The State System of Higher Education's governing board adopted a resolution committing its universities to work together on maintaining and promoting inclusive communities.
State System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Greenstein said a resolution the board adopted on Thursday seeks to help unify the policies and procedures throughout the state universities system dealing with diversity, equity and inclusion. File/Photo courtesy of Commonwealth Media ServicesAt a time when Florida’s Gov.
“Universities are not that. That’s one of their great strengths because they can help people who are becoming increasingly apart from one another recognize that we are a very complex society. People think differently. They look differently. They are different.” Pennsylvania’s state universities have put a focus on developing that agenda and created a position of vice chancellor and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2020 to lead its efforts to address inequities in all areas impacting university communities.
Further, Haywood plans to introduce legislation to make racial harassment a violation of the state’s Human Relations Act and a bill to hold higher education institutions accountable for addressing hate speech.
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