Our Aspirations
To create and foster an inclusive environment and culture that supports:
- Equipping effective future leaders with the knowledge and skills to work across differences and use that to problem solve, challenge assumptions and provide impactful solutions.
- Recruiting, providing an excellent education to, and graduating a diverse student body.
- Recruiting, retaining and fostering the careers of diverse faculty and staff.
- Rigorous research and analysis that address inequities and effective strategies for positive change
Our Values
- We value diversity and inclusion along, but not limited to, the dimensions of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, socio-economic background, and political ideology.
- We recognize that building an inclusive school, with a diverse student body and diverse faculty and staff, is essential to our mission, our ability to have impact, and to prepare our students to change the world.
- We recognize the need to address systemic racism and other forms of systemic discrimination, understand their histories and inequitable consequences, and develop effective corrective responses.
- Dismantling racism is a long term effort requiring active engagement of broad input and participation; and this is a living document that will require continual development.
Our Goals
TEACHING & LEARNING
- Develop curriculum and programming that address institutional, structural, and interpersonal racism and inequality, and foster equity and inclusion.
- Leverage existing work from academic faculty and research centers addressing racial and social justice.
CREATING A DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT
- Identify and implement effective strategies to recruit a diverse community of faculty, staff and students; develop metrics to support transparency and accountability.
- Create opportunities for the McCourt community to convene, converse and take action to address racism and inequality.
- Develop skills and structures that foster open and equitable participation.
PARTNERSHIPS
- Continue building collaborations with institutions and organizations supporting diversity and inclusion.
- Continue and expand pipeline programs.
- Strengthen our partnership with National Urban Fellows.
- Continue to seek out and build philanthropic partnerships rooted in a shared commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
IMPACT
- Support rigorous research, policy development and community engagement that address racism and inequality and advance racial and social justice.