Transforming Racial Climate Health on Campus: The Need for Structural Competency in a Legal Context of 'Race-Neutrality'
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| Title: | Transforming Racial Climate Health on Campus: The Need for Structural Competency in a Legal Context of 'Race-Neutrality' |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Uma Mazyck Jayakumar (ORCID |
| Source: | Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 2026 48(1):365-391. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 27 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | College Environment, College Students, Racism, Public Colleges, Minority Group Students, White Students |
| Geographic Terms: | North Carolina |
| DOI: | 10.3102/01623737241304405 |
| ISSN: | 0162-3737 1935-1062 |
| Abstract: | Campus climate assessment has been an important strategy for improving students' racialized experiences and racial equity in higher education. But when these assessments lack critical interventions in structural racism, they are easily co-opted to keep white students and faculty centered while exacerbating racial harm. This article responds to the timely question about the role/efficacy of campus climate assessments given the 2023 Supreme Court decision banning race-conscious admissions and subsequent backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and efforts. Drawing on University of North Carolina (UNC) data that informed this litigation, the author (an expert witness) demonstrates how a holistic view of campus climate health reflective of structural competency can be achieved with existing climate data sources, when accounting for missing areas of inquiry identified by student intervenors representing UNC and higher education race scholars. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1496633 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Campus climate assessment has been an important strategy for improving students' racialized experiences and racial equity in higher education. But when these assessments lack critical interventions in structural racism, they are easily co-opted to keep white students and faculty centered while exacerbating racial harm. This article responds to the timely question about the role/efficacy of campus climate assessments given the 2023 Supreme Court decision banning race-conscious admissions and subsequent backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and efforts. Drawing on University of North Carolina (UNC) data that informed this litigation, the author (an expert witness) demonstrates how a holistic view of campus climate health reflective of structural competency can be achieved with existing climate data sources, when accounting for missing areas of inquiry identified by student intervenors representing UNC and higher education race scholars. |
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| ISSN: | 0162-3737 1935-1062 |
| DOI: | 10.3102/01623737241304405 |
