Promoting Equity in Urban and Higher Education
With a planning grant from the Ford Foundation, this cross-institutional project aspires to uncover the policy structures that encourage or inhibit students’ successful pursuits of higher education. It focuses on three major cities: Detroit, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.
Promoting Equity in Urban and Higher Education website
This website includes an indicators database for tracking and monitoring progress on educational opportunity in all fifty states, as well as studies of national, state, and institutional policies and interventions influencing racial inequality, college access, and retention in support of promoting equity in urban and higher education.
Conversations on Promoting Pathways and Access to Higher Education: 2009-2010 Speaker Series (flyer)
Principal Investigators:
Edward St. John, Professor of Education, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan
William T. Trent, Professor of Policy Studies, University of Illinois
John B. Williams, Vice President, Public Welfare Foundation, Washington, D.C.