Is It All for Naught? Inadequate Changes on Campus Without Equity-Minded Governance and Decision-Making

• In Event: Imagined Futures for Higher Education: Transforming Our Racialized Organizations Toward Racial Justice

Abstract

We are again in a historical time of change prompted by racial social movements, specifically the Black Lives Matter movement, where higher education leaders are returning to conversations about equity. Although many leaders and institutions are committed to racial diversity and equity, structurally institutions remain largely unchanged. Central to this symposium is the possibility of racially just transformative change of higher education (Patton & Haynes, 2018; Stewart, 2018). This symposia is a conversation with higher education scholars reflecting on and imagining how to transform our institutions, as racialized organizations (Ray, 2019), to be racially just. If we don’t seize this opportune time to examine the prevailing racism of our universities, we fail to alter the white supremacist core of our institutions.

Author

• Raquel M. Rall, University of California - Riverside