University of Illinois Puts over $1 Million Towards Social Justice Projects

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has put almost $1.5 million towards research projects on racism and social injustice.

The university’s “Call to Action to Address Racism and Social Injustice,” which was first announced in July 2020, is an annual commitment to spend up to $2 million to fund research projects on racism and injustice. 

The university explains that the program is “a commitment by our university to put the need to address systemic racism and generationally embedded racial disparity into concrete action.”