Abstract
Higher education's attempts at tackling the issue of anti-racism in its ivory towers may be facing an uphill battle. Strong opposition within and outside academia, in addition to perceptions of cultural competency training, force institutions to rethink the ways anti-racism training
should be designed and delivered. In this article, we present several challenges to anti-racism training and rebuttals to those challenges. In addition, we suggest a multipronged model to increase investment and engagement in anti-racism training for faculty using the Participatory Action
Learning and Action Research (PALAR) framework in the form of a colloquium.