Organizational Predictors of First Reparations Engagement Among Pre–Civil War Higher Education Institutions

• In Event: Racialized Funding: Federal and Institutional Mechanisms for Addressing Educational Equity

Abstract

The call for many higher education institutions to atone for their histories of
enslavement is rapidly growing. Prior reparations research, however, has primarily focused on
reparations at the federal level. Grounded in Rodriguez, Deane, and Davis III’s (2022)
framework of racialized policymaking in higher education, a discrete-time hazard model was
utilized to predict whether a higher education institution established prior to the Civil War
engaged in university reparations based on time and organizational factors. Preliminary results
show that Carnegie Classification (doctoral university), endowment, membership in the
Universities Studying Slavery consortium, and time all predicted the odds of a pre-Civil War
higher education institution engaging in their first reparation. Implications for research, policy,
and practice will be discussed.

Authors

• Juan C. Garibay, University of Virginia

• Amalia Z. Dache, University of Pennsylvania

• Danielle A. Moore-Lewis, University of Virginia

• Jonathon Sun, University of Pennsylvania