Race Equity Cycle Pulse Check

Since the Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture publication was released in 2018, Equity in the Center stakeholders have asked for a tool to assess where organizations are on the Race Equity Cycle. The Race Equity Cycle Pulse Check is designed to do so and provide recommendations on next steps and tools to move work toward the next phase.

Before beginning this work, it’s important to start with a clear and shared understanding of a Race Equity Culture and the nature of the work required to create and sustain it. A Race Equity Culture is one that is focused on proactively counteracting race inequities inside and outside of an organization. It requires an adaptive and transformational approach that impacts behaviors and mindsets as well as practices, programs, and processes. The work of building a Race Equity Culture in an organization is focused on transforming organizational culture, practice and process to narrow (and eventually eliminate) race-based disparities in measurable outcomes (composition, compensation, promotion, retention, staff engagement, staff performance, et al.).  As such, before taking the Pulse Check we strongly recommend that your team be familiar with our Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture publication as the Pulse Check was created to function as its companion.

The User Guide, which will be periodically updated, contains answers to some of our frequently asked questions such as:

Who should be on my team?

What information will we need?

How much does this cost? 

The Pulse Check is not a downloadable tool, it lives on our platform as an interactive application. “Access” to the Pulse Check would mean that you are taking it on behalf of/as an organization – rather than receiving permission to view all of the questions. At no point during taking the Pulse Check will you be able to view all of the questions at once because it is designed to be taken in real-time with a team. As such, it was not developed for researchers to review or to be shared for learning.

We’re currently in conversations around what “access” would mean and look like for researchers and academics who want to share it for educational purposes. We’re excited that many of you wish to share it with your students and colleagues.