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Educational Access & Equity

From the Reconstruction era’s Freemen’s schools to Brown v. Board of Education, and from Little Rock to Ole Miss, education has long been a frontline of the struggle for racial justice and full enfranchisement. ARPC believe that colleges and universities can be vital partners in fostering racial justice and increasing social equity, but that requires them to be accessible, equitable, and just, themselves. Recent trends and events including the Supreme Court’s overhaul of Affirmative Action, attacks on critical race theory, rollback of DEI initiatives, curtailment of curricular content, and suppression of academic freedom around issues such as Palestine have constituted major impediments to this vision. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of our scholars, ARPC intervenes in unfolding current events and narratives connected to educational equity with rapid response analysis and commentary.


Affirmative Action Resource Guides

ARPC published these public-facing resource guides on Instagram to explain common myths about affirmative action and why affirmative action matters.
Why Affirmative Action Matters  8 Myths about Affirmative Action

Student Speech and Education Policy

In light of the Congressional resolutions SR 418 and HR 798 regarding terrorism, antisemitism, and speech on college campuses, ARPC brought together experts in race and educational equity, media communications and law in the panel, “Student Speech, Education Policy, and College Campuses Today,” to explore the historical and sociopolitical context for these resolutions and assess their impact for students and youth organizers, particularly those from racialized communities.