East Carolina University

The Assistant Director of Outreach and Relations "heads our diversity recruitment efforts."

In Spring 2023, ECU issued the following directives in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action: "An applicant’s race or ethnicity shall not be considered in an admissions decisions process or any other selection process that awards a material benefit (e.g., scholarships)"; "Admissions processes must not be designed to achieve racial or ethnic diversity."

The UNC System Racial Equity Task force recommends that member institutions "establish comprehensive programming for all students, faculty, and staff of the UNC System, and provide mandatory training for those individuals charged with ensuring compliance with diversity and inclusion standards, including institutional leadership, department chairs, division leaders, and others who serve in a supervisory role." East Carolina has yet to announce training programs complying with this recommendation.

As part of ECU's General Education program, "[s]tudents must also satisfy domestic diversity (DD) and global diversity (GD) competencies." Courses in the "humanities, fine arts, and social sciences will satisfy these requirements."

ECU's Department of Biology announced that it received an award from the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program in order to "better recruit and support undergraduate students from underrepresented populations in STEM disciplines such as biology."

The Office of Faculty Excellence offers several voluntary resources for including diversity and equity in course curricula.

The Office for Equity and Diversity suggest a series of best practices in recruiting diverse faculty and staff.

The Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life published a January 2022 report titled "Critical Social Justice in the UNC System," which discusses how many UNC system schools "promote CSJ policies under the seemingly innocuous rubric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)." According to the report, ECU implements DEI policies in the following ways: "ECU aims to serve a global society through its emphasis on DEI and diversify its faculty, staff, and students. While it has four university-level administrators dedicated to DEI, only its Brody School of Medicine (which has five administrators, including three making six figures) has built a sophisticated staff to promote DEI at the college level. The Brody School actually appears to spend more than the university level on DEI salaries! Other colleges have committees dedicated to promoting DEI. Implicit bias and safe zone training are still optional. No courses dedicated to CSJ are required in the general education curriculum, though the student experience is shaped through LLCs and events that focus almost exclusively on the CSJ agenda."

ECU states that "multicultural experiences...will be interwoven into both your academic programs and extracurricular activities" and that "[u]nderstanding and embracing diversity are key elements to success in your ECU education."

On February 1, 2024, the School of Social Work hosted a virtual event titled "We Need New Theories To Dismantle Racism: How BOP Theory Answers That Call."

The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences created the "Council on Anti-Racism and Equity."

In April 2022, the university launched the "ERASISM project- Exploring Racism And Systemic Inequities through Students’ Memories."

The ECU Library provides anti-racist resources and states, "As white people, we would like to acknowledge that despite good intentions and our support of the dismantling of systemic racism and oppressive forces, our efforts to conduct or support the research listed above and gathering the resources presented in this guide may risk being patronizing, imperialist, or recolonizing based on the viewpoints we were raised with and as white academics with master's degrees."