Professor Bensimon invented the Equity Scorecard to help higher education leaders, practitioners, and faculty use data and the methods of participatory critical action research to “see” how racialization is embedded in their thinking, their language, their practices, and their outcomes. The Equity Scorecard tools were designed to engage teams of leaders, faculty, and staff ask the question: In what ways do our practices maintain racial inequity? In what ways can we center racial equity in our practices? The tools that comprise the equity scorecard support critical race sensemaking of student outcomes, hiring practices, policies, resource distribution, and teaching artifacts.
Estela Bensimon, Ph.D.
University Professor Emerita
Founding Director, Center for Urban Education
University of Southern California