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Title: Transforming Racial Climate Health on Campus: The Need for Structural Competency in a Legal Context of 'Race-Neutrality'
Language: English
Authors: Uma Mazyck Jayakumar (ORCID 0000-0003-1193-7483)
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.
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