The Role of Institutions in Advancing Racial Equity in Postsecondary Attainment

This report focuses on how postsecondary institutions engaged with Talent, Innovation, and Equity (TIE). Specifically, the report describes how policymakers from Tennessee and Colorado’s state higher education agencies awarded subgrants to institutions and takes a closer look at how these institutions responded to the TIE initiative. The report builds upon RFA’s first report, Advancing Racial Equity in Higher Education Attainment, which offers a framework to guide the analysis of race-conscious state-level postsecondary policy and explores the factors that affect the capacity of state higher education agencies to advance racial equity. A third report describes how the TIE initiative’s role in efforts to convene a statewide coalition.