New Institute Seeks To Ask ‘The Race Question’ In Higher Ed: To address the disparities that exist in higher education for underrepresented minorities, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) is slated to form in 2008 the new Institute on Equity Research Methods and Critical Policy Analysis.
The institute is a collaborative effort among the higher education research institutions, including the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California and the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance at the University of Houston Law Center. The Ford Foundation is providing a one-year planning grant to help establish the institute.
The institute will focus on addressing the academy’s critical issues: improving inclusion of minority scholars, researching methods to study questions of racial and ethnic equity in higher education, transforming the agendas of higher education policy centers, giving greater visibility to the needs and interests of minority communities and developing greater recognition of minority experts in higher education.
