Equity Scorecard for Higher Education

Despite efforts to increase accountability in higher education, racial/ethnic disparities in student outcomes are a reality at most colleges and universities in the United States. Although most states [Page 813]have accountability systems, equity has not been incorporated as an indicator of institutional accountability. Recognizing that data and campus-level practitioners are at the heart of organizational learning and change, researchers at the University of Southern California's Center for Urban Education (CUE) created the Equity Scorecard, a multifaceted approach to institutional accountability that involves practitioners in data practices designed to create new knowledge and bring about change within themselves and their institutions. The Equity Scorecard is a tool and an established process to develop evidence-based awareness of race-based inequalities among practitioners and to instill a sense of ...