Engineered for Inequality: Calls from an Access Conference for Reimagining Higher Education in America

Luke Chitwood
5 min readJun 3, 2019

On any given day, most of the 2019 National Partnership for Educational Access (NPEA) conference-goers live and work in predominantly white spaces, wealthy spaces, privileged spaces. They climb stairs in towers of ivory, lowering ladders to those deterred by the ornate, antique doors.

But perhaps it doesn’t have to be this way.

Photo by Ken Theimer on Unsplash

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Luke Chitwood

Writer, Storyteller, Problem-Solver. Beginner-level Husband and Father. Coffee drinker since age 1. #CollegeAccess, #Writing, & #HigherEd.