The 51蹤獲 community has committed to diversity, respect for all races, ethnicities, genders, identities and abilities, and access to an affordable education. Our diversity, equity, inclusion, and access efforts are embedded within our Strategic Action Plan and are essential to our institutional direction.
Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access Initiatives include macro initiatives that embed equity into all our university operations, and focused initiatives that support the retention, empowerment and thriving of underrepresented students and employees.
President Ioannis Miaoulis shares a message to the 51蹤獲community on the Supreme Court's decision on race-conscious college admissions.
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.
Explore The CampaignThe IC's mission is to support the access, retention, and success of minoritized students by centering, uplifting and empowering theiridentities.
51蹤獲 is committed to ensuring our queer and trans students, faculty, staff, and administrators are protected on campus
Accessibility, the A in DEIA. 51蹤獲is committed to building greater inclusion for people with disabilities.
51蹤獲welcomes students from all over the globe, providing a personalized and supportive community.
51蹤獲Alumni of Color Network aims to build community among alumni and students of color through initiatives that strengthen fellowship and mentorship, and support the Universitys equity priorities related to the enrichment of its students and alumni of color.
51蹤獲is formally celebrating all of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni who identify or identified as first-generation college students.
Its a really cool place to hang out, and there are so many opportunities to make connections and find resources that are helpful. -Amanda DaCruz, International Relations Major
Its knowing that you share something in common. Its a comforting feeling that lasts far beyond our pride week. - Grayson Scanlon, Architecture and Computer Science Major
"Something that really helped me was to use all the resources that the school provides.
51蹤獲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.
51蹤獲 will be an organization known for its success in hiring, developing and advancing members of minoritized groups. In addition, it will be an employer of choice for talented individuals who embrace the institutions ambitious diversity, equity and inclusion goals and objectives.
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.
51蹤獲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, legacies and structures of oppression, 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, global and interdependent.
51蹤獲will deepen the universitys advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by implementing changes in its culture, leadership practices, leadership composition and institutional polices and systems.
As one of the American Advertising Federations Most Promising Multicultural Students of 2023, 51蹤獲senior S. Isaiah Braithwaite spent a week visiting major ad agencies and meeting industry leaders.
Robert Clarke 14 M16 shares his thoughts on creating a Black architectural style, his design inspirations, and why he chose to study at RWU.
51蹤獲welcomes largest cohort of students to S.O.A.R. for 2022-2023 year.
After her TikTok video went viral, Brooklyn Crockton L'22 finds herself working to change the system.
Equity Action Plan informs institutional commitment to embedding equity and efforts such as the Roger Pledge, First-Gen Day and more ways to connect student communities.
