Coloring the Markups: Examining Race in Higher Education Policy
Urban Higher Education Lunchtime Lecture
February 25, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

About the Speaker
Katherine Wheatle, PhD is a strategy officer for federal policy and equity in the Washington, DC offices of Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all.
Before joining Lumina, she served as a research analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy and as a research associate at the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, and consulted for the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Her past work has included examining how the Higher Education Act interacts with minority-serving institutions and how finance and financial aid policies can affect these institutions.
Urban Higher Education Lunchtime Lecture Series
This event is part of a series hosted by the college's MEd Urban Higher Education program. Other upcoming lectures include:
- Wednesday, March 10: "Interrogating Social Justice Paradigms in School Finance Ontology at the Intersection of Racism and Equity" with Davíd G. Martínez, PhD
- Wednesday, April 7: "Reading Between the Lines: Response, Racism, and Activism on College Campuses" with Katherine Cho, PhD
Date posted
Feb 10, 2021
Date updated
Feb 12, 2021