The Roger Williams University community has committed to diversity, 尊重所有种族, ethnicities, genders, 身份和能力, 获得负担得起的教育. Our diversity, equity, inclusion, and access efforts are embedded within our 战略行动计划 对我们的机构发展方向至关重要.
我们的多元化、公平、包容 & Access Initiatives include macro initiatives that embed equity into all our university operations, 以及支持留住员工的重点举措, empowerment and thriving of underrepresented students and employees.
“Racism Stops with Me” is a university-wide antiracism campaign to bring forward the full commitment of our senior leadership, our faculty and staff, and our students in learning and engaging in antiracist practices and showing up with their support for our BIPOC community members across our campuses.
"Something that really helped me was to use all the resources that the school provides.”
2020-2022年股权行动计划
Goal: To create the conditions for transformation by focusing on three key areas:
Critical Mass: 我们必须增加教员的人口代表性, staff and student body and commit to increasing access in order to reach critical mass.
Capacity Building: 达到并维持临界质量, all members of our campus community must develop their intercultural fluency through a variety of relevant strategies suited to different stakeholder groups. 该计划还侧重于支持, 赋予少数族裔学生和员工权力并提高他们的地位.
RWU will be known as a demographically diverse institution that supports access, achieves equitable outcomes along all critical indicators of success and supports the thriving of underserved students.
Roger Williams University will be an organization known for its success in hiring, 发展和促进少数群体的成员. In addition, it will be an employer of choice for talented individuals who embrace the institution’s ambitious diversity, 公平和包容的目标和目的.
Roger Williams will create a campus climate dedicated to inclusion, equity and respect, enabling community members to thrive and experience a genuine sense of belonging.
RWU will be known as an institution that lives up to its educational imperative to interrupt inequity and the injustice that is deeply embedded in histories, 压迫的遗产和结构, power, and privilege in higher education through the delivery of programs, courses and pedagogical strategies that foster transformation and effective and positive interactions in a world that is multicultural, 全球化和相互依存.
As one of the American Advertising Federation’s Most Promising Multicultural Students of 2023, RWU senior S. Isaiah Braithwaite spent a week visiting major ad agencies and meeting industry leaders.