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New CUE Publication
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.
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.
Purchasing Information:
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)
20% discount available until June 1, 2012. Use Code CEIC12 when ordering.
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