from the outside. Not Research has found that HBCUs can insert themselves.” help enhance White students’ critical Yet some White students have consciousness by providing courses, defended their place at historically workshops, and group experiences Black institutions by arguing that their that explore White race, privilege, decision to attend an HBCU is based and oppression. Yet other studies on allyship and a desire to strengthen have found that attending college in their ability to combat racism. a predominantly Black environment In a 2018 documentary by Vice has substantial benefits for African News, White sociology major Americans. Black graduates of HBCUs Tiago Rachelson explained that experience greater social mobility he chose to study at Morehouse and have healthier lifestyles later in College — a historically Black men’s adulthood than those who attended college.— because of its “brotherhood PWIs, among other positive outcomes. component.” His desire to attend Andrew Arroyo, EdD, interim Morehouse was so strong that he did assistant vice provost for academic Tiago Rachelson, a sociology major at Morehouse College, was the subject of not even apply to other schools. programs and policy and associate a Vice News documentary on White “I know college is really professor of Educational student enrollment at historically Black colleges and universities. Via Vice News about getting an education, Leadership at Virginia but here you can get an Commonwealth University education academically as well (VCU), has written as an education through life,” extensively on the topic of his intentions and motivations. He Rachelson told Vice. White student and faculty recommends that all students, regardless When asked by a Black presence at HBCUs. Arroyo, of racial or ethnic background, base their classmate if he feels like Andrew who is White, served as a choice of college on their individual he belongs at Morehouse, Arroyo professor at two different needs and goals — not solely on Rachelson stated “I feel like I HBCUs prior to his current whether a school is an HBCU. belong here if I’m putting in position at VCU. His research “The one thing that I would say to the work. It’s that simple.” has focused in this area, and he White students is don’t take HBCUs Joshua Packwood, who rejected now has a daughter who attends an off your list. It’s not necessarily that a full-ride scholarship to Columbia historically Black college. they have to go out and seek an HBCU, University in favor of Morehouse, Being a part of an HBCU but they need to recognize that some became the first White valedictorian community as a White person requires of the best programs out there are at of an HBCU when he graduated “ensuring that your White privilege HBCUs, and they are some of the most in 2008. He has expressed a similar is checked,” Arroyo says. “Your first affordable institutions,” Arroyo says. The backlash to @_camillarose largely echoed this sentiment, with Being a part of an HBCU community as a White person requires many on social media pointing out “ensuring that your White privilege is checked,” Arroyo says. that her post made it appear as if her desire to attend Spelman was based “Your first stance is always going to be to listen, and you’re solely on the fact that it is an HBCU going to spend far more time listening than talking.” rather than on its prestigious academic reputation. She subsequently posted two lengthy apologies, stating in one that her “wanting to go to an HBCU is not something appropriate for me to view as Rachelson to the media. “For stance is always going to be to listen, center around myself, my experience, me, being the only one or one of few and you’re going to spend far more time my wants, my needs. … [M]e wanting [White students] was actually the key listening than talking.” to go to an HBCU is not a character/ part to why I wanted that experience, Arroyo admits he entered his faculty personal development camp.”● because I just thought that would positions at HBCUs “with certain be so transformative in how I would paradigms” of a White savior complex, Mariah Stewart is a senior staff writer think,” Packwood told CNN in 2016. but through time learned to self-check for INSIGHT Into Diversity.
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By Erik Cliburn
With technology becoming ever more integrated into education and business, a virtual reality (VR) technology boom is anticipated over the next several years. VR’s current $3 billion global market is expected to spike to $57.6 billion by 2027, according to a 2019 report by research and consulting firm Fortune Business Insights. That 1,860 percent increase does not even account for the COVID-19 pandemic, which will undoubtedly result in even more companies and consumers adopting VR as an essential tool, according to Forbes magazine.
Although this technology has be able to become comfortable with the happening in spaces that are supposed traditionally been associated with video uncomfortable to the point where they to be safe for our students.” games and entertainment, it might just can interact, engage, and intervene,” The researchers are working with be the future of education and workforce says Christine Hackman, PhD, Cal Poly Safer, an on-campus resource training — including in the area of associate professor of public health at for addressing sexual harassment and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Cal Poly and a project lead. assault, to gather data and explore how At California Polytechnic State In an immersive experience that gives current training on these topics can be University (Cal Poly), experts are users a safe space to make mistakes, the improved. They are also partnering with exploring how VR can combat intended messages may resonate more the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of the sexual harassment and violence as with trainees than in traditional sexual Central Coast and the San Luis Obispo well as promote LGBTQ inclusion. harassment and DEI trainings, she says. County Behavioral Health Department In December 2020, the university Research has long shown that to determine the content for the received a $45,000 grant from the conventional trainings, which often training screenplays. Public Interest Technology University include role play scenarios, tend to be Thanks to advancements in the Network to support a group of ineffective. While participants “are VR field and its rapidly growing interdisciplinary faculty members and easily taught to respond correctly to a popularity, the training modules students in researching how VR can questionnaire about bias,” they often developed by Cal Poly researchers will improve training in these areas. forget the lessons learned within a be accessible on most smartphones, The funding will be used to develop matter of days, according to a 2016 according to Werner. screenplays that portray scenarios article in the Harvard Business Review. “Virtual reality traditionally has of discrimination, harassment, and Traditional training also has the been very difficult for people to access bias, explains James Werner, EdD, a potential to do more harm than good. because it takes a big computer rig and project lead and associate professor Negative outcomes can include defensive you have to go to a place, sit down, and of media arts. The screenplays will reactions from White participants, a have someone facilitate the experience,” have branching narratives, or differing sense of resentment among coworkers he says. “Now, we’re in a place where we storylines, that are driven by users’ of different sociocultural identities, can compress it into an app and send it actions and their responses to different and the reinforcement of gender and out to reach millions of people.” situations. Because training is done racial stereotypes. If the project is successful, the individually rather than in a group “The biggest fear people have [when modules will likely be adopted for setting or class and is interactive versus it comes to DEI training], particularly use by Cal Poly and its community passive watching of video sessions, the White people, is making a mistake and partners, according to the researchers. situation at hand feels more personal. appearing racist,” says Coleen Carrigan, They hope to promote VR training’s “I think there are a lot of those PhD, a project lead and Cal Poly appeal so that it will eventually be used uncomfortable situations or those associate professor of anthropology. at higher education institutions and situations that are difficult to role play “VR allows people to have some privacy organizations across the country. and talk through. With [VR], people to work on these real-life scenarios and Many experts have predicted that can actually be immersed in these real- work through what it can feel like to VR will be the future of DEI training life, realistic situations and essentially try to interrupt some violence that is because it is engaging and personalized
insightintodiversity.com 33 What Does Virtual Reality Training Look Like?
Virtual reality (VR) can take different forms, from react to coworkers when they exhibit bias and smartphone apps that allow you to engage with discrimination and uses their mouse to click on a virtual environment in the palm of your hand to coworkers when they exhibit biased behavior. At the fully immersive experiences using headsets, hand end of each session, a virtual host tallies the number controllers, and other high-tech equipment. of times the user recognized biased behavior and Equal Reality, a company specializing in diversity, asks them to reflect on their experiences through a equity, and inclusion (DEI) training via VR, offers series of questions. Users can retake the sessions and clients different options when it comes to formats choose different reactions to see how their choices and DEI focus areas. Their website also offers a demo affect each situation. of their Everyday Inclusion training package, which Not all VR workplace training takes this same was developed in partnership with Cornell University. approach, however. DDI, a leadership consultant While the training is designed to be used with more company, created a DEI program that allows the user immersive VR technology, users can complete the to maintain their sociocultural identity, but flips the demo using their computer. typical power structure of the workplace. In a 2019 The training allows users to experience common article in Fortune magazine, Brian Ritchey, a White male workplace scenarios from different perspectives. In one chief operating officer and vice president of Ritchey scenario, the user assumes the role of Tamara, a Black Metals, shared his experience with the DDI training. His woman employee who overhears a group of coworkers session included experiencing what it was like to be the accusing their employer of choosing a “diversity only person of his sociocultural identity in a workplace hire” rather than promoting qualified internal meeting and to be repeatedly interrupted by coworkers employees to the position. Tamara also participates in while attempting to read a script provided by DDI. a team meeting to experience two more storylines, one In addition to participating in a virtual boardroom in which a male coworker steals a female coworker’s meeting, the DDI program had Ritchey confront a idea and a second in which Tamara’s boss asks her set of challenging situations that included being told to represent the team on their company’s diversity he was “too sensitive” when experiencing bias. “It’s committee. Users then participate in the same meeting really what it’s like to feel excluded at work,” Mina as Victor the boss, who is White and male. Sipe, a senior innovation consultant at DDI Labs who The user is given several options for how to developed the simulation, told Fortune.
and has measurable results, according VR Perspectives’ training focuses on existing workplace simulations. to a study by Future Workplace, a non-confrontational methods to help Beyond Ready CQ assesses business human resources advisory firm. Some users identify unconscious bias. Rather students’ cultural intelligence — or companies, such as tech firms Equal than telling the user how to react in CQ.— and tracks their growth Reality and VR Perspectives, already certain scenarios, it shows “how bias throughout their college career, offer workshops and training packages looks, feels, [and] how to identify Oakenfull says. to help employers teach about it and address it with appropriate In partnership with VR Perspectives, unconscious bias, issues of inclusion behavior,” its website states. FSB will implement simulations that for people with disabilities, and more. One of VR Perspectives’ newest allow students to “walk a mile” in Equal Reality counts Amazon, clients is the Farmer School of the shoes of someone of a different Google, the New York City Business (FSB) at Miami University race, gender, age, and ability level, she Department of Education and J.P. in Oxford, Ohio. Gillian Oakenfull, explains. The training is meant to Morgan among its clientele. In one PhD, the faculty director of diversity help users develop empathy and track Equal Reality case study, 97 percent and inclusion and an FSB professor, biases within simulated workplace of users said they found VR training used a $50,000 grant to implement and educational environments. Users more engaging than traditional VR training as part of the school’s can also be placed into a bystander techniques. Another study claims that fast-growing DEI program, Beyond scenario in which the situation unfolds VR training is effective at building Ready CQ. The school has partnered based on their actions. FSB conducts empathy, as 99 percent of users with VR Perspectives to develop and a survey after each training to gauge “understood and felt what it was like license DEI training simulations that the user’s experience and what they to be treated disrespectfully,” according take place in a virtual educational learned by confronting the world from to the company’s website. environment and to use the company’s another person’s viewpoint.
34 March 2021 “We’re using VR for perspective and empathy, FSB students will be taking,” Oakenfull says. “It’s very able to add credentials earned from difficult for somebody to understand participating in Beyond Ready CQ’s what the experience is for somebody Since FSB’s student VR training to their résumés. The [else]. By putting it into VR, by training will also be available to making it personal and by making it population is largely community members and business private, I can walk in their shoes.” composed of White leaders who wish to improve their Since FSB’s student population is men, it is especially cultural intelligence; they too will be largely composed of White men, it is able to add this innovative experience especially important to broaden their important to broaden to their résumés. worldview and provide DEI education their worldview Unlike the VR that is being that inspires true allyship for and provide DEI developed at Cal Poly, FSB’s training underrepresented and disadvantaged modules will be computer generated groups, Oakenfull says. education that and require a physical space. The In recent weeks, FSB has also inspires true allyship school hopes to begin sessions in partnered with Equal Reality, the for underrepresented spring or fall 2021, when COVID-19 company that initially piqued restrictions lift to make in-person Oakenfull’s interest in VR DEI and disadvantaged training viable, according to Oakenfall. training, she says. FSB and Equal groups, Oakenfull says. It will be available to more than 1,400 Reality will work together to develop undergraduate and graduate students VR and two-dimensional DEI training as well as faculty members.● specifically aimed at higher education. Beyond the inherent incentive Erik Cliburn is a senior staff writer for of developing cultural intelligence INSIGHT Into Diversity.
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Ushering in a New Era of Public Policy
Four years under the Trump administration has expertise and advocacy of public policy scholar demonstrated how speedily and drastically policy and educators to guide them going forward. The can change — and the real-life effects these changes professionals leading the way at public policy can have on our communities. From restrictive schools and programs must raise their voices and immigration laws and an anti-affirmative action continue to champion causes that promote public agenda to completely repealing protections for good, especially as we still contend with racial unrest, LGBTQ individuals, the Trump presidency was marked a global pandemic, and economic hardships abound. by the loss of civil rights for many Americans. In this issue of INSIGHT, we highlight the ways in With the election of President Joe Biden comes which public policy experts and higher education hope for improvement. His measures in reversing the programs are responding to the election of Biden Muslim travel ban and ensuring LGBTQ rights have and to the numerous crises affecting our country. already shown the possibilities this administration While public policy work is never-ending, there is will have in enacting change for the better. time to celebrate and look forward to the possibilities Of course, Biden and his team will still need the for unity and healing that the future has in store.
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University of Michigan Public Policy Professor Brings Expertise on Equity in Transportation to Biden Administration
Robert Hampshire, an associate food insecurity and transportation supplies without being exposed to professor of public policy at the barriers, assist a Detroit pilot program the coronavirus. The reasons for food University of Michigan Gerald R. in delivering school lunches to insecurity may vary — from students Ford School of Public Policy, or the vulnerable families, and develop a dependent on school lunch to seniors Ford School, was recently appointed website and database that compiles without smartphones or internet access by the Biden administration to serve COVID-19-related food insecurity to order delivery or use online payment as principal deputy assistant secretary data, according to an article on the Ford systems,” he said. for research and technology at the U.S. School News website. The NSF has supported Hampshire in Department of Transportation (DOT). researching how driverless vehicles and In his new position, Hampshire is other innovative forms of transportation responsible for research, development, can address societal inequities. and technology for the DOT Additionally, he recently secured a University Transportation Center grant from the New Venture Fund to program. The program includes 40 identify constraints faced by people colleges and universities that work of color in the field of public interest together to advance research on the technology, a relatively new discipline “safe, efficient, and environmentally focused on the study and development friendly transportation of people and of technology that advances social goods,” according to the department’s justice and the common good. From website. Hampshire’s position also 2009 to 2012, Hampshire was the includes oversight of the Bureau of program chair of the Minority Transportation Statistics, the Volpe Issues Forum at the Institute for National Transportation Systems Center, Operations Research and Management and the Transportation Safety Institute. Science, and in 2017 he organized Hampshire’s unique background the 23rd annual Conference for in researching issues of equity, Robert Hampshire African American Researchers in the technology, and public policy as they Mathematical Sciences. relate to transportation will be a “The Ford School community is valuable addition to the DOT, Jim very proud of [Hampshire] and the Sayer, director of the University of Hunger during the pandemic is values and skills he’s bringing to his Michigan’s Transportation Research closely related to transportation and important new role with the Biden Institute, said in a news release. public policy issues because many administration,” Michael Barr, dean “[Hampshire] understands that underserved families have to rely of the Ford School, said in a news communities with inadequate access primarily on public transit to buy food, release. “Robert’s expertise and his to transportation results in negative Hampshire told the news service. deep commitment to equity, access, impacts on peoples’ lives in terms of “Low-income households have fewer and justice will improve transportation employment, their access to medical options to secure food and other basic policy for all Americans.”● care and healthy foods, and overall quality of life,” Sayer said. Hampshire has spearheaded Systemic racism may be an embedded element of city multiple projects that address social infrastructure, according to a recent study published in the inequities related to issues of accessible Journal of Construction and Engineering Management. The transportation. In June 2020, he secured paper’s research discovered that restrictive infrastructure a National Science Foundation (NSF) within lower-income and underrepresented communities is RAPID grant to address hunger associated with reduced access to transportation and as a caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. result, lower socioeconomic well-being. The funding allowed him to identify geographical areas most affected by
38 March 2021 Georgetown and Howard Universities Form Partnership Focused on Public Policy
On February 1, leaders at the accepted into one of the McCourt Along with the new scholarship Georgetown University McCourt School’s graduate degree programs program, the collaborative agreement School of Public Policy and Howard specializing in public policy, data is meant to encourage joint research University signed a memorandum of science for public policy, policy efforts between McCourt School and understanding to work together in management, or international Howard faculty. Howard researchers furthering collaborative programs and development policy. will have access to Georgetown’s research between their two institutions. As Howard is one of the nation’s Research Data Center at McCourt’s “This agreement deepens the most preeminent historically Black Massive Data Institute. Access to the relationship between Howard universities, its partnership with the lab, which is a joint project by the and Georgetown, two preeminent McCourt School will have the added U.S. Census Bureau and the Massive institutions committed to service and benefit of diversifying the field of Data Institute, requires researchers to scholarship in the name of improving public policy and administration. undergo security clearance, even after our local and global communities,” “The McCourt School aspires to be research projects are approved, in order Howard University Provost and Chief the most inclusive top public policy to work on restricted data sets. Academic Officer Anthony Wutoh said program in the world,” Maria Cancian, Other potential collaborations in a press release. the school’s dean, said in the release. between the two Washington D.C.- Most notably, the joint agreement “The creation of the Howard Scholar at based institutions include joint launched the Howard Scholar at McCourt program will help us deliver coursework, seminars, and conferences, McCourt program. This offers full- on our commitment to broadening according to the press release.● tuition scholarships for Howard the diversity of perspective and life students and graduates who are experience at McCourt.”
ASU Releases Foundational Study on Housing Solutions for Autistic Adults
The Arizona State University (ASU) parents, researchers, and policymakers to support this vulnerable population, Morrison Institute for Public Policy when it comes to this particular aspect especially as an estimated 50,000 published a report in January that of housing access. young people with Autism graduate is expected to be a pivotal resource According to the report, housing high school — effectively entering on housing solutions for adults with shortages for adults with Autism adulthood — each year. Autism and other intellectual and and intellectual and developmental The university partnered with developmental disabilities. disabilities are a nationwide problem. Autism advocate and marketing experts The Morrison Institute for Public As a result, these individuals are Denise Resnik, an ASU alum, to create Policy is a research center within ASU’s often forced to be institutionalized the study. Resnik is CEO of First Place Watts College of Public Service and in mental health hospitals. Many live AZ, a nonprofit that supports housing Community Solutions. with family members — often older and development for Autistic adults. The report, titled “A Place in parents who may not be adequate She is also is co-founder and board the World: Fueling Housing and caretakers — which robs them of their member emeritus of the Southwest Community Options for Adults with independence as well as prevents them Autism Research & Resource Center, a Autism and Other Neurodiversities,” from getting more adequate daily nonprofit dedicated to autism research, provides common terminology and assistance. The report notes that this education, and community outreach.● principles that can serve as standard is a significant public policy challenge guidelines for the housing industry, that must be addressed if the U.S. is
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40 March 2021 Social Justice Education in Public Policy Schools is Crucial for the Nation’s Future By Erik Cliburn and Mariah Bohanon
After watching in horror the program and an associate professor NASPAA, having 317 member murder of George Floyd by police at the University of Cincinnati (UC) institutions across 25 countries, officers last May, RaJade Berry- as well as a fellow member of the realized that it had a responsibility James, PhD, promised her two NASPAA Executive Council. As toward its members, students, and the teenage daughters that she would do institutions and businesses issued public to achieve this goal. everything in her power to make the messages of solidarity with the Black One of its first steps was forming United States a better, more equitable community after Floyd’s murder the NASPAA Task Force on Diversity, place for them to live. and repeated police violence against Equity, and Inclusion, which was As an educator in public policy, African Americans, she shared in created in direct response “to the Berry-James knows that she is in a Berry-James’ desire to see real change. killing of George Floyd and a desire unique position to make such change “One of the things that really for NASPAA to move toward possible. She is an associate professor frustrated me over the summer was intentional actions to become a in the North Carolina State University that lots of institutions felt the need model for member institutions in School of Public and International to respond in the moment with a the fight against anti-Black racism, Affairs (NC State SPIA) and a statement,” Blessett says. “[Some of ] discrimination, and inequity,” the member of the Executive Council those statements were superficial in association’s website states. of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), which oversees and accredits public policy schools on a Black Representation in Public Policy Education global scale. Much of her career has While a 2018-2019 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and been dedicated to ensuring that her Administration (NASPAA) study of 30 U.S. degree programs found that students — the nation’s future civic more Asian American, Latinx, and international enrollment students are leaders and policymakers — understand pursuing public administration careers, Black student enrollment actually racial and social justice issues. decreased by 0.1 percent from the previous academic year. African American men had the steepest decline, at 8.6 percent. By contrast, With the unjust death of Floyd Latinx men had the highest growth in enrollment, at 11.5 percent. so fresh on everyone’s minds, it is imperative that public policy educators Black faculty, at 9 percent, are the second largest racial group in the seize the current moment to break public policy educator workforce after White faculty, at 72 percent. down institutional barriers and address long overdue reforms, says Berry-James. “Going forward, our curricula changes must advance our the fact that they were not associated The task force was composed of understanding of social equity and with resources and/or an action plan six members of NASPAA’s Diversity social justice, develop culturally to actually manifest the things they and Social Equity Committee and six competent professionals, and address professed in response to valuing members of the Executive Council. critical issues in the public sector,” Black lives.” The group spent several months she says. “Our students must be Berry-James, Blessett, and fellow developing a report on the association’s trained to identify problems as well as members of NASPAA decided that commitment to diversity, equity, and develop strategies to critically analyze it was time to take concrete action inclusion (DEI) and proposing a oppression.” to lead the field of public policy comprehensive framework and action Brandi Blessett, PhD, is director of education toward becoming a more plan. Released in September, the the Master of Public Administration socially aware, progressive discipline. report is meant to hold NASPAA
insightintodiversity.com 41 accountable for committing to its professed DEI principles while also providing an example for its member institutions, explains Laura Bloomberg, PhD, NASPAA President and dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. The report states that the association “has publicly committed to do all in [its] power” to, among other goals, dismantle systemic racism, advance policy solutions to stop police brutality against Black people, and create a “new, inclusive civic square consistent with SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY our public service values.” Some of the task force’s IS ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE specific recommendations include developing DEI training for NASPAA executives and member schools STATE UNIVERSITIES IN and supporting minority-serving institutions through THE COMMONWEALTH OF concrete actions such as expanding membership MASSACHUSETTS and accreditation for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). We are a proud and diverse community of students and scholars. Learn about our community at salemstate.edu/salem-state-difference. We look forward to meeting you! Women in Public Policy Programs In the 2018-2019 academic year, six in 10 public policy students were women, according to a study salemstate.edu of 30 U.S. degree programs by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration. Studies from the 2009-2010 and 1999-2000 school years show the same ratio. Master of Public Administration from the College of Charleston
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Of course, NASPAA’s DEI report also addresses CChhaannggee MMaakkeerrss diversity among administrators, faculty, and students. The association identifies assessment and evaluation of diversity Explore Ideas. Build Community. Promote Justice within member schools as one target area for improvement. It also states a commitment to seeking funding for the Home of the Riley recruitment and support of underrepresented students in Center for Livable public policy graduate programs. Another mission NASPAA pledges to uphold is to Communities “provide transformative and inclusive education.” The task force has recommended, for example, that the association’s #1 Ranked MPA accreditation process emphasize equity in curricula and Program in S.C. cultural competence in student learning outcomes. Bloomberg, who lives in Minneapolis just three miles One of the Best from where Floyd was killed, says public policy schools Public Affairs and programs striving to meet these standards can begin Programs 2020, by evaluating their own internal commitment to DEI. An easy first step is having professors examine the diversity U.S. News and RYAN GREEN, MPA '21 of their course readings. As it stands, the vast majority of World Report assigned reading in the public policy and administration discipline is written by White men, she says. “We should all take a critical look at what we are asking students to read in terms of literature in our field and how homogeneous or heterogeneous is the puba.cofc.edu | [email protected] riley.cofc.edu | [email protected] 843.953.6690 843.953.6100
42 March 2021 authorship. That’s something that to vulnerable communities,” she says. has been increasing its focus on DEI every class instructor could do right “You can’t be a public service for the past decade. When she first now,” says Bloomberg. professional and not have the history joined the school in 2010 as the Blesset says that a key element and context of how we got to this director of the graduate program, she for furthering these new DEI goals, state and the role of institutions and added four new courses focused on for both NASPAA and its member government in creating differential cultural awareness and social justice. schools, is funding. Real change opportunities for people who are not Advancing student understanding of requires investment in actions White, not male, not heterosexual, these issues is a continual process and such as providing DEI training for and not able-bodied,” says Blesset. one that requires diligence on the part faculty and administrators, bringing “Those differentials matter, and of administrators and faculty. in diverse guest speakers, and students need to be prepared to deal “The future of public diversifying curriculums, she says. with that.” administration cannot be like the It is possible for schools to achieve Public administration programs history of the United States,” she this level of transformation if they that have not prioritized DEI says. “We must develop an anti-racist approach public policy education education in the past but are seeking curriculum, one that describes social through a social justice lens, according to transform may need to evaluate injustice, explores social inequity, and to Blesset. The master’s program which of their course offerings take explains administrative failures.”● that she directs at UC is rooted “in priority, Bloomberg says. It might be understanding the ways in which necessary to replace some classes in Erik Cliburn is a senior staff writer systemic oppression has manifested order to ensure that social justice is a for and Mariah Bohanon is the senior itself through our public institutions key component of students’ education. editor of INSIGHT Into Diversity. and the way administrators respond Berry-James says NC State SPIA
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Renowned Public Policy Institute Uses Research to Advocate for LGBTQ Equality
By Lisa O’Malley and Mariah Bohanon
44 March 2021 Protecting the rights of LGBTQ Orientation and Gender Identity Law Americans is one of the greatest and Public Policy at the University public policy challenges of the 21st of California, Los Angeles School of Biden ADMINISTRATION century. While countless advocates Law. Founded in 2001, the institute Among the recent advancements and researchers struggle to develop is a public policy think tank that for LGBTQ rights and and enact policies to ensure equality specializes in independent research and representation enacted by and promote the well-being of this has played a pivotal role in advancing the Biden administration is the appointment of several population, anti-LGBTQ activists knowledge and awareness of LGBTQ LGBTQ individuals to high-level and politicians still hold positions of issues. Its major achievements include positions, including: power across the U.S. These individuals conducting the first data-backed have the ability to easily strip away estimate on the LGBTQ population in Pete Buttigieg hard-won rights, as is evidenced, for the U.S. in 2011. The institute found U.S. Transportation Secretary example, by President Donald Trump’s that 9 million Americans identified as Rachel Levine decision to ban transgender Americans lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health from serving in the armed forces. In Prior to the release of the report, the total, Trump and his administration most up-to-date estimates on the size Carlos Elizondo issued more than 180 anti-LGBTQ of this population were based on studies White House Social Secretary statements and actions during his conducted by noted researcher Alfred Karine Jean-Pierre four years in office, according to the Kinsey in 1948. Deputy White House Press Secretary advocacy group GLAAD. The Williams Institute doesn’t stop By stark contrast, The Washington with collecting research; it also works Post has described President Joe diligently to ensure the information is Biden’s “ambitious LGBT agenda” as a received by the people who have the sign that he “may be the most pro- greatest influence on public policy. The Institute scholars released a report equality president in history.” Within institute sends its important findings that estimated nearly 700,000 U.S. days of assuming the presidency, Biden to “policymakers, judges, the media, adults have undergone conversion reversed the transgender military and other stakeholders to ensure that therapy, mostly as minors. The practice, ban and issued an executive order decisions impacting the lives of millions which aims to change a person’s sexual protecting LGBTQ people from of LGBT people and families are based orientation or gender identity, has been discrimination in education, health on data and facts,” its website states. outlawed in multiple states and cities care, and the workplace. Additional In 2018, for example, Williams for its extremely harmful effects on orders restoring and promoting mental health. The report was included LGBTQ civil rights soon followed. in a presentation to the United Nations The swiftness with which politicians Since its landmark report on Human Rights Council, with a U.N. can harm or help an underserved the population size of LGBTQ Independent Expert calling for a ban population perfectly demonstrates just Americans in 2011, the Williams on the practice. Institute on Sexual Orientation how powerful public policy can be Also in 2018, the institute and Gender Identity Law and in ensuring civil rights and equality. Public Policy has continued conducted a study on police relations Creating these protections, however, to research the size of this with the LGBTQ community in wouldn’t be possible without the community. A study released Jacksonville, Florida after four work of scholar advocates and the in April 2020 estimates that transgender women became the higher education institutions and there are 13 million people ages victims of gun violence. Advocates organizations support them. 13 and older in the U.S. who accused law enforcement of identify as LGBTQ. Among the most prestigious and mishandling the cases, including influential of these organizations misgendering the victims. Using is the Williams Institute on Sexual information from the Williams
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The Williams Institutes’ report on Black LGBTQ adults studied several aspects of personal well- being, including mental, physical, and economic health as well as social and cultural experiences. The results show that these adults fare worse than Offers graduate degrees in straight and cisgender African Americans when it comes to employment, income level, food security, international affairs and public policy and health care access.
Additional key findings include: • 1.2 million Black LGBTQ adults live in the U.S. • 36 percent are raising children • 79 percent report facing verbal insults or abuse • 60 percent report being threatened with violence • 26 percent have been diagnosed with depression The Center for Faculty • 56 percent of Black LGBTQ households are low-income Roughly half of our Diversity and Inclusion students from the works collaboratively to United States are from cultivate an academic underrepresented groups culture of excellence Institute’s report, the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office established LGBTQ-focused training, an outreach group, and new guidelines on how to refer to transgender individuals. Recently, institute scholars have released major findings on the ways in which LGBTQ people of color continue to suffer under inadequate Approximately 7 percent of public health, housing, lesbian, gay, and bisexual and similar policies. people in the U.S. have UC San Diego ranked by Washington A January 2021 undergone conversion Monthly as the top public university for Williams Institute therapy, according to a social mobility, research and public service report on Black study by the Williams LGBTQ adults in the Institute. Researchers U.S. shows that these also found that those who undergo conversion individuals experience therapy are twice as likely higher levels of to attempt suicide. economic insecurity and greater health disparities compared PPIA Public Service Tribal Member Initiative with straight and cisgender African Americans. Weekend mentors offers full fellowship Researchers concluded that existing public resources for underrepresented for graduate students the Black LGBTQ population are insufficient and that undergraduate students of Native American, better government and community support is necessary interested in learning Alaska Native and Native for protecting their mental health and personal safety. more about policy making Hawaiian ancestry “The notable disparities in economic security and health outcomes indicate a critical need for policies and service interventions that address the unique needs of Black LGBT[Q] adults,” Soon Kyu Choi, lead author of the report and project manager at the Williams Institute, said in a press release.●
Lisa O’Mally is the assistant editor of INSIGHT Into gps.ucsd.edu Diversity. Mariah Bohanon is the senior editor of INSIGHT.
46 March 2021 COMMITTED TO INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE
Clemson University has been a top-ranked public university by U.S. News & World Report for 13 consecutive years. The University has been classified as a Carnegie R1 research university that creates economic opportunities. Faculty, staff and students contribute to Clemson’s national reputation as a great place to study, live and work, and the University invites others to learn more about career opportunities at clemson.edu/careers. To promote inclusive excellence, the University’s Men of Color National Summit works to increase the number of African American and Hispanic males who finish high school and complete college.
CLEMSON LEADING THE WAY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY • Call Me MISTER® increases the pool of available teachers from a broader, more diverse background. • The Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education examines issues that impact the educational experiences of African Americans. MEN OF • Clemson Career Workshop supports college readiness of high- COLOR achieving students from diverse populations. NATIONAL SUMMIT • Emerging Scholars helps establish a college-going culture among students from the state’s economically disadvantaged areas. The summit is open to high school • The Erwin Center Summer Scholars Program gives students from and college students, community HBCUs and other universities an opportunity to engage with marketing, leaders and professionals. advertising and communication professionals. • The Harvey and Lucinda Gantt Multicultural Center supports and advocates for all Clemson students’ needs while providing diverse and SAVE THE DATE experiential learning opportunities. Men of Color National Summit • PEER/WISE provides collaborative experiences for underrepresented November 4-5, 2021 students and women in science and engineering. • Tiger Alliance mentors and prepares African American and Hispanic high school males for college entrance and success.
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Ohio University (OHIO) celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2021, with a unique twist on the day’s traditional events to allow for social distancing due to COVID-19 restrictions. “This year’s MLK celebration looks different than in years past, but we remain unwavering in our dedication to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service and action,” Gigi Secuban, EdD, OHIO vice president of diversity and inclusion, stated. Members of the university and local community were able to safely gather together at a large drive-in celebration at OHIO’s Peden Stadium. The event featured OHIO alumnus and Emmy- nominated CBS News journalist Jericka Duncan as a speaker and included a free brunch that participants could enjoy from their vehicles. Duncan’s speech and student song and dance performances were aired on the stadium big screen. Like at a drive-in movie theater, attendees could listen to the event through their car radios. It was also available on Facebook Live. “Today, we renew our resolve to act together as one community, to create an anti-racist, inclusive and equitable OHIO and Athens community in which all can be safe, grow, thrive and realize their potential,” Secuban announced during the event. The university hosted other virtual and socially distanced events throughout the course of the week. Students and alumni of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, a historically Black fraternity, held a silent march. Other programs included a trivia night and workshops that focused on self- care, activism, community, and the arts.●
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