By Camry Wilborn-Mercer Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity & Opportunity RALEIGH (November 27, 2024) – If North Carolina is serious about creating an education system that serves all students, then building a diverse, representative teacher workforce must be a central priority. Research, history, and lived experience show that teacher diversity enhances academic success while… READ MORE
Does everyone feel welcome at UNC schools?
RALEIGH (September 13, 2024) – People go where they feel welcome. The question, after the UNC Board of Governors repealed the UNC System’s policy on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is whether they will. The Board of Governors received a report this week on efforts at each UNC System campus to eliminate DEI offices since the… READ MORE
Run government like a business? Pay attention to DEI
RALEIGH (June 13, 2024) – News Item: “Across U.S. corporations, 72% of C-suite and HR leaders intend to increase their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the next two years, and only 4% plan to cut back or eliminate programs.” Then why, pray tell, are the people who say government – including state… READ MORE
Sending ‘the wrong message’
RALEIGH (May 24, 2024) – It’s 0.17% of NC State University’s budget. A report last week revealed that NC State likely spends more on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs than any other university in the 17-campus UNC System – $3.4 million in 2022-23. Yet that amounts to “less than one fifth of 1 percent… READ MORE
Board of Governors: Please hit pause
By Dr. Barbara K. Rimer Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (April 25, 2024) – I am not a Tar Heel born and bred, as the fight song goes, but I am a Tar Heel through and through. I love UNC-Chapel Hill and the state. For 17… READ MORE
Questions on DEI: What’s changed?
RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – As we approach a vote by the UNC Board of Governors next month to repeal a 2019 policy that requires UNC campuses to hire diversity officers and work toward diversity,1 a few observations and a few questions: 10 members of the Board of Governors voted in September 2019 to adopt the… READ MORE
The imperative of a sound basic education
By Deanna Townsend-Smith, Ed.D. RALEIGH (March 6, 2024) – Black History Month was an opportunity to reflect on the past and to imagine the possibility and benefits of maintaining a diverse society. It was also a month when the N.C. Supreme Court heard – for the fifth time – arguments over whether the state of North… READ MORE
Paul Fulton, 1993: Strategic diversity in the modern workplace
EDITOR’S NOTE: As President of Sara Lee Corporation, Paul Fulton penned these words in the early 1990s. Thirty years later, they are just as relevant. Fulton is the founder and Chair of Higher Ed Works. By Paul Fulton CHICAGO – In a recent report, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by the year 2050, African-Americans,… READ MORE
Public universities remain affordable, available
By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (July 13, 2023) – Two recent decisions by the US Supreme Court — one ending affirmative action in college admissions and the other quashing President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions in student loan debt — reignited debates about who gets into selective colleges and who shoulders the burden of… READ MORE
Johnson and Parnell: Shortsighted decision
By James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., and Allan M. Parnell, Ph.D. CHAPEL HILL (July 6, 2023) – Affirmative action was the legal remedy ending decades of racial discrimination in college admissions. It increased higher education access and opportunities long denied to African-Americans, Latinos, and other people of color. If, as expected, the Supreme Court’s decision… READ MORE
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