Prof. Phillipe Copeland from BU School of Social Work recently gave a digital presentation on antiracist education at the international conference, “Literacies and Educational Changes: Rediscussing Digital Learning, Neoliberalism, and Post-Pandemic Policies” in São Paulo, Brazil. Sharing his expertise internationally is an important step in addressing racism on a global scale. “Racism is an international, […]
Little progress has been made to confront racism in research, despite recent calls perpetuated by the racial reckoning of 2020. In an article for The University of Chicago Press, authors including BU School of Social Work Prof. Linda Sprague Martinez say that solving this problem starts with building better anti-racist and anti-oppressive (ARAO) frameworks. These […]
In an effort to bridge a structural racism gap in social work and public health education, BUSSW’s Equity & Inclusion Committee developed a free online course, “Understanding Structural & Institutional Racism.” BU Today recently interviewed Prof. Dawn Belkin Martinez, dean of equity and inclusion, and PhD candidates Noor Toraif (SSW’23), and Greer Hamilton (SSW’24) on […]
Ashley Davis, a clinical associate professor at BU School of Social Work, is one of thirteen inaugural fellows of the Designing Antiracism Curricula Fellowship Program at Boston University. Sponsored through a partnership between BU Diversity & Inclusion, the Center for Antiracist Research and the Center for Teaching and Learning, the program tasks each fellow with […]