Big Idea: Global Racial Equity Education
COURSEWORK ACROSS PARTNER UNIVERSITIES
Identifying, evaluating, and designing innovation related to racial equity will be a hallmark of any strategy to create a more just society for all communities, especially those who identify as BIPOC. Education remains a key strategy for changing a culture of racial inequity to one of racial equity. A racially equitable community is one that is inclusive of human, environmental, educational, health, and environmental justice.
It is critical that communities of thought are created from a strong foundation and that diverse populations collaborate. In order to model that interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration, the anchoring university partners in DGEP will co-launch and operate a new Racial Equity and Innovation Certificate. This will allow students to gain a diverse perspective to the challenge of incorporating innovation into Racial Equity work
SCALING:
THIS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO SERVE AS A MODEL FOR OTHER INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS AROUND EQUITY TRAINING AND EDUCATION. IN ORDER TO CENTER EXPERIENCE ACROSS DIFFERENT CERTIFICATION AND CURRICULUM PROGRAMS, THE DURHAM GLOBAL EQUITY PROJECT WILL WORK WITH ALL INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS ON WAYS TO ENGAGE IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGS AND CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES RELATED TO DGEP.
Partners from Insitutions
Henry McKoy Ph.D.
Director of Entrepreneurship, NCCU
Williams Darity, Ph.D.
Professor of African and African American Studies, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
Jim Johnson, Ph.D.
William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center UNC-Chapel Hill
Jessica Thomas
Director of Business Sustainability Collaborative and Assistant Professor of Practice, Poole College of Management NC State