Florida State University

On June 4, 2021, FSU's President responded to each of the 26 recommendations from the "President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism" and stated the following: "FSU is committed to enhancing efforts to recruit undergraduate and graduate students from Underrepresented Minority populations. Expanding recruitment efforts targeting Title I schools is one way to help the university advance its goals. I direct the Office of Admissions to explore an expansion of the existing High School Partners Program, which is a collaborative effort between Admissions, Financial Aid, and CARE, including the possibility of increasing scholarship funding."

On February 26, 2019 FSU hosted a two-part training titled "Social Justice Ally Training." The mission of the training is to "educate members of the Florida State community about issues related to social justice in order to develop allies who will promote an equitable and inclusive environment and serve as social change agents in a diverse and global society."

On June 4, 2021, FSU's President responded to each of the 26 recommendations from the "President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism" and stated, "I support continuing to include equity, diversity and inclusion training as part of existing employee onboarding and new student orientation programming as a reflection of FSU’s core values."

Human Resources offers virtual training resources including "diversity and Inclusion in the workplace." Recommended training includes "How to Deconstruct Racism," "Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging for All," and the "Diversity Talks Podcast."

FSU's "2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin" outlines the school's undergraduate degree requirements which includes a "diversity" requirement for the Liberal Studies Major and is described as follows: "Students must complete at least one Cross-Cultural Studies (x) course and one Diversity in Western Experience (y) course. Both Diversity courses must be completed with a grade of "C–" or higher." Students completing these courses will be able to: Analyze some aspect of human experience within a culture, focusing on at least one source of diversity (e.g., age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, social class, or other)."

The University-Wide Core Curriculum requires all students to take two diversity classes that must be completed with a C- or higher.

FSU hosted a "Collaborative Collision: Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion" event, where more than 36 scholars shared their work and how it related to diversity and inclusion.

A team of university researchers "received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Award worth $3.1 million to investigate racial inequities in the nation’s health-care system." The university said, "The project maps out the impact of racism in primary care that leads to significant health disparities in prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of associated physical and mental health conditions and the resulting poor outcomes. The goal is to develop new organizational- and policy-level interventions meant to reduce and ultimately eliminate race-related health disparities and move away from focusing on intervention with individual health-care providers."

FSU's College of Social Sciences and Public Policy's Social Justice and Innovation Lab "provides a physical and virtual space for researchers to examine policies and help to make society more just and equitable for all."

FSU's Department of Religion has a Human Rights and Social Justice Major which "offers FSU undergraduates an educational experience that will prepare them to work in a number of arenas related to human rights and social justice."

The University offers an annual "Diversity & Inclusion Mini-Grant Program." Grants are "accepted and reviewed" in all diversity-related areas, with special attention in 2023 on "enhancing the quality of teaching and learning about diversity," "creating a welcoming and inclusive work and learning environment," and "improving recruitment, retention, and graduation of students from historically underrepresented groups." Selected proposals are awarded up to $1,000.

The University was awarded a $12.8 million grant from the National Institute of Health which will "help to recruit six underrepresented minority researchers committed to promoting diversity and inclusion."

The University offers a "Black Alumni Scholarship Fund" to ensure "that financial resources are available for the direct support of Black students in their pursuit of academic excellence." Scholarships are awarded to "deserving" students several times a year.

The University has a Diversity and Inclusion Fund that "provides vital support for the enhancement of diversity and inclusion" at FSU.

The University offers the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship which provides "scholarship support with a preference to African American undergraduate students."

On June 4, 2021, FSU's President responded to each of the 26 recommendations from the "President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism" and stated, "The FSU Chief of Police and members of the FSU Police Department routinely meet with the Student Government Association and other campus leaders to engage in ongoing dialogue and relationship building."

FSU's spring semester welcome includes a "Social Change Symposium" featuring workshops and small group sessions focusing on "anti-racism, interfaith inclusion, anti-sexism, transgender inclusion, anti-heterosexism, anti-classism, anti-ableism and anti-xenophobia."

University has a list of Anti-Racism Resources, including "Resources for Kids" and "Terminology".

The university "collaborated with the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) to conduct the HEDS Diversity and Equity Campus Climate Survey."

FSU responded to the Governor's request by listing 57 courses, activities and programs of which "None have 'CRT' in their language, some programs do deal with DEI in colleges like law, engineering and nursing, while most of the courses address issues of race, gender, and class in different disciplines."

FSU's Center for Leadership and Social Change states the following regarding its Diversity Programs: "Our work is deeply rooted in the foundations of the former FSU Office of Minority Affairs and Center for Multicultural Affairs. Today, the center continues this work as a voice for equity and inclusion at Florida State University, through social justice programs focused on structural and systemic issues in our campus and broader communities."

On June 4, 2021, FSU's President outlined 26 recommendations from the "President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism" on the topics of recruitment, retention, diversity training, campus climate and historical legacy. In addition, the President responded to each individual recommendation with his decision on possible actions moving forward.

FSU's Office of Liberal Studies provides guidance for faculty who wish to design a "Diversity Course."

On March 11, 2023, the Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life published a report titled "Florida Universities: From Woke to Professionalism," which discusses the state of DEI programs/policies at FSU. The report summarizes this as follows: "Most of FSU’s activities remain at the university level, in student life, and in various centers around campus, while UF is infusing DEI more centrally into the university’s structures through transformative changes in the colleges. For FSU, DEI looks more like a luxury good driven partly by ad-hoc considerations like the killing of George Floyd."

In the University's 2023-2027 strategic plan objectives include "[improving] efforts to expand diversity" through developing "an academic, administrative and social culture that serves and represents Florida and a culture of open and tolerant civil discourse."

The University has a "Diversity and Inclusion Institute" which is an "executive project within the Student Government Association." The mission of the program is to" provide a space" for "students to fully understand the range of diversity and multiculturalism, including but not limited to ability, socio-economic, age, rural/urban, veterans, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, gender identity & expression, religion, and faith structures through workshops that are focused on awareness, discussion, and collaborative learning activities."  During the spring semester, the institute hosts weekly 2-hour sessions.

The Department of Art History has a Committee on Anti-Racism and Equity. The Department seeks "to promote diversity and inclusivity in all areas of the department’s academic life, including student, faculty, and staff recruitment." The Department seeks out "opportunities based on new horizons in studies with Indigenous peoples and research on globalization, colonialism, and world histories."

University president accepted the Anti-Racism task force's recommendation to remove the statue of Francis Eppes from open-air display.

The university was specifically recognized by the INSIGHT into Diversity Magazine "for its strategic plan, the President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion and the academic support provided to diverse students, resulting in successful graduation rates."

On June 4, 2021, FSU's President responded to each of the 26 recommendations from the "President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism" and stated, "I direct the university’s senior leadership team to engage and collaborate with scholars and subject-matter experts to draft language acknowledging the labor of enslaved and free African and African-descended people in the construction of Florida State University’s main campus."

The Department of Sociology has a "Diversity and Inclusion Statement," that states the department seeks to "Recruit and Retain a Diverse Community of Faculty and Staff" and "Provide an Inclusive Working Environment for All." It also states that the Department "includes diverse voices and perspectives in course curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels."

The Geography Department released a "DEI" statement that states the department "is dedicated to providing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment to all students, faculty, and staff" and that it "will build an inclusive atmosphere." The department also seeks to "develop diversity awareness and sensitivity among faculty, staff, and students."

The University was awarded the National Diversity Award, for its 9th consecutive year, from the Publisher of Insight into Diversity.

Following the Florida Board of Governors' approval of a "regulation in late January to fall in line with state law and prohibit spending on DEI," FSU "quietly dismantled its DEI office" through "changing title names and reclassifying positions of employees who were already working in DEI to give them different roles." According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the University confirmed that it shut down its Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Office.

The University has a Land Acknowledgement Statement that pays respect and recognizes that the "campuses are located on the ancestral and traditional homelands of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, the Apalachee, Seminole and Muscogee Nations, the ancient Calusa, Uzita and Tocobaga, and others."