1. Empowering Generation Z: Designing for Equity in Higher Education
Dr. Vijay Pendakur
TBR High Impact Practice Statewide Conference

7. Session Overview What is equity? Who is “tomorrow’s student”?
Design strategies

8. Equality vs Equity Biased System Equality Equity
the4thbox.com by Center for Story-based Strategy and the Interaction Institute for Social Change

9. Paul Kuttner http://culturalorganizing

11. Campus as a Microcosm

12. Were you born after 1995?

13. Born after 1995
Population: ~74 Million or 21.5% of total U.S.
Social media natives
Past the racial tipping point

15. Trend 1 – The Emerging Majority
38 %
Students
of Color
2000
53%
Students
of Color
2020
Source: Pew Research Center

16. Trend 2 – Class Matters + FAMILY INCOME RANGE (IN THOUSANDS OF $)
Source: EAB analysis of US Census Bureau,

17. Trend 3 – What is a “traditional age” student?
2 x
2009
2020
Older than 25 yrs
20%
42%
Source: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2012

18. Women Outpace Men in College Enrollment
Trend 4 – Gender Shift
Women Outpace Men in College Enrollment
Share of recent high school completers enrolled in college the following October
Source: The Pew Research Center

19. Trend 5 – First Generation On the Rise
27%

20. Bottom Line Students of Color Low Income Adult Learners Women
First Gen
Business as Usual?

22. Creating a Genuine Sense of Belonging

25. Key Belonging Messages
You are not alone
You are valued here
It gets better

31. Key Belonging Messages
You are not alone
You are valued here
It gets better

32. Universal Design for Learning

33. Design that is usable to the greatest extent possible by everyone without the need for adaptation or specialized design

34. Universal Design for Learning
Provide Multiple Means of Engagement Purposeful, motivated learners
Provide Multiple Means of Representation Resourceful, knowledgeable learners
Provide Multiple Means of Expression Strategic, goal-directed learners
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35. Guiding Questions ENGAGEMENT
Does the learning experience provide all learners with options to:
Become engaged and interested?
Sustain effort and motivation?
Regulate their own learning?
REPRESENTATION Does the presentation of information provide all learners with options to:
Perceive what needs to be learned?
Understand the symbols and expressions?
Reach higher levels of comprehension and understanding?
ACTION & EXPRESSION
Do the activities provide all learners with options to:
Physically respond or interact?
Express themselves fluently?
Act strategically?

39. Assets Over Deficits

41. Asset Lens: How we frame questions
Rather than…
Why are Black men failing?
Why aren’t these students college ready?
We ask:
“What mindsets and strategies are being employed by Black men on our campus that are highly successful?”
“Is our campus student ready?”

43. Practitioner Mindset: Cultural Humility

44. Framework: Competence vs. Humility
Cultural competence has been the dominant paradigm: If I know the other, I will be less likely to harm them
Unintended consequence: less emphasis on knowing oneself
Cultural humility emerges first in the field of medicine as a corrective to some of the limitations of cultural competence

45. Cultural Humility
Self-evaluation
Address power imbalances
Develop mutually beneficial partnerships
Cultural Competence
Focused on knowing the other
Goal: become proficient

47. Design Strategies for Equity:
Belonging
UDL
Asset-Lens
Cultural Humility