New Name, New Vision, Same Values: Introducing the Institute on Economic and Racial Equity | The Heller School at Brandeis University
Heller's Institute on Assets and Social Policy is renamed to reflect this racial justice inflection point February 08, 2021 Maria Madison joined the Heller School as associate dean for equity, inclusion and diversity in 2017, and became director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy in fall 2020. Among her first tasks as director was to conceive a new vision and to co-create a new name for the institute. Earlier this month, the team announced a new title: the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity (IERE). Madison explains the need for a new name and describes IERE’s new initiativ...
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