Budget Equity Blueprint
The Budget Equity Blueprint helps institutions examine and integrate an equity-minded focus into budget processes to increase equitable student outcomes and provide considerations for strategically funding high-impact equitable student success initiatives. Equity efforts focus on access, academic support, economic mobility through funding, and other support measures to identify and remove barriers affecting historically marginalized groups of students.
Launch ToolkitValue Proposition
Increases awareness of the impact budget decisions have on equitable student outcomes.
Elevates the importance of prioritizing equity as part of the budget process.
Reinforces the importance of using and disseminating disaggregated data to evaluate budget requests.
Implementation Options
Choose the level of adoption that fits your institution's capacity and goals. Every toolkit offers flexible implementation paths from quick wins to comprehensive integration.
Introduce the Budget Equity Blueprint to stakeholders. Leverage Equity-Focused Guiding Questions to discuss integrating equity considerations.
Evaluate the current state of the institution's budgeting process using the Current State Equity Level Evaluation Rubric.
Implement the Prioritization Rubric to evaluate budget requests systematically during committee meetings and deliberations.
See This Toolkit in Action
Learn how institutions have used Budget Equity Blueprint to improve student outcomes.
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