Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher,
Professor, Higher Education and Community College leadership
Director, Office for Community ColleGe Research and Leadership
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Join us for a Zoom Webinar – Thursday, November 12, 2020, 1:00PM ET
Registration Required by Wednesday, November 11 http://bit.ly/RainesCoFall2020
The Perennial Pandemic: Racism, Black Antipathy, and the Ivory Tower
Education has long espoused egalitarian values, a commitment to diversity, and ensuring equity. However, the rhetoric and realities on campuses are incongruent, reflecting contradictory collegiate contexts that mirror the racial divide in society at large. The calamity and chaos of multiple current U.S. crises—health, economic, climate, leadership, and racial—are each marked by racialization and exacerbated by race. In this Raines Colloquium, Dr. Zamani-Gallaher will critically examine the role of race and racism in higher education, discussing the negative racial affect that undergirds anti-blackness on two- and four-year campuses. She will address the conflation of DEI efforts, the misnomer of multicultural self-efficacy as a panacea for racism, and the disproportionate inequality speci?c to the embodiment of Blackness. In addition, Dr. Zamani-Gallaher will discuss the paradoxes of the post-racial society arguments amid heightened perceived threat and policing of Black bodies that have been detrimental to the educational well-being of Black collegians and Black lives.
Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is Professor of Higher Education and Community College Leadership. She is also Director of the Office for Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL). She previously served as Associate Head of the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership and Associate Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She serves as the Executive Director of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC).
Dr. Zamani-Gallaher holds a PhD in Higher Education Administration with a specialization in Community College Leadership and Educational Evaluation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching, research, and consulting activities largely include psychosocial adjustment and transition of marginalized collegians, transfer, access policies, student d