Four Strategies to Support Economic Mobility at Your Institution

COVID-19 has shined a spotlight on the racial and social disparities across the country, specifically the outsized impact of the pandemic on women and people of color. Many higher education institutions are reevaluating their role in equitable economic development, prompted by a renewed and widespread interest in eliminating racial disparities in education, healthcare, food access, and economic opportunity at the institutional and community level.

As leaders of economic growth and social reform within their locality, institutions must turn innate economic activity into strategic initiatives and audit intentional economic development programs to ensure inclusivity, accessibility, and equity. To put it another way, economic recovery must become economic justice.