Organizational and State Predictors of Reparations Engagement Among Pre-Civil War Higher Education Institutions

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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 racialized organizations theory (Ray, 2019), a discrete-time hazard model was utilized to predict whether a higher education institution established prior to the Civil War engaged in at least 3 university reparations based on time, organizational, and state factors. Preliminary results show that membership in the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, engaging in university research through a commission and non-commission structure, and the state population percentage of white people predicted the odds of a pre-Civil War higher education institution engaging in at least three reparations.

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