Speakers: Prof. Mark Overmeyer-Velazquez, Dr. Maria Arruda, Mary Tupan-Wenno

Facilitator: Pravini Baboeram-Mahes

Description: Recently, student movements and uprisings in the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other nations demanded justice reform addressing systemic forms of racial oppression. In this session, participants will hear perspectives from partners in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands around current contexts, challenges, and opportunities facing researchers, practitioners, and administrators in advancing justice for racially and ethnically minoritized populations.

Speakers: Prof. Michael Bradford, Stacy Johnson, Dr. Ismintha Waldring

Facilitator: Pravini Baboeram-Mahes

Description: Building on the first session on regional context setting, this panel will integrate regional context and apply it to higher education as a system. Panelists will discuss the status of access, success, and racial equity in higher education systems in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, how institutions have been attempting to address access and success in higher education for racially and ethnically minoritized communities, and what efforts have been effective. 

Speakers: Dr. Frank Tuitt, Prof. Ruard Ganzevoort, Prof. Lucy Donaldson

Facilitator: Pravini Baboeram-Mahes

Description: In this critical juncture in our individual societies where anti-Blackness and anti-Asian violence is rampant, yet becoming more transparent; higher education institutions have the responsibility to engage students, faculty and staff in thoughtful and substantive training, research, and learning to prepare them to be racial equity advocates committed to social justice. The task to understand and examine university-wide systemic structures of REM inequities and advance research on REM equity issues requires an understanding of the barriers that are embedded in these structures. Panelists will address what structural barriers exist in higher education institutions in order to set the stage for cultivating the framework to move past these barriers into impactful advancement of racial equity in institutional contexts.