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LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff today
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 6/11/20 at 9:09 pm6114
Dear LSU Families,
LSU sent the following message to students, faculty, and staff today, and we wanted to share it with you.
June 11, 2020
5:30 p.m.
Dear LSU Family,
Last night, we held a summit with a fantastic group of Black student leaders that culminated a week of eye-opening conversations to determine concrete steps our university can take to address inequities on campus to become a more inclusive and diverse culture. We have listened, and now it’s time for LSU to prove its commitment.
The actions we’re outlining today will not immediately solve every issue we need to address. Thus, we have committed to ongoing conversations so that we continue to make progress. As we move forward, mistakes will surely be made. However, if we continue to work together in a spirit of collaboration, we are confident our mistakes will lead to continued forward progress.
Effective immediately, we are taking the following actions to address a platform of concerns that Black student leaders on campus have presented us:
Increase the ratio of minority professionals in every academic area.
To achieve this in the short-term, we will increase and energize our existing Opportunity Hire initiative through the Office of Diversity. In the mid-term, we will deploy block hires as outlined in the University’s Roadmap to Diversity & Inclusion, and in the long-term we will develop a stronger pipeline to recruit students of color into academic careers and expand academic mentorship and retention.
Increase funding for minority programs and departments to positively affect the Black student experience.
In the short term, we have identified fundraising opportunities to support the African American Cultural Center— please consider giving at give.lsufoundation.org/aacc. In the mid-term, we’ll study the type of activities and programming that contribute most directly to Black student recruitment, retention, and engagement. And in the long-term, LSU will work to build seed funding and a development pipeline for these activities and programming.
Organize LSU resources specifically targeted towards minority students and workers dealing with mental health and trauma.
In the short-term, we’ll engage with students to explore building a mental health hotline or other forms of more immediate access to mental health. In the long-term we will work to increase the presence of Black and minority medical professionals on campus.
Address and correct issues of racism and discrimination on campus through the Student Code of Conduct and LSU Student Advocacy and Accountability.
In the short-term, we will explore new ways to bolster our Student Code of Conduct by adding specific language regarding diversity, racism and prejudice. In the mid-term, we’ll make the adjudication process more transparent through open communications. And in the long-term, we’ll conduct a policy audit to ensure that inclusion, diversity and anti-racism are appropriately embedded.
Make timely statements condemning racism and injustice and implement policies clearly outlining the University’s standard of disapproval.
LSU will publicly express condemnation of racism and racist behavior and continuing to investigate every instance of racism reported to us, pursuing the appropriate action through our Code of Conduct and any other policy or code available to us.
Include Black student representatives in University administration conversations that impact the student body.
In the short-term, the administration will continue to meet often with Black student leaders. These meetings will occur at least on a quarterly basis and more often as needed. We also commit to including diverse representation on executive searches and to providing diversity training for all search committees.
We are also taking the following steps to further ensure that our campus community is inclusive and welcoming to all. We commit to:
Making inclusion a major part of university communications;
Developing and implementing improved annual diversity training;
Increasing community building opportunities for diverse students, faculty, and staff;
Adding diversity offerings to New Employee Orientation; and
Strengthening LSU’s position on diversity to reflect anti-racism.
Additionally, at the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting on June 19 we will consider a motion to remove the name Troy H. Middleton from LSU’s library. The library is a place where our students of color should feel welcome and safe as they study, learn, and congregate with their peers. Building and place names should not be a reminder of a racist past, reminders that inhibit our students’ learning and their full inclusion on campus. Our history is stained with racism; we must eradicate the present impact of that sad past. We will also convene a committee to review and study other building names on campus to determine if they are symbols or monuments to racism.
Today is a new beginning of our work to foster an inclusive campus community welcoming to all. We have made incredible strides in recent years to increase and promote diversity at LSU, but there’s a lot more work to be done. The actions we’re announcing today will further our efforts, but they won’t be the end of them.
We appreciate the candor and commitment of our outstanding Black student leaders, and we thank them for their work to bring our great university into a new day. We will continue our conversations with Black student leaders, our Black Faculty and Staff Caucus, and other representatives of under-represented communities in our LSU Family. Together we will take actions to eliminate inequality, racism, and other barriers that any members of our LSU community face. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to LSU's mission, and our university is committed to creating and maintaining a living and learning environment that not only embraces individual difference but thrives because of it.
Sincerely,
Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.
LSU Interim President and Professor of Law
Mary L. Werner
LSU Board of Supervisors Chair
LSU sent the following message to students, faculty, and staff today, and we wanted to share it with you.
June 11, 2020
5:30 p.m.
Dear LSU Family,
Last night, we held a summit with a fantastic group of Black student leaders that culminated a week of eye-opening conversations to determine concrete steps our university can take to address inequities on campus to become a more inclusive and diverse culture. We have listened, and now it’s time for LSU to prove its commitment.
The actions we’re outlining today will not immediately solve every issue we need to address. Thus, we have committed to ongoing conversations so that we continue to make progress. As we move forward, mistakes will surely be made. However, if we continue to work together in a spirit of collaboration, we are confident our mistakes will lead to continued forward progress.
Effective immediately, we are taking the following actions to address a platform of concerns that Black student leaders on campus have presented us:
Increase the ratio of minority professionals in every academic area.
To achieve this in the short-term, we will increase and energize our existing Opportunity Hire initiative through the Office of Diversity. In the mid-term, we will deploy block hires as outlined in the University’s Roadmap to Diversity & Inclusion, and in the long-term we will develop a stronger pipeline to recruit students of color into academic careers and expand academic mentorship and retention.
Increase funding for minority programs and departments to positively affect the Black student experience.
In the short term, we have identified fundraising opportunities to support the African American Cultural Center— please consider giving at give.lsufoundation.org/aacc. In the mid-term, we’ll study the type of activities and programming that contribute most directly to Black student recruitment, retention, and engagement. And in the long-term, LSU will work to build seed funding and a development pipeline for these activities and programming.
Organize LSU resources specifically targeted towards minority students and workers dealing with mental health and trauma.
In the short-term, we’ll engage with students to explore building a mental health hotline or other forms of more immediate access to mental health. In the long-term we will work to increase the presence of Black and minority medical professionals on campus.
Address and correct issues of racism and discrimination on campus through the Student Code of Conduct and LSU Student Advocacy and Accountability.
In the short-term, we will explore new ways to bolster our Student Code of Conduct by adding specific language regarding diversity, racism and prejudice. In the mid-term, we’ll make the adjudication process more transparent through open communications. And in the long-term, we’ll conduct a policy audit to ensure that inclusion, diversity and anti-racism are appropriately embedded.
Make timely statements condemning racism and injustice and implement policies clearly outlining the University’s standard of disapproval.
LSU will publicly express condemnation of racism and racist behavior and continuing to investigate every instance of racism reported to us, pursuing the appropriate action through our Code of Conduct and any other policy or code available to us.
Include Black student representatives in University administration conversations that impact the student body.
In the short-term, the administration will continue to meet often with Black student leaders. These meetings will occur at least on a quarterly basis and more often as needed. We also commit to including diverse representation on executive searches and to providing diversity training for all search committees.
We are also taking the following steps to further ensure that our campus community is inclusive and welcoming to all. We commit to:
Making inclusion a major part of university communications;
Developing and implementing improved annual diversity training;
Increasing community building opportunities for diverse students, faculty, and staff;
Adding diversity offerings to New Employee Orientation; and
Strengthening LSU’s position on diversity to reflect anti-racism.
Additionally, at the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting on June 19 we will consider a motion to remove the name Troy H. Middleton from LSU’s library. The library is a place where our students of color should feel welcome and safe as they study, learn, and congregate with their peers. Building and place names should not be a reminder of a racist past, reminders that inhibit our students’ learning and their full inclusion on campus. Our history is stained with racism; we must eradicate the present impact of that sad past. We will also convene a committee to review and study other building names on campus to determine if they are symbols or monuments to racism.
Today is a new beginning of our work to foster an inclusive campus community welcoming to all. We have made incredible strides in recent years to increase and promote diversity at LSU, but there’s a lot more work to be done. The actions we’re announcing today will further our efforts, but they won’t be the end of them.
We appreciate the candor and commitment of our outstanding Black student leaders, and we thank them for their work to bring our great university into a new day. We will continue our conversations with Black student leaders, our Black Faculty and Staff Caucus, and other representatives of under-represented communities in our LSU Family. Together we will take actions to eliminate inequality, racism, and other barriers that any members of our LSU community face. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to LSU's mission, and our university is committed to creating and maintaining a living and learning environment that not only embraces individual difference but thrives because of it.
Sincerely,
Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.
LSU Interim President and Professor of Law
Mary L. Werner
LSU Board of Supervisors Chair
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by Sun God on 6/11/20 at 9:12 pm to Ignatius Reilly
I hope this is just an elaborate football recruiting pitch
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by Bullfrog on 6/11/20 at 9:13 pm to Ignatius Reilly
So how much are Southeastern or ULL season football tickets?
May have to make a change.
May have to make a change.
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by RidiculousHype on 6/11/20 at 9:13 pm to Ignatius Reilly
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by tigergirl10 on 6/11/20 at 9:13 pm to Ignatius Reilly
quote:Good luck with that!
we have identified fundraising opportunities to support the African American Cultural Center— please consider giving at give.lsufoundation.org/aacc.
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by The Boat on 6/11/20 at 9:14 pm to Ignatius Reilly
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by tigergirl10 on 6/11/20 at 9:14 pm to Ignatius Reilly
How many black students do they have? What’s Southern and Grambling for?
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by OldmanBeasley on 6/11/20 at 9:14 pm to Ignatius Reilly
Maybe it’s time I went back to the insane asylum
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by upgrayedd on 6/11/20 at 9:15 pm to Ignatius Reilly
My fantasy would be that all faculty at LSU would be angry black women that give white kids automatic F's in their class just for being white so they would spend $200k for no degree at all.
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re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by whit on 6/11/20 at 9:16 pm to Ignatius Reilly
I’m not reading all of that.
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by JOJO Hammer on 6/11/20 at 9:17 pm to Ignatius Reilly
quote:
ncrease the ratio of minority professionals in every academic area.
This will eventually lead to a lower standard at LSU. The goal should be to hire the best people regardless of race, sex, religion..
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by CaptainsWafer on 6/11/20 at 9:18 pm to Ignatius Reilly
I didn’t read past
Dear LSU Families
And I stopped bc it looks like a TulaneLSU post
Dear LSU Families
And I stopped bc it looks like a TulaneLSU post
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by fallguy_1978 on 6/11/20 at 9:18 pm to Sun God
quote:
LSU about to drop out of the top 200 schools
Y’all know anyone that can forge a diploma?
I first graduated 20 years ago so I don't think anyone cares where I went to college anymore
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by nugget on 6/11/20 at 9:18 pm to Ignatius Reilly
I’m totally identifying as black from now on to get on this gravy train. See you baws at the bank.
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by WaWaWeeWa on 6/11/20 at 9:20 pm to Ignatius Reilly
Diversity
Injustice
Equity
Inclusion
Checked off all of the Marxist Postmodern buzzwords. The left and universities are dragging this country toward socialism. When do we say enough is enough?
Injustice
Equity
Inclusion
Checked off all of the Marxist Postmodern buzzwords. The left and universities are dragging this country toward socialism. When do we say enough is enough?
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by CornDogCologne on 6/11/20 at 9:20 pm to Ignatius Reilly
Holy wall of text. What is it with these white guilt idiots and their lack of brevity? I don’t want to read your lecture anyway, so how about you keep it simple.
And don’t expect any donations from me. Ever.
And don’t expect any donations from me. Ever.
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by TDsngumbo on 6/11/20 at 9:21 pm to Ignatius Reilly
There will be bombshell fraud allegations regarding LSU within the next five years.
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by yaboidarrell on 6/11/20 at 9:21 pm to Sun God
LSU isn't the only college pandering to the very loud minority.
re: LSU's email regarding race, inequities, etc. to students, families, faculty & staff todayPosted by upgrayedd on 6/11/20 at 9:21 pm to Ignatius Reilly
Unless the white LSU staff and senior administration ceremoniously wash the feet of the students of color, they're nothing more than unapologetic white supremacists.
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