How can it be that 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, our institutions of higher education have still not found ways of reducing the higher education gaps for racial and ethnic groups pThat is the question that informs and animates the Equity Scorecard model of organizational change. It shifts institutions' focus from what students do or fail to do to what institutions can do--through their practices and structures, as well as the actions of their leaders and faculty--to produce equity in outcomes for racially marginalized populations. Drawing on the theory of action research, it creates a structure for practitioners to become investigators of their own institutional culture, to become aware of racial disparities, confront their own practices and learn how things are done on their own turf to ask In what ways am I contributing to equityinequity pThe Equity Scorecard model differs significantly from traditional approaches to effecting change by creating institutional te