{"id":2782,"date":"2021-06-01T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ele.local\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=2782"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:21:35","slug":"getting-started-with-equity-a-guide-for-academic-department-leaders","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/resources\/getting-started-with-equity-a-guide-for-academic-department-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Getting Start<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Getting-Started-With-Equity-1-1.pdf\" class=\"btn\" target=\"_blank\"\">Download Getting Started With Equity<\/a>ed With Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Getting Started With Equity<\/em> is a guide designed specifically for academic department leaders in higher education. The guide can help department chairs, course directors, and lead instructors develop and curate an educational environment that is simultaneously justice-centered and equity-advancing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the guide offers specific strategies faculty can adopt in the classroom and in curricular development, a systems approach to centering justice \u2014 in the interest of equity-advancing work \u2014 is the responsibility of the entire campus community, not just individual instructors making choices around their own teaching. Equity-advancing work demands a change in systems and culture, which is a collaborative effort, not an individual one. It calls for the demystification and deconstruction of systemic inequities. This work shapes policies, course offerings, assessments of learning, and curricular content. And finally, it supersedes checklists full of superficial changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting Started With Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is not a comprehensive handbook for educators committed to equity-advancing work; there are many worthwhile resources and tools that illuminate and recommend best practices for equity in higher education. Rather, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting Started With Equity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a resource to start having conversations in academic departments around how we can work toward equity and justice in our curricula and teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Companion resources<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/resources\/improving-departmental-equity-using-the-impact-framework\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3716 size-thumbnail alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/improving-departmental-equity-using-the-impact-framework_Page_01-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/resources\/a-discipline-brief-for-equity-in-mathematics-natalie-hobson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5003 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobson-150x150.png\" alt=\"A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Natalie Hobson Cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/resources\/a-discipline-brief-for-equity-in-mathematics-joel-amidon\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5001 size-thumbnail alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amidon-150x150.png\" alt=\"A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Joel Amidon Cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/resources\/a-discipline-brief-for-equity-in-biology\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5006 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Swanson-150x150.png\" alt=\"A Discipline Brief for Equity in Biology Cover\" 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decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5005 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Savini-150x150.png\" alt=\"A Discipline Brief for Equity in English Composition Cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/resources\/a-discipline-brief-for-equity-in-english-composition-rachel-e-johnson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5004 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Johnson-150x150.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with Equity in English Composition Cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/resources\/a-discipline-brief-for-equity-in-chemistry-jeffrey-paz-buenaflor-ph-d\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6323 size-thumbnail\" 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