Diversity helps organizational performance and contributes to social justice. But many universities lack social diversity. In France, noted Chantal Dardelet (ESSEC Business School), a child from an underprivileged background is seven times less likely to pursue higher education than a child of a senior executive or teacher.
In a session for the NBS Sustainability Centres Community Workshop, Dardelet and her colleague Adrián Zicari drew on their institution’s experience to show a model for increasing diversity in education.
For nearly 20 years, ESSEC Business School has been supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Since 2002, ESSEC’s Equal Opportunity Center has run programs to address inequalities in access to higher education, whether economic, geographic or disability-related. Today, 80,000 young people benefit from ESSEC's programs, which have been extended to more than 100 schools and inspired national public policy.
Session leaders asked: How can society change the way it looks at diversity to better include everyone and acknowledge the strength in differences?
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