Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 1pm online event Education Policy Seminar Join the discussion of race-conscious higher education policies with Wil Del Pilar and Kayla Elliott of The Education Trust. The panelists will share recent work in this area of education and draw from findings in Hard Truths, published earlier this year. This report, part of the State of Higher Education Equity series, addresses questions like: How do you respond to opponents who prefer not to focus on race?, Why can’t we focus on income?, and How can we advance race-conscious policies in higher education and states? Moderated by Dr. Erik Ness and coordinated by the IHE Working Group on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion with additional support from the Higher Education Student Society. Review recording Wil Del Pilar, Ph.D., serves as Ed Trust’s vice president of higher education policy and practice. He leads the mission to highlight inequities and outline solutions in order to improve access, success, affordability, and completion in higher education for low-income students and students of color. Kayla Elliott, Ph.D., is a senior policy analyst for higher education at EdTrust, where her focus is state and federal policy issues of access and accountability for students of color and low-income students. This program is offered as part of the Institute of Higher Education’s Critical Programs on Race series and is open to all graduates, students, and friends of the Institute.
