Eboo Patel
Inside Higher Ed
Chicago, IL, United States
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Past articles by Eboo:
Colleges and the Vaccine Rollout
Campuses should be essential partners in all aspects of the vaccine rollout. → Read More
Leadership in a Time of Crisis
Case studies to inspire us now and to teach in our classrooms later. → Read More
On Wokeness and Power
Is wokeness the new cultural establishment? → Read More
7 Ways of Looking at Diversity
The diversity of ways we talk about diversity. → Read More
I’d Rather Learn How to Create Than to Criticize
What should colleges be emphasizing to their students -- creation or criticism? → Read More
A Diversity Program Every Campus Can Do
The People’s Supper -- you should organize one! → Read More
Obama and Cancel Culture
The Obama approach to diversity and disagreement is the one we should emulate. → Read More
The Grateful Dead as a Guide for Nonprofit Leadership
Want to run an organization well? Look to the Dead -- and listen to their music! → Read More
Being a Critic Is Fine. Being a Builder Is Better
A college campus is the ideal place to learn the skills to build a better order. → Read More
Who Counts as a Person of Color?
What portrayals of people of color become representative? Who has the power to do the representing? → Read More
Diversity Is Not Just About the Differences We Like
My remarks at the Weave Conference, hosted by David Brooks and the Aspen Institute. → Read More
Advice for Graduates
Part 1 of 3 of my 2019 Commencement Address at Augustana College. → Read More
Should College Prepare You For The Real World?
What athletics can teach the rest of us. → Read More
Should College Prepare You For The Real World?
What athletics can teach the rest of us. → Read More
Should Woke People Watch Dave Chappelle?
If diversity progressives believe that speech is violence, and that language that hypersexualizes women and stereotypes minority men as violent is pernicious, why are they (we) such avid consumers of cultural forms that unabashedly do both? → Read More
Zombie Jesus and the Running Person
Some thoughts on language, gender identity and religion. → Read More
Is the Emphasis on Marginalization Flattening Diversity Work?
Intersectionality theory welcomes conversation about multiple dimensions of identity but allows for the narration of only one type of experience. → Read More
Race, Gender and Geography
Why place is a crucial identity category in contemporary America. → Read More
What We Talk About When We Talk About Identity
Our dominant mental model of identity is not only wrong, it hurts minorities. → Read More
Religion Is as Important as Ever
Some thoughts about including religion in the campus/young adult diversity discourse. → Read More