Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Social Equity Why Professors Should Call on Law Students — With a Plan A new paper by Batten School professor Sophie Trawalter finds gender dynamics in classes are not fixed. Read More Research and Commentary, Social Equity Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated? Two Batten professors examine whether the least educated population groups experienced the worst mortality trends at the beginning of the 21st century by measuring changes in mortality across education quartiles. Read More Health Policy, Social Equity Racial Bias in Perceptions of Disease and Policy Narratives about Africa as dark, depraved, and diseased justified the exploitation of African land and people. Today, these narratives may still have a hold on people’s fears about disease. This group of scholars conducts tests and studies that, when taken together, make clear that reactions to pandemics are biased, and in a way consistent with historical narratives about race and Africa. Read More Racial Justice and Equity, Social Equity Policy for Women — and Everyone A new five-week course from Professor Lucy Bassett brings a feminist perspective to the Batten curriculum. Read More Social Equity The First-Gen Experience: Lunch in Celebration of National First-Gen College Student Week In recognition of National First-Gen College Celebration Week (Nov. 8-13), the Batten School and UVA's School of Data Science invite students, faculty and staff from both schools to celebrate first-generation college students during a catered lunch at 12:00 PM on Thursday, November 11 at the School of Data Science office above Ragged Mountain Running Store. Read More Social Equity Brown-Iannuzzi, Claibourn, Trawalter: ‘Confederate memorials are associated with hate’ — New UVA study shows ‘significant’ correlation between lynchings and monuments A UVA research team, including three Batten professors, uncovered a quantifiable relationship between Confederate memorials and the explicitly racist practice of lynching. Read More Research and Commentary, Racial Justice and Equity, Social Equity Teaching Today’s Leaders to Champion Racial Equity Through a new BattenX educational module, CEOs and nonprofit executives from across the globe are reckoning with systemic racism. Read More Racial Justice and Equity, Racial Justice and Equity, Leadership, Social Equity Batten's New Postdoctoral Researchers to Focus on Diversity, Social Identity The School's new postdoctoral fellows will investigate perceptions of minorities in academia and the workplace, among other subjects. Read More Racial Justice and Equity, Racial Justice and Equity, Social Equity Batten's Margaret Foster Riley and Colleagues Weigh in on Biden's COVID-19 Plan According to experts interviewed Friday in a webinar hosted by UVA's Miller Center, we are in a grim period, but if we continue to follow public health measures and increase vaccinations, the end of the pandemic is at least in sight. Read More Research and Commentary, Health Policy, Miller Center, Social Equity A New Aid Program in Sudan Sheds Light on a Popular Policy Debate In the latest edition of Batten Expert Chats, professor Jeanine Braithwaite discussed the Sudan Family Support Project, which will offer quasi-universal basic income to citizens of the African nation. Read More Research and Commentary, International and Global Affairs, Social Equity Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› Subscribe to Social Equity Categories Faculty (1)Accelerated MPP(42) Personal Statement(2) Application(22) Recommendations(6) SE Minor(3) New Student(7) Curriculum(21) Essays(4) MPP(29) Policy Minor(27) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Admissions(35) Alumni (1)Student Life(21) Career Outcomes(5) Batten Ambassadors(18) BA(41) Events(9)