Community-Engaged Scholarship

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.

Picturing Climate Justice provides a window into local actions calling for a just response to climate change. In 2021, local groups, including the Community Climate Collaborative (C3), Cultivate Charlottesville, Wildrock, and the UVA School of Architecture Project Pipeline Youth…

The Albemarle County Equity Profile analyzes various conditions across demographic groups and geographic areas that contribute to well-being. This online version provides some key results from the full Equity Profile.

The Orange Dot Report 5.0 represents the continuation of our progress toward a more fully and equitable thriving region. Incorporating an updated description of the condition of families in our larger region, Orange Dot 5.0 marks the beginning of an annual update completed in…

Rent exploitation, when tenants are overcharged in rent relative to the value of the property in which they reside, is one way landlords contribute to high rent burdens in low-income neighborhoods. Building on new ways of measuring rent exploitations, the Equity Center…

The Virginia Evictors Catalog provides information about property owners, or their representatives, who have filed tenant evictions across the Commonwealth. It compiles and processes publicly available data from Virginia State District Courts to reflect the names of the…

The Equity Center at the University of Virginia, in partnership with the Charlottesville Department of Human Services (DHS) and Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, released the latest version of the Stepping Stones Report, which provides updated, comprehensive data on…