Why race equity is a Higher Education emergency
This Black History Month we are hosting a talk which invites and challenges us to consider Higher Education through a racial lens.
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This Black History Month we are hosting a talk which invites and challenges us to consider Higher Education through a racial lens. Hosted by Natalia-Nana Lester-Bush, this lecture will offer a considered critique of how race and racism interact with some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities of the Higher Education experience. We will explore why, in a time of mass economic and educational crisis, race is the issue University staff, students and members of the wider Oxford community should be engaging with, and how white colleagues can - and should - be empowered and motivated to lead as allies to contribute to understanding and addressing the complex challenges the sector faces.