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application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms The student, Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery, accepted the attached license on 2024-11-18 at 09:58. The student, Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2024-11-18 at 09:59. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-11-25 at 11:24. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21333 on 2025-03-28 at 14:25:41 Mapping at the margins: Environmental justice & racial equity in higher education DelMastro-Jeffery, Nicole Marie 2024-11-25 Lindgren, Samantha Lindgren, Samantha Pak , Yoon Baber , Lorenzo Moton III , Theopolies Environmental Justice Racial Equity Ecology Student Wellbeing Public Health eng 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. 2024-12 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127198 Copyright 2024 Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ed.D. Dissertation