Carroll College

As part of the 2022-2023 Academic Catalog, one of the stated "Student Learning Outcomes" of the Teacher Education Program is described as follows: "[Use] understanding of individual differences and diverse cultures and communities, including American Indians and tribes in Montana and English Language Learners (ELL), to ensure inclusive environments that enable each learner to meet high standards."

Carroll College provides a report form for a bias incident or hate crime in order to "report conduct or speech, which results in harassment, threat, intimidation, or a criminal offense toward a person or group or property, that is motivated--in whole or in part--by the perpetrator's bias."

Carroll College's DEI Taskforce sponsored a program where students submit creative works relating to anti-racism for inclusion in a publication titled "Saints Against Racism."

In 2022 Carroll College committed to "giving a scholarship [STEM Diversity Scholarship] of $2,500 to qualified applicants looking to enter the STEM field" which would be available to either "a female high school senior of color interested in pursuing a STEM degree in college, OR a female undergraduate college sophomore or junior of color currently pursuing a STEM degree."

The college offers the "Bemo and Sortsmart Diversity Advocacy Scholarship" which is described as follows: "At BeMo and SortSmart, we believe education is your most valuable asset and that everyone deserves access to higher education regardless of social, cultural, economic or racial background...we’re excited to offer a $1,000 scholarship to those in need. The scholarship will be offered twice every year with application deadlines on May 31st, and October 31st."

Carroll College offers the Sygmatechnology Scholarship for Minority Students for $1,000 to an "underrepresented minority majoring in a STEM-related subject or a high level of interest in the STEM field."

On April 14, 2021, Carroll held a panel on "racial inequalities in healthcare, alongside other racial disparities and injustices in the United States, especially in relation to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our society."

On February 1, 2023, the college's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force held a panel conversation event titled "Why DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)?" for the campus community.

Associate Professor of English Soumitree Gupta's research interests include "postcolonial studies, transnational cultural studies, diaspora studies, comparative race and ethnic studies, and transnational gender studies." Professor Gupta states, "'As a feminist scholar committed to social justice, I seek to foster a collective learning environment where my students are able to make critical connections among power, ideology, representation and students’ own embodied social identities along the intersecting axes of gender, race, class, nation, (dis)ability, and so on'."

On June 2, 2020, Carroll released a statement saying, "In recent days I, like many of you, have been grieved by George Floyd's death in Minneapolis on May 25th. The pain and the anger unleashed by this injustice has been unlike any I have witnessed in this country."

Carroll crafted a statement which says, "Carroll College acknowledges the reality of systemic, structural racism. Building a just, equitable, and fully welcoming community for all of our students, staff, and faculty entails ongoing vigilance and self-examination that seeks to recognize and counteract the harm of systemic biases, conscious and unconscious."