Beyond Talk on Digital Equity: How EdTech Companies and Colleges Can Partner on Innovative Strategies to Serve Historically Excluded Communities

As the pandemic laid bare, disparities in technological capability will exacerbate inequality for low-income and minority students and minority-serving institutions. Decades of talk about the digital divide hasn’t brought much change. How can edtech use this moment to shape new alliances with Black and Brown communities—and the institutions that serve them—to advance digital equity and promote economic security? How do we reimagine traditional approaches to higher education partnerships that have a chance of making a difference? What if we don’t?

 In this special journalist-moderated session, leaders of minority-serving colleges, an official from the United Negro College Fund, and the president of EDUCAUSE highlight the urgency for these partnerships throughout higher education, exploring the possibilities—and the potential pitfalls—of this new market dynamic.