Description
Building a Culture of Shared Equity Leadership in Higher Education is a multi-year project that provides insights into the opportunities, challenges, structures, context, roles and other core features of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) in higher education. This project, partnered with the American Council on Education (ACE), builds on earlier work on shared leadership and supporting diverse students in higher education.
About
Since 2020, the Pullias Center and the American Council on Education have authored a series of five reports and a toolkit focused on different aspects of Shared Equity Leadership in higher education. The initial report, Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work, suggested that the work of improving equity outcomes of systemically-marginalized students is at its most effective when leadership teams across campus take collective responsibility in developing and moving the DEI agenda forward.
Since then, our library has grown to include five reports that focus on various aspects of SEL, including how to structure the work, capacity-building, how different roles within a campus environment can engage with SEL, accountability and emotional labor. In addition, the SEL Toolkit was designed to help leaders determine their strengths and weaknesses — and those of their team — in the values and practices necessary to effectively practice Shared Equity Leadership.
The work provides a research-informed foundation upon which higher education leaders can implement institutional policies and practices to best support the needs of all postsecondary education students.
Project News
What’s Next for Shared Equity Leadership?
New Shared Equity Leadership Report and Webinar Explore Creating Emotionally Supportive Spaces for Campus Teams
Project Team
Natsumi Ueda
Research Assistant
Publications
Emotional Labor in Shared Equity Leadership Environments: Creating Emotionally Supportive Spaces
Shared Leadership in Higher Education: A Framework and Models for Responding to a Changing World
Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work
Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: Four Approaches to Structuring the Work
Shared Equity Leadership Toolkit
Shared Responsibility Means Shared Accountability: Rethinking Accountability Within Shared Equity Leadership
Leading for Equity from Where You Are: How Leaders in Different Roles Engage in Shared Equity Leadership
Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership: Approaches and Considerations for the Work
Partner
The American Council on Education (ACE) is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice. As the major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities, ACE’s strength lies in its diverse membership of more than 1,700 colleges and universities, related associations, and other organizations in America and abroad. ACE is the only major higher education association to represent all types of U.S. accredited, degree-granting institutions: two-year and four-year, public and private.
Funders
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations were organized in 1952 and are supported by two trusts established by Mr. Arthur Vining Davis. The Foundations aim to bear witness to Mr. Davis’ successful corporate leadership and his ambitious philanthropic vision. Since their inception, the Foundations have given over 3,800 grants totaling more than $300 million to colleges and universities, hospitals, medical schools, and divinity schools.
The ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION is a not-for-profit, mission-driven grantmaking institution dedicated to improving the welfare of all through the advancement of scientific knowledge. Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in four broad areas: direct support of research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics; initiatives to increase the quality and diversity of scientific institutions and the science workforce; projects to develop or leverage technology to empower research; and efforts to enhance and deepen public engagement with science and scientists. sloan.org | @SloanFoundation
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