The gap in equity for women in leadership roles continues to be disparate from the representation of women in the workforce and even greater for women in healthcare. Equity in leadership in healthcare is driven by policies, procedures, and programs to intentionally promote and h…
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The racial and cultural climates at predominantly White institutions of higher education have a history of being unwelcoming and unsupportive of administrators and leaders of color. Leaders of color have filled a majority of the leadership positions charged with advancing divers…
The intent of this qualitative critical incident study was to explore the interpretation of equity by White equity-trained suburban educators (WETSE) and minoritized parents (MP) in a Midwestern suburban school district to address and change inequitable student outcomes. WETSE a…
One of the great failures, so far, of the United States experiment with democracy is the failure to ensure that every child receives an equitable educational experience. This study was conducted to contribute both to scholarship and to educational practices aimed at correcting y…
American K-12 teachers, approximately 80% of whom are White, typically arrive to their first professional teaching position with little experience interacting with students of color and even less training in asset-based pedagogical models. In response, some school leaders that h…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between intra-district per-pupil expenditures in five middle schools in within the same school division using an equity audit. Broadly, the distribution of resources was examined. Specifically, how intradistrict per-pupil…
While the wind band is known for programming new works by contemporary composers, this thesis explores wind band programming in terms of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Community resources such as composer databases, newspapers and blogs, and social media express the classical…
This study will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion issues through the lived experiences of five executive Latinx leaders that serve (as a dean or above) in the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). There exists a lacuna of Latinx within the executive ranks…
Racist laws and subsequent educational policies and practices have resulted in schools in the United States failing to teach Black students reading. Historically, a racial achievement gap in elementary reading has existed throughout the history of the United States and has persi…
The history of the United States is rooted in differences and actions that has culminated in the current reality of culturally incompetent behaviors with a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion prevailing in organizations and society. Through a cultural competence conceptual …
This research utilized Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory and Cummins’ (1996) coercive and collaborative relations of power framework to explore the experiences of five students who self-identify with multiple cultural identities and who have graduated from the public-school sy…
When he was named New York City schools Chancellor in 2018, Richard Carranza promised to advance equity for the city’s 1.1M students. Shortly thereafter, despite substantial budget cuts at City Hall, his First Deputy Chancellor, Cheryl Watson-Harris, secured 10M to launch Academ…
This capstone outlines my strategic project on advancing the work of opening a dual-language school, beginning at the elementary level, in Bellingham Public Schools. The school district currently has a well-defined support program for English-language learners, the largest numbe…
The purpose of this dissertation is to amplify the voices of college algebra students to inform researchers, administrators, and educators to make college algebra more equitable. Nearly 50% of college algebra students fail the course at least once, and many of these students are…
Studies have shown that communities of color and low-income populations are likely to live in neighborhoods that lack access to quality green spaces, unable to directly benefit from the environmental, recreational, and cultural services they provide. The goal of this research wa…
This qualitative study examined how school districts define and address diversity by analyzing the diversity, equity and inclusion-related content of twelve high school district websites in Illinois. Cox’s change model for work on diversity (2001) was used as a theoretical frame…
In this project, the research team investigates the level of equity and adequacy in the Missouri Foundation Formula, which is the basis for public school funding in the state of Missouri. To determine to what extent the Foundation Formula is equitable, the research team employs …
Throughout the history of the United States, tests have been utilized as a means to exclude and marginalize immigrant and minority populations, and in the absence of a national language policy have served as de facto language policy. English Learners (ELs) have been among the fa…
Inspired in part by student activists at the University of Missouri who protested against the pervasive racism faced by students of color on campus, student groups at over 80 colleges across the United States submitted lists of demands to their own institutions in the fall of 20…