Every Learner Everywhere

Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Strategy Guide

Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is one of a series of teaching strategy guides published by Every Learner Everywhere® for the purpose of highlighting how the three facets of our mission, equity in higher education, digital learning, and evidence-based teaching practices, can be applied in higher educational courses.

Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education details our network’s eight equity principles and their application to equitable teaching with the goal of redesigning postsecondary digital learning opportunities to more intentionally center the needs, outcomes, and experiences of Black, Latino, and Indigenous students, as well as students experiencing poverty.

The eight equity principles include:

  1. Put equity first
  2. Adopt an asset-based lens
  3. Reflect on biases
  4. Analyze systems
  5. Focus on outcomes
  6. Disaggregate data to the finest point possible
  7. Broaden participation
  8. Respect student experiences
Download Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Recommended citation:

Rodgers, A. and O’Sullivan, P. (2022) Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Every Learner Everywhere®. https://www.everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/equity-principles-for-teaching-and-learning-in-higher-education/

 

Other Related Resources

COVER Evidence-Based Innovations for Student Success in Introductory Mathematics with title, photo of faculty standing in front of students learning in class.

September 2026

Evidence-Based Innovations for Student Success in Introductory Mathematics is designed to help teaching-focused faculty, course coordinators, and department and institutional leaders answer a practical question: which reforms should we try? This resource covers eight evidence-based innovations: active pedagogy, course coordination, math pathways, corequisite supports, tech-enabled instruction, alternative grading, using data in decision-making, and identity and belonging.

Pillar Resource

August 2026

This guidebook gives your institution a clear, practical roadmap for transforming introductory mathematics, from first conversations to lasting, systemic change. This isn’t a theoretical framework. It’s a field-tested, action-oriented resource grounded in real research and real institutional experience, designed to help your team move from “we know something needs to change” to “here’s our plan, and here’s who’s doing what.”

Pillar Resource
Cover page of the 2025 annual impact report: Where AI Meets Every Learner. With a photo of a female professor holding a laptop smiling with two students seated in front.

May 2026

In 2025, Every Learner Everywhere helped hundreds of higher education institutions navigate a rapidly changing landscape, expanding access to evidence-based digital learning, deepening student success for every learner, and meeting the moment as AI reshapes what’s possible in the classroom.