Respectful Research

Piedmont Virginia Community College teamed up with University of Virginia Equity Center to create the Orange Dot 6.0 Report. It highlights economic indicators that directly impact families across the Charlottesville region. “There are so many families struggling in our…

The Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement is an elective classification administered by the Carnegie Foundation that recognizes institutions that have made extraordinary commitments to their public purpose. Institutions of higher education like ours can apply every…

Founding Faculty Director, Barbara Brown Wilson discusses The Equity Center's climate justice initiatives on With Good Reason.

The Equity Center Annual Report includes program updates and project deliverables during the 2022 - 2023 academic year.

When they began their work as Community Fellows-in-Residence at the University of Virginia last year, Myra Anderson, Libby Edwards-Allbaugh, Tanesha Hudson and Destinee Wright each had a set of goals for the year, all aimed at addressing racial and economic inequality in some…