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Mapping at the margins: Environmental justice & racial equity in higher education
DelMastro-Jeffery, Nicole Marie
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127198
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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
- 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.
- Graduation Semester
- 2024-12
- Type of Resource
- Thesis
- Handle URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127198
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2024 Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery
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