Events

We kicked off the year with the panel discussion on Educational Reparations,
celebrating the one-year anniversary of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, a book by bestselling author Bettina Love, William F. Russell Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Teaching.

Among other recognitions, this New York Times bestseller earned Dr. Love the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism, made her a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and long-listed for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize.

This spring, we launched Munch and Learn, a series of lunch conversations with faculty and visiting scholars facilitated by Dr. Mark Anthony Gooden. The goal of this series is to create a space for informal intellectual dialogue, while building community, and finding synergies and opportunities to collaborate on research topics of interest to our Faculty Affiliates, Research Affiliates, and Doctoral students. Attendees in the inaugural gathering on March 12, 2025, had the chance to learn from Dr. Patricia Faison Hewlin, Professor of Social-Organizational Psychology at Teachers College, who shared insights about her research and better recognize how it applies to supporting faculty of color in the current, tense-filled context. On April 30, 2025, we hosted our Visiting Scholar, Dr. Charles H. F. Davis III, who is a faculty member in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and Director of the Campus Abolition Research Lab at the University of Michigan. Dr. Davis shared his experiences as a third-generation educator, organizer, and artist whose work centers on the racialized consequences of higher education on society, including the role of colleges and universities in limiting the life-making possibilities of Black and other racially minoritized communities.