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About the Racially Responsive Leadership Summit

Centennial College in collaboration with the University of Toronto, Scarborough is inviting higher education leaders from across Canada to courageously confront and correct systemic racism within their institutions to Canada’s first Racially Responsive Leadership (RRL) Summit. Inspired by the work of Dr. Shaun Harper, this virtual event will engage with leaders in Canadian higher education on how to develop a Racially Responsive Leadership Framework complete with actionable recommendations for their own respective institutions. Participants of the RRL Summit will engage with the following learning objectives:

  • Determine how higher educational leaders can build capacity and skills rooted in authentic leadership to confront intersectional racial injustice across diverse contexts.
  • Identify, develop and strengthen organizational equity outcomes within postsecondary institutions that further build trustworthy feedback systems , increasing psychological safety within teams, that address systemic racism among diverse racialized groups.
  • Increase understanding on how best to acknowledge and actively redress all forms of racism through the re-allocation of funds, dedicated human resources functions and a range of institutional response strategies.


Keynote Address - Dr. Shaun Harper

Dr. Shaun R. Harper is a Provost Professor in the Rossier School of Education and Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He also is the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, USC Race and Equity Center founder and executive director, president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Dr. Harper’s research focuses primarily on racial and gender equity and inclusion in educational, corporate, social, and organizational contexts. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles (please see attached). His research has been cited in more than 13,000 published studies across numerous academic disciplines. Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing his 13th book, Race Matters in College. He has been interviewed on CNN, ESPN, and NPR, and featured or quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, Education Week, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and several thousand other news outlets. He has testified to the U.S. House of Representatives, and presented his research at various White House and U.S. Department of Education convenings. He was appointed to President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper advisory council in 2015, and recognized in Education Week as one of the 10 most influential professors in the field of education in 2017

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* 7. Centennial College is committed to providing accessible and inclusive environments. The Racially Responsive Leadership Summit will be closed-captioned. If you have specific accommodation needs, please share them here.

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