Diversity & Anti-racism Initiatives

During the 2019–20 academic year, the Board of Trustees began to formally consider the physical and social needs of �Ĳʿ�� juniors and seniors as part of a review of their residential life experience. The aim was to see how best to provide appropriate residential and social space for all �Ĳʿ�� students. In conjunction with this effort, �Ĳʿ�� engaged the planning firms RAMSA and WXY — the firms engaged to develop plans for the University’s Middle Campus — as well as the Sasaki Group to consider the current conditions of the housing and social spaces available to �Ĳʿ�� juniors and seniors. While these planning efforts necessarily slowed down in the spring as a result of COVID-19, these firms will be charged to continue this work in collaboration with the administration during this academic year. First, they will be asked to consider the numerous studies conducted in past years on residential life at the University, and they will also be charged to consider housing and social options available at peer and national institutions. This review work should be completed within the fall semester, allowing for the development of a long-range plan of the upper-level residential and social experience and the provision of new residential and social opportunities for all �Ĳʿ�� students. As previously stated, this planning will be done as part of a comprehensive effort consistent with the goals and objectives of The Third-Century Plan and the DEI Plan. This initiative will help to address inequities in the student social and residential experiences.

We will support plans for new programming and improvements to �Ĳʿ��’s long-standing Harlem Renaissance Center, located in the Bryan Complex on the upper part of the campus. Further, faculty and the Residential Commons directors will work to develop a dedicated Sophomore Residential Seminar associated with Hancock Commons and the Harlem Renaissance Center. This initiative provides a robust living learning community for students interested in race, ethnicity, and the African diaspora.

With the commencement of the new academic year, we will engage �Ĳʿ�� faculty and students, as well as national scholars, in a comprehensive review of �Ĳʿ��’s history, with particular emphasis on the histories of non-majority groups at the University. This project will build in important ways on the bicentennial explorations of �Ĳʿ��’s mission and history by acknowledging the history and contributions of people of color to the �Ĳʿ�� campus and community.

Named after �Ĳʿ��’s first Black graduate, this new endowment fund, valued at $500,000, will be used to support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and will be managed by the incoming CDO.

The newly established Alumni of Color Third-Century Fund will provide new support for our ongoing and developing DEI initiatives.

Through a remarkable gift from trustee Giovanni Cutaia ’94 and his wife, Maree, we have created the President’s DEI Discretionary Fund to support new diversity efforts and programs. Immediate allocations from this fund will support the following new programs for �Ĳʿ�� students.

Internship Funds for Students of Color

New funds will be allocated to ensure students of color have the support needed to pursue summer internships.

Funds to Support Graduate Fellowships and Graduate School Applications

Applications to graduate school or national fellowships have high costs that can discourage students of color and low-income students from applying. New funds will be allocated to defray these applications and related costs, expanding these opportunities to students of color and low-income students.

Peer-to-Peer Program Funding

The ALANA Cultural Center provides programming for all students. New funds will allow ALANA to support student-developed efforts across campus.

National Partnership

�Ĳʿ�� has now joined , a national consortium that will help diversify our faculty. The consortium partners the premiere research universities in the nation with a small number of leading liberal arts colleges to appoint scholars of color who have recently completed their doctoral degrees. �Ĳʿ�� has now joined this consortium. CFD scholars will come directly to �Ĳʿ�� through new post-doctoral fellowships and will immediately teach in the University’s curriculum.

Alumni Programming

Thanks to the work of the Partnership for Racial Progress, a group of alumni of color who seek to enhance life at the University and promote a sense of community and connection among �Ĳʿ�� graduates, the University is pleased to announce the following:

New Mosaic Program Funds

Mosaic connects multicultural alumni with current �Ĳʿ�� students, providing them with an opportunity to learn from alumni experiences on careers and on navigating life during and after �Ĳʿ��. President’s DEI Discretionary Fund dollars will be provided to enhance this program.

Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance

�Ĳʿ�� is an inaugural member of the Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance (LACRELA), a consortium of institutions geared toward finding creative solutions for addressing issues of racial equity and diversity on campus. LACRELA was launched by the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center, whose mission is to illuminate, disrupt, and dismantle racism in all its forms.

Member colleges have access to special campus surveys and data as well as monthly eConvenings, by invitation, for faculty and staff members seeking to learn more about antiracism and diversity efforts. These three-hour learning sessions, each on a different topic, are delivered by highly respected leaders of national higher education associations, tenured professors who study race relations and people of color, chief diversity officers, and other experienced administrators.

Board Strategies to Achieve Racial Equity
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Centering Racial Equity in Your Student Success Agenda
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Chief Diversity Officer’s Role in Advancing Racial Equity
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Classroom Incivility and Productive Conversations �Ĳʿ�� Race
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Reducing Implicit Bias in The Search and Hiring Process
Friday, June 10, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Race Conscious Enrollment Management
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Communicating Institutional Progress on Racial Equity Goals
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Dismantling Persistent Racial Equity Problems in Stem
Friday, September 16, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Making Racial Equity Data Transparent
Friday, October 21, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm

Understanding Campus Unrest and Responding to Student Protest
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Using Assessment and Evaluation to Improve Campus Racial Climates
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm

Managing and Resolving Racial Tensions in the Workplace
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Leading Productive Conversations �Ĳʿ�� Racism
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Teaching the Truth �Ĳʿ�� Slavery and America’s Racial History
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Fostering and Sustaining Inclusive Classrooms for Students of Color
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Accountability and Incentives for Advancing Racial Equity
Monday, April 5, 2021

Confronting Explicit Acts of Racism and Racial Violence on Campus
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Disaggregating Data to Identify Racial Inequities
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Recovering from COVID-19 Racial Inequities
Thursday, July 15, 2021
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Strategically Hiring Faculty of Color
Thursday, September 16, 2021
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Supporting and Retaining Faculty of Color
Monday, October 4, 2021
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Recruiting and Strategically Diversifying Staff at All Levels
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Creating Equitable Pathways to Leadership Roles for Employees of Color
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

Meaningfully Integrating Racial Topics Across the Curriculum
Monday, January 24, 2022
9am-12pm PST/12pm-3pm EST

�Ĳʿ�� employees interested in participating can contact Renee Madison, vice president for equity and inclusion, at rmadison@colgate.edu.

Employees can access recordings of the previous sessions and the associated resources. Note that you will need to sign in to your �Ĳʿ��-affiliated Gmail account to access the recordings.

Note: These files are for �Ĳʿ�� use only through permission of LACRELA. Please do not circulate them outside of the �Ĳʿ�� community.

How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk �Ĳʿ�� Race, Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations �Ĳʿ�� Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A.Blackmon
Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
How to Be Less Stupid �Ĳʿ�� Race, Crystal M. Fleming,
When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele

13th
I Am Not Your Negro
When They See Us
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
TED Talks playlist:

1619 from The New York Times
Floodlines from The Atlantic
Intersectionality Matters! from The African American Policy Forum
Throughline from NPR
Code Switch from NPR
�Ĳʿ�� Race from Panoply
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast from Race Forward
Pod For The Cause from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

Racial equity tools:
Action Plan Guidebook: from Holy Cross
Combating Structural Racism: from the Aspen Institute
Challenge: from American Bar Association

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