Since its founding in 2018, the Equity in Architectural Education Consortium has conceived, initiated and developed a consortium alliance among Florida A&M University, Florida International University, Hampton University, Howard University, Morgan State University, Tuskegee University, the University of Oklahoma and U-M.

The central activity of the EAEC has been the Stacked Mentorship Program, a new model of mentorship that has included approximately 650 participants from nearly 20 institutions.

The outcome of the EAEC’s SMP has been a meta-mentorship community composed of institutions that vary with respect to size, location, populations served and public/private status. In addition to five core “stacks” of mentorship activities, the EAEC includes several co-curricular events: two student-led speaker series, Under Consideration and Inspired By; two discussion series, the EAEC Spotlight Series and EAEC Focus Group Conversation; and one symposium. Combined they have hosted 57 guest speakers at approximately 30 separate events.

The EAEC’s principal innovation, the SMP, is a new model of mentorship that supports and creates a framework for increased access, representation and self-efficacy, as well as exposure to diverse teaching and learning contexts, new remote teaching and learning methods, advances in inclusive pedagogy, and the development and implementation of co-curricular learning activities.

It also includes the establishment of a meta-mentorship, education-focused community consisting of current students, faculty and alumni of color and other underrepresented groups from all levels of education and experience and institutional types (predominantly white, minority- and Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, public, private, small and large, urban, suburban and rural institutions of teaching and learning).

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Irene Hwang, Lecturer IV in architecture, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and director of the Equity in Architectural Education Consortium