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Bensimon Receives Service Award
November 21, 2011 12:41 PM
Estela Mara Bensimon, USC Rossier School of Education professor and co-director of the Center for Urban Education (CUE), was named the 2011 recipient of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on Ethnic Participation's Founders Service Award.
Bensimon received the award on Nov. 17 in recognition of her dedication to promoting access, opportunity and equity in higher education for minority students.
She was the principal investigator for the ASHE Institutes on Equity and Critical Policy Analysis, a series of five institutes held over two years that brought together nearly 100 assistant professors, emerging and established scholars, policy analysts and others in higher education.
The goal of the institutes was to develop a community of equity-minded scholars and policy analysts who would identify and change policies and practices that result in racial-ethnic inequities in postsecondary outcomes.
Through relationships developed at the institutes, CUE and the National College Access Network formed a new partnership to pilot the Equity Scorecard™ at two Boston high schools.
Similarly, officials from the Illinois Community College Board adopted elements of participatory action research and incorporated equity into their data practices for a state initiative to improve graduation rates and employment prospects for students in career pathway programs. In addition, two participants were inspired to launch the Journal of African-American Males in Education after many fruitful conversations held during the institutes.
Last month, CUE was retained by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education for a two-year, $1 million project to uncover the pitfalls that may drive students to drop out.
The Ford Foundation supported the ASHE Institutes, which were organized and convened by CUE in 2009 and 2010.
The idea for the institutes emerged from discussions Bensimon had as a member of ASHE's Equity Task Force in 2004-05. The structure, purpose and goals of the institutes were developed during her ASHE presidency in 2005-06.
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