Diversity Matters

Campus Climate Final Reports Released

The final campus climate reports review data that is unique to each population (undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty) and provide the opportunity to learn about the daily experiences of our campus community in their own words.

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Graduate School Assistant Dean for Inclusion and Engagement

Olufunmilayo (Funmi) Adebayo has been named assistant dean for inclusion and engagement at the Graduate School, where she will oversee the Graduate School’s recently established Office of Inclusion and Engagement.

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UMass Amherst Receives $1 Million to Enhance Inclusion

The College of Natural Sciences has received a five-year, $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to increase institutional capacity for inclusion of all science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors.

CNS Names First Director of Diversity

Jennifer M. McDermott, an assistant professor in psychological and brain sciences, has been named the College of Natural Sciences’ first director of diversity and inclusion for graduate and postdoctoral studies, effective July 1.

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CICS Names Diversity Directors

The College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) has named Emma Anderson and Erika Dawson-Head its first directors of diversity.

First-Generation Event Aims to Create Community

To celebrate first-generation students, the campus hosted the First-Generation Mixer on April 23, an event that united students, faculty, and staff who identify or identified as first-generation and low-income.

Building Bridges Inspires Connection

Building Bridges is a campus initiative that seeks to draw on the power of solidarity and creative expression to bring people together across race, religion, class, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, nationality, and more.

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