Equity by Design
Equity by Design (EBD) is a collaborative, university-wide approach to advancing greater equity and reducing achievement gaps in the academic success of Minnesota State students. It reflects MSU Moorhead’s ongoing commitment to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion.
Equity and enrollment are university priorities. Eliminating the equity gaps in our outcomes is imperative, as we will need to graduate more students from communities that have been historically disadvantaged by higher education. Equity in outcomes is also an enrollment strategy, as more students come from diverse backgrounds and represent a sizable, and growing, portion of our total student base. EBD will allow the campus community to focus efforts and identify meaningful strategies.
Equity By Design as a framework:
- utilizes best teaching practices,
- supports and expands student-centered policies and programs,
- develops equity-minded, evidenced-based, and data-informed practices to monitor and assess student learning, and
- creates and implements interventions that will improve student learning.
Our goal is to give all students, regardless of demographic, the support needed to be successful as measured by retention rates, graduation rates, and success in individual courses. The work will be done at the college, department, and program levels, including undergraduate and graduate programs.
This important work aligns with:
- Minnesota State’s Equity 2030 strategic vision of closing educational equity gaps across race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and first-generation status by 2030.
- Minnesota State’s Equity by Design framework for conceptualizing equity and utilizing tools for advancing equitable practices across Minnesota State campuses.
- MSUM’s mission of promising all students the opportunity to discover their passions, the rigor to develop intellectually, and the versatility to shape a changing world.
- MSUM’s strategic anchor of focusing relentlessly on student achievement and students’ return on their investment.
- MSUM’s strategic priority of building organizational capacity to achieve equitable educational outcomes for all students, recognizing that achieving equity will require changing our systems, policies, practices, assumptions, and campus climate.
- MSUM’s core values of going the extra mile for our students and recognizing that the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone in our campus community.
- MSUM’s Quality Initiative Project of implementing this system-level framework to the campus for institutional accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission.