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Tiffany Baffour
Associate Dean of Graduate Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Utah
Education/Degree:
1 Social Work Social Work (Howard University)
About
Tiffany Baffour has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, curriculum development, practice, advocacy, research, and administrative leadership in the fields of social work and organizational development. She serves as Associate Dean for Graduate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Graduate School and Associate Professor in the University of Utah’s College of Social Work, while advancing her research agenda in the areas of anti-racist and inclusive pedagogy, carceral systems, mental health/health disparities, and community-based participatory research. Most recently, Dr. Baffour served as co-guest editor of a two-volume issue for the journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping (“A Call for Social Work Educators to Confront and Dismantle Systemic Racism Within Social Work Programs”). This work looks at intersectional perspectives for solving systemic racism within social work education. She earned her Ph.D. in social work from Howard University.
Current Work
Baffour's scholarship promotes strategies to dismantle systemic racism within higher education. With colleagues across disciplines and institutions, she embarked on a scoping review of more than 23,000 documents of anti-racism programs and practices in higher education (Baffour et. al., 2023) Along with her colleague, Shonda Lawrence, she produced a two-volume issue titled “A Call for Social Work Educators to Confront and Dismantle Systemic Racism Within Social Work Programs.” The special issue amplified the narratives and experiences of faculty, and students dismantling systemic racism in social work programs globally. Inspired by the development of the Special Call, Baffour produced a scholarly personal narrative centering critical race theory and institutional strategies to promote EDI, particularly in STEM disciplines (Baffour, 2023). Her current scholarly projects examine citation bias, sense of belonging among BIPOC students and the impact of COVID-19 on student mental health.
Research Area Keyword(s)
anti-racism research, diversity equity and inclusion, higher education practices, systemic racism, mental health care delivery