Moving forward: your help needed
Barrett stands with our African American community and all students who are working for an end to institutionalized racism. We completely subscribe to President Michael Crow’s call to all members of the ASU community to engage in the process of new ideas, new designs and new initiatives to ensure that the United States Constitution’s directive of equal justice to all in our society is recognized and brought to reality.
In fall 2020, student, faculty and staff members of the Barrett community collaborated to build a framework that puts in place mechanisms to permanently address racial injustice in our country. The Barrett Racial Justice Taskforce evolved from our work with the Barrett Honors College (Student) Council, and provided the opportunity for students, faculty and staff to participate in both a larger Task Force and constituent working groups that emerged from this effort to identify and implement new priority areas linked to racial justice and racial inclusion.
As we continue to move forward with these priorities, as well as many outcomes over the past year listed above, we seek your help. If you have other suggestions for work we can do to continue to enhance racial justice at Barrett, please don’t hesitate to contact any members of the Barrett leadership. Students can also provide feedback.
We are committed to long-term, meaningful systemic change, and we welcome your support and input. We believe that by strengthening our commitment to promoting equity throughout Barrett Honors College we are strengthening our overall community and creating opportunities for all students to be the best they can be. We continue to work with our Barrett Honors College Council to ensure that we have strong student representation in providing ongoing feedback, and we encourage you to join the BHCC and get to know your BHCC Senators; this organization is central to long-term, sustainable engagement around issues of racial justice. We also look forward to collaborating with the other colleges of the university and their students and deans in this crucial work and effort to remain steadfast in our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
As we continue to work on these solutions, and strive to advance in other areas of action, we seek input from students, faculty and staff from the honors community. We encourage your participation by either (a) volunteering to be a member of working groups associated with these goals or (b) sending in your suggestions for improvement in these, or other related, areas at Barrett.
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