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HROUGH ACTIVISM AND OTHER EFFORTS,
generations of collegians have challenged higher
education leaders to address long-standing racial
issues on campuses. The underrepresentation
of students, faculty, and administrators of color; culturally
unresponsive curricula and teaching methods; racialized
encounters ranging from occasional stereotyping and
microaggressions to overt acts of racial violence; the presence of white supremacist statues and buildings named for
eugenicists; and unacknowledged institutional participation in the American slave trade industry are just some of
the racial problems students have protested for decades.
Others have fought for ethnic studies departments and
cultural centers. Most colleges and universities have made
measurable progress on their pursuits of equity, diversity,
and inclusion goals. Notwithstanding, students of color
and their White allies in 2021 are still protesting many of
the same challenges and unfulfilled promises for racial justice that were on the agendas of activists in prior eras. In
many instances, lists of demands issued during this current
movement of Black Lives Matter are nearly identical to
those presented in the 1960s.
My role as the founder and executive director of the University
of Southern California Race and Equity Center has afforded me
opportunities to work with hundreds of colleges and universities
in every geographic region of the United States. Our center has
become the place that most leaders call for advice and analysis in the
aftermath of racial crises on their campuses. We also provide them
useful data through the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus
Climates, our quantitative survey that has been administered to
more than one million undergraduates. Most of my recent higher
education work entails advising presidents, provosts, vice presidents,
and deans on racial equity topics ranging from crisis avoidance and
disaster recovery to strategy development and implementation.
At this point, I engage with dozens of senior leaders on a weekly
basis. Fortunately, I have not yet met a president or chancellor who
deemed racial equity unimportant-all tell me they are committed
to it. But many seek my advice on one specific issue: negotiating
the advancement of racial equity agendas with uncommitted and
resistant governing boards. I present in this article four common
questions that board members reportedly raise to presidents.

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