Linking Collaborations

The Center for Institutional and Social Change is a collaborative response to this pressing need for new frameworks and approaches for effective institutional change. The collaborative stance began with Columbia Law School’s relationship with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which has a long history as a leader in the struggle to advance full social, political, and institutional citizenship. The Center solidifies a long history of collaboration between LDF and Columbia faculty and students.

In addition to the collaboration with LDF, the Center’s formation was fueled by the momentum of Columbia’s diversity initiative. That initiative grew out of the mobilization of a multi-disciplinary cadre of faculty from many departments in the Arts and Sciences and the professional schools at Columbia. Center faculty and staff are also part of broader collaborative networks of researchers and practitioners who are actively working on these issues. The Center’s approach brings together these collaborations to produce innovations in theory, new methodologies in research and teaching, and new forms of collaboration with the community.

Collaborators

The Center’s work proceeds through collaboration involving interdisciplinary researchers, policy makers, institutional leaders, advocates, and students who have identified the need to rethink current work in light of longer term strategies and vision, informed by empirical research. Collaborations have developed with other Centers and scholars engaged in related research, networks of change agents, and institutions attempting innovation and interested in systematic inquiry about what works and what doesn’t.

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The Center’s work is made possible by the contribution of resources by funders who share a commitment to collaboration in the development of knowledge aimed at advancing full participation and tackling structural inequality.

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