PhD Futures Now!

Episode 4 | Racial and Social Equity in Higher Education

June 11, 2021 PhD Futures Now Season 1 Episode 4
Episode 4 | Racial and Social Equity in Higher Education
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PhD Futures Now!
Episode 4 | Racial and Social Equity in Higher Education
Jun 11, 2021 Season 1 Episode 4
PhD Futures Now

In episode 4 of PhD Futures Now! Podcast, Dr. Antoinette Burton talks to Lisa Betty (PhD student, Fordham University) and Timothy Emmanuel Brown (incoming Assistant Professor, University of Washington) about issues of racial and social equity (or lack thereof) in higher education. This is the first of our episodes focusing on student experiences and lived reality of graduate students in US universities. Full audio transcript for the episode available at our website www.phdfuturesnow.org

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In episode 4 of PhD Futures Now! Podcast, Dr. Antoinette Burton talks to Lisa Betty (PhD student, Fordham University) and Timothy Emmanuel Brown (incoming Assistant Professor, University of Washington) about issues of racial and social equity (or lack thereof) in higher education. This is the first of our episodes focusing on student experiences and lived reality of graduate students in US universities. Full audio transcript for the episode available at our website www.phdfuturesnow.org

Intro
Equity, Inclusion, Anti-racism. Tell us what you hear when you hear these words?
Q2. What are the primary impediments that hinder movement toward actually dismantling structural inequality?
Q3. Personal experience with racial and social inequity in higher education
Q4. What advice would you give a person of color or a woman entering a PhD or graduate program in 2021?
Q5. What can people working in career diversity do to decolonize and dismantle the inequitable structures upon which the enterprise is built?
Qs. One suggestion you have for those interested in reforming the Humanities PhD and Higher Education broadly
Conclusion