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Community leaders and University of Virginia faculty and administrators have teamed to launch a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to build better relationships between UVA and the Charlottesville community and tangibly redress racial and socioeconomic inequality.

Dayna Bowen Matthew wants to get universities back to their original purpose, as she sees it, and the University of Virginia officially is on board.On Friday, UVa announced a new center called the Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity Through Community-Engaged…

In February 2019, the University-Community Working Group proposed establishing the University of Virginia Institute for the Redress of Inequity Through Community-Engaged Scholarship (the “Equity Institute”). This is the proposal that launched The Equity Center.

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…