Colleges and Universities

Introduction This article describes a study that assessed the effectiveness of an online training on cultural competency taken by white students at a predominantly white university. There are three dimensions to cultural competence: This study assessed improvement in participants’ cultural competence along with racial colorblindness, white privilege, and skill employment before and after cultural competence…

Introduction Many white students enter postsecondary education fortified by “walls of whiteness,” or manifestations of racial privilege that shield white students from challenges to white supremacist assumptions about racial disparities and inequality. Those assumptions are reinforced in historically white colleges and universities that are predominately staffed by white male faculty and primarily attended by middle-…