

Central Connecticut State University’s interdisciplinary Certificate in Racial Justice is designed to educate currently enrolled students and continuing education students about such concepts as anti-racism, advocacy, white privilege, and institutionalized racism in the United States. The anti-racist education will expand an understanding of systemic racism in the United States, providing citizens and students with tools to advocate for and begin to repair social, cultural, economic, and legal inequalities that affect our neighborhoods and our nation.
The Certificate in Racial Justice Program collaborates with such campus groups as MOSAIC, The African American Studies Program, and the Africana Center. Our latest collaboration welcomed Professor Eddie Glaude to campus in February 2022 to speak about his book, Begin Again.
Understand how cultural representation directly affects political representation;
Interrogate their own assumptions about race and racial difference;
Advocate for racial justice in the United States through community engagement.