Mapping at the margins: Environmental justice & racial equity in higher education
DelMastro-Jeffery, Nicole Marie
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Title
Mapping at the margins: Environmental justice & racial equity in higher education
Author(s)
DelMastro-Jeffery, Nicole Marie
Issue Date
2024-11-25
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Lindgren, Samantha
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Lindgren, Samantha
Committee Member(s)
Pak , Yoon
Baber , Lorenzo
Moton III , Theopolies
Department of Study
Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp
Discipline
Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ed.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Environmental Justice
Racial Equity
Ecology
Student Wellbeing
Public Health
Language
eng
Abstract
The environmental justice movement has existed since the 1980s as a response to discriminatory practices including toxic dumping and land use decisions predominantly impacting communities of color. Empirical evidence shows that proximity to environmental toxins is likely to impair mental and physical health. Scholarship indicates that college students from under-resourced communities are less likely to fare well in college but have yet to include environmental injustice in the analysis of student wellbeing. Yet the fight for environmental and racial justice are inextricably linked. This research focused on the relationship between access to quality basic needs and proximity to racially marginalized college students from the five highest-sending counties to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This study centered basic needs as important components of self-actualization, public health, and thus student wellbeing. Intersectional issues related to increasing climate, racial, and social injustices were explored within the context of capitalism’s role in environmental health amid the increasing graduation rates of racially minoritized collegians with business degrees.
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