JEROME CRANSTON, Ph.D.
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About Jerome

Jerome Cranston (he/him), Ph.D. (University of Manitoba), M.Ed. (University of Lethbridge), B.Ed. & B.Sc. (University of Alberta) is grateful to be a life-partner, father, brother and uncle.

Dr. Cranston is a race-conscious scholar-educator who focuses his energy and time on uncovering the overt and covert ways that racialized ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality and injustice with a goal of collectively finding solutions that can lead to greater equity, racial justice, and build healthier communities. He is a much sought-after presenter, consultant and educator on the topics of systemic racism and social inequity.

​Over his career, he has served on a number of diversity, equity and inclusion, and human rights advisory committees and working groups. Most recently, Dr. Cranston was the project lead and architect of the equity and racial justice learning program developed in partnership with the Canadian School Boards Association. 
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Jerome is currently the Vice-Provost, Students & Learning at the University of Saskatchewan. Previously he served as the Dean of Education at the University of Regina, as well as the Executive Director, Student Engagement and Success, and Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba. 

Jerome began his academic career at the University of Manitoba in 2008 and over time was asked to take on various leadership roles. Prior to that he spent 16 years in the K-12 education system as a teacher, principal and superintendent in a career that spanned Canada’s “prairie” provinces.
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Teaching & Learning Specializations

Educational Leadership

Aimed to help educational leaders build, communicate, and nurture a shared vision for their schools within jurisdictional frameworks that reflect the needs of the community.


​Educational Administration

A focus for educational administrators to develop an understanding of the social, political, socio-economic, legal, and cultural contexts of education, and their place within it. By understanding current contexts they are better able to shape the future. 

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Equity and Racial Justice

Focused on uncovering the overt and covert ways that racialized ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality and injustice with a goal of collectively finding solutions that can lead to greater equity, racial justice, and build healthier communities.

Human Rights Education

Places an emphasis on education as a human right with an interdisciplinary perspective
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