Institutional Climate & Intergroup Relations
Goal: Ensure that each student's identity and lived experience is respected and reflected in admission and financial aid.
Division: Admission & Financial Aid
Goal: Shape culture of the College to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, creating a sense of belonging for all staff and faculty.
Division: Admission & Financial Aid, Campus Opertions, Communications, General Counsel, Information Technology, Provost, Student Affairs
Goal: Engage in learning and development opportunities to increase DEI competencies across staff and expand our ability to engage in conversations on D, E & I, and effectively support a diverse student body and inclusive campus culture.
Division: Admission & Financial Aid, Advancement, Campus Operations, Finance, Information Technology, Student Affairs
Goal: Ensure a high level of engagement (70%) across the alumni body, evenly distributed across demographic groups.
Division: Advancement
Goal: Examine both the voice and content of communications in Advancement to meet consistent and high standards that reflect active anti-racism and a commitment to the many voices across our alumni body. Provide resources to Advancement staff in front-facing roles—via broad-based or one-on-one channels—to equip them to manage difficult conversations with alumni, parents and friends and advance Amherst’s anti-racism values.
Division: Advancement
Goal: Foster culture of gender equity across Campus Operations that also supports and embraces LGBTQ and gender non-binary faculty, staff and students.
Division: Campus Operations
Goal: Foster culture of gender equity across Campus Operations that also supports and embraces LGBTQ and gender non-binary faculty, staff and students.
Division: Campus Operations
Goal: Actively choose and produce content that represents the diversity of ideas, contributions and intersectional identities of Amherst students, alumni, faculty and staff; that speaks to a diverse audience; and that is shared in a way that is accessible to all.
Division: Communications, Advancement
Goal: Celebrate and elevate the visibility of people from historically marginalized groups who are launching creative projects; conducting relevant, timely research; collaborating across disciplines; working in the community (local, regional and global); receiving awards and/or “making a difference,” in a broadly defined way.
Division: Communications
Goal: Establish a practice of planning and designing fully inclusive event experiences so individuals of all identities and abilities are engaged in and able to fully participate in events.
Division: Communications
Goal: In our efforts to tell the complete story of Amherst College, work to position Communications as a service-oriented department that is known for integrity, professionalism and open-mindedness.
Division: Communications
Goal: Help the College be more proactive as opposed to reactive as current events unfold.
Division: Communications
Goal: Address concerns around service expectations for faculty at the College.
Division: Provost
Goal: Ensure more awareness among faculty of bias in the college community.
Division: Provost
Goal: Improve the experience of visiting professors.
Division: Provost
Goal: Create the conditions for an anti-racist work environment.
Division: Provost
Goal: Develop the abilities of supervisors to provide effective leadership to their departments.
Division: Provost
Goal: Meet the many challenges of accessibility within the IT space by leveraging partnerships, creating deliberate goals and outcomes.
Division: Information Technology
Goal: Develop leadership in high-level IT leaders.
Division: Information Technology
Goal: Have a Title IX Office that is welcoming to and utilized by all students.
Division: Office of the General Counsel
Goal: In collaboration with OSA and ODEI, promote a culture of sexual respect.
Division: Office of the General Counsel
Goal: Assess student access and connection to offices and services within Student Affairs in order to ensure equity in wellbeing, sense of belonging, and engagement across all students, especially those who hold historically and presently marginalized identities.
Division: Office of Student Affairs
Goal: Collaborate with each department to integrate a DEI lens into their work and therefore increase students’ engagement with DEI-focused opportunities across our division.
Division: Office of Student Affairs
Goal: Integrate a DEI framework into the development and implementation of a holistic approach to supporting student well-being and meaning-making.
Division: Office of Student Affairs
Goal: Create opportunities for the Amherst community to engage in dialogue and programming to advance a College culture that fosters connection, belonging and equity.
Division: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Goal: Support the sharing of a comprehensive, accessible, and inclusive story of the College.
Division: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Goal: Partner with the Provost/Dean of the Faculty Office and ODEI's Faculty Equity and Inclusion Officers in order to advance the work of creating inclusive and equitable academic departments across the College.
Division: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Goal: Apply equity framework to identify and address challenges students may face due to structural barriers.
Division: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Goal: Build the capacity of all members of the faculty and staff community to engage as DEI scholars and practitioners in order to shape a culture of equity and inclusion.
Division: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Goal: Foster a campus environment for all students, staff and faculty that is fair, equitable, inclusive, and free of and responsive to discrimination, bias, and gender and sexual misconduct.
Division: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion