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New CUE Publications
Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice
 In a new book, "Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice," co-editors Estela Mara Bensimon and Lindsey Malcom discuss the theory behind the Equity Scorecard™, an organizational learning and change model designed to assist colleges in creating equitable outcomes for underserved student populations. The Equity Scorecard™ process involves the formation of institutional evidence teams that look at disaggregated student performance data, examine classroom and campus practices, and use the results to develop interventions that will improve outcomes for minority students. Since its inception in 1999, Center for Urban Education (CUE) researchers have worked with over one hundred two- and four-year institutions. Of these, nearly seventy have participated in the Equity Scorecard™ process to close equity gaps and meet the Obama administration's college completion goals. Dr. Bensimon is a professor of higher education at USC's Rossier School of Education and CUE's co-director, while Dr. Malcom is an assistant professor at George Washington University's Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Table of Contents: Part I - Theory, Organizational Learning, and Tools and Practices of Equity Scorecard 1. The Equity Scorecard: Theory of Change - Estela Mara Bensimon 2. Scorecard Teams as High Learning Groups: Group Learning and the Value of Group Learning - Georgia L. Lorenz 3. The Equity Scorecard Process: Tools, Practices, and Methods - Estela Mara Bensimon and Debbie Hanson Peterson Part II - Practitioner Experiences of the Equity Scorecard
4. The Diversity Scorecard at Loyola Marymount University: An Exemplary Model of Dissemination - Abbie Robinson-Armstrong, Andrea Clemons, Matthew Fissinger and Marshall Sauceda 5. Faculty Learning and Reflection from Student Interviews - Laura Palucki Blake, Edlyn Vallejo Peņa, Diana Akiyama, Elizabeth Braker, Donna Kay Maeda, Michael A. McDonald, Gretchen North, John Swift, Michael Tamada, and Karen Yoshino 6. The Math Project at Los Angeles City College - Leticia Tomas Bustillos and Robert Rueda with Don Hentschel, Daryl Kinney, Janice Love, Iris Magee, Naeemah Payne, Hector Plotquin, and Roger Wolf 7. Evaluating the Equity Scorecard Project: The Participants' Points of View - Edlyn Vallejo Peņa and Donald E. Polkinghorne Part III - Researcher Perspective. What We've Learned about Organizational Learning to Create Equity from the Equity Scorecard Process
8. An Activity-Based Approach to Promoting Equity in Community College Settings: Considering Process and Outcomes - Robert Rueda 9. Institutional Researchers as Teachers and Equity Advocates: Facilitating Organizational Learning and Change - Alicia C. Dowd, Lindsey Malcom, Jonathan Nakamoto, Estela Mara Bensimon 10. The Mediational Means of Enacting Equity-Mindedness among Community College Practitioners - Estela Mara Bensimon and Frank Harris III 11. The Equity Scorecard: Chronicling the Change Process - Edlyn Vallejo Peņa, Frank Harris III, and Estela Mara Bensimon 12. Reflections from the Field - Georgia L. Lorenz Reviews: "Why do students of color fail to thrive under our current system of higher education? That's the question this book asks. And in answering that question, it provides evidence from action research not just on causes, but on solutions. Delineating how we can reduce equity gaps, it also shows how we might use American higher education as a tool to radically transform our culture into one that truly values equality, in word and in deed." - David A. Longanecker, President, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education "With the publication of this book, higher education leaders at all levels have access to the theory of change and the data tools that are needed to close the equity gap in access and completion for underrepresented students."
- Vicki C. Washington, Associate Vice President, Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Wisconsin System. Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice Edited by: Estela Mara Bensimon, Lindsey Malcom Foreword by: David A. Longanecker ISBN: 9781579227074 2012 $35.00 (Paperback), $89.95 (Hardback) Click here for details about this book and purchasing information.
"Creating a Culture of Inquiry around Equity and Student Success" in Creating Campus Cultures, Fostering Success among Racially Diverse Student Populations
 In their chapter "Creating a Culture of Inquiry around Equity and Student Success" co-authors Keith A. Witham and Estela Mara Bensimon argue that creating a culture of inquiry can help public postsecondary institutions better respond to external pressures calling for more accountability, increased productivity and higher graduation rates. They distinguish a culture of inquiry from a culture of evidence, positing that it is people, not data, who create change--in themselves and in the organizations in which they work. They define a culture of inquiry as one that "questions institutional values, assumptions and theories of action...." They examine the learning process in academic organizations and how it can be leveraged to change policies that relate to racial and ethnic equity. Examples from CUE's own work with colleges are used to show how institutions may use equity-focused data practices as a stepping stone to building a culture of inquiry. Creating Campus Cultures, Fostering Success among Racially Diverse Student Populations Edited by: Samuel D. Museus, Uma M. Jayakumar Chapter 3: Creating a Culture of Inquiry around Equity and Student Success By: Keith A. Witham and Estela Mara Bensimon ISBN: 9780415888196 2012 $44.95 (Paperback), $140.00 (Hardback) Click here for details about this book and purchasing information. A complimentary examination copy is also available. "Accountability for Equity in Postsecondary Education" in Urban Education: A Model for Leadership and Policy  USC Rossier School of Education Dean Karen Symms Gallagher co-edited a book entitled Urban Education: A Model for Leadership and Policy, which explores the importance of equity in urban education and provides a three-part conceptual model of urban education that stresses accountability, leadership and learning.
In "Accountability for Equity in Postsecondary Education," co-authors Alicia C. Dowd, Robin Bishop, Estela Mara Bensimon and Keith Witham examine the artifacts of higher education to understand how racial and ethnic stratification evolved and how action research methodology can achieve racial equity in outcomes through the remediation of artifacts of professional practice. Urban Education: A Model for Leadership and Policy Edited by: Karen Symms Gallagher, Rodney Goodyear, Dominic J. Brewer, Robert Rueda Chapter 13: Accountability for Equity in Postsecondary Education By: Alicia C. Dowd, Robin Bishop, Estela Mara Bensimon and Keith Witham ISBN: 9780415872409 2011 $89.95 (Paperback), $225.00 (Hardback) Click here for details about this book and purchasing information. A complimentary examination copy is also available. | 
