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Collaborative To Advance Equity Through Research Agreement

Membership agreement from the Equity Through Research website:

The Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research is a voluntary affiliation of American colleges, universities, professional schools, seminaries, research programs, publishers, and public interest institutions committed to taking meaningful action to support and improve research about women and girls of color.

This Collaborative serves as a national model of substantive action, best practices, and sustained partnerships to advance equity through research about women and girls of color. Women of color will constitute more than half of all women in the United States by 2050, but are infrequently the central subjects of scholarly inquiry. This research deficit has meaningful consequences for the ways our institutions contribute to public discourse and policymaking. This Collaborative seeks to address that deficit.

The specific form of commitments from the undersigned institutions vary according to the unique mission, structure, and resources of each institution.

Together we recognize and affirm a shared commitment to generating new knowledge through rigorous scholarship, cultivation of a diverse academic pipeline, and sustained effort to build and implement a research agenda. Recognizing the imperative to act, members commit to the following:

1. Publicly acknowledging, via membership in this Collaborative, the critical need for increased research investigating women and girls of color and the value this research holds in advancing equity for women and girls of color.

2. New or continued support for specific actions on our campus or in our institution that contributes to meaningful research endeavors engaging and addressing women and girls of color. The specific form of our commitments will vary according to the unique mission, structure, and resources of each institution.

3. Conducting a review of the existing research efforts at our institutions and sharing the results of that self-study with members of the Collaborative in order to establish a landscape of existing scholarship, share best practices, and identify areas needing enhanced attention.

The Collaborative is being hosted by the Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest University in conjunction with the White House Council on Women and Girls. Photo credit: Blair Kelley, NCSU.