Gallaudet University

Gallaudet has announced that it will create bias training for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and administrators by May 2021.

Gallaudet offers “Unpacking Bias and Anti-Oppression Training” as part of a certificate program for both undergraduate and graduate students.

The primary and secondary education center is creating an anti-racist Equity Plan.

Gallaudet University offers several courses and programs in critical theory, critical race theory, marxism, etc. For instance, the course "Introduction to Cultural Studies" investigates how culture shapes the way people see the world. Students will engage with critical theories, including marxism, feminism, postcolonialism and critical race theory as a means of understanding the intersectionalities of deaf lives.

Gallaudet has added the position of Chief Diversity Officer, which will collaborate on a program to reimagine the university's Department of Public Safety.

Gallaudet’s Student Affairs hosts the Multicultural Student Programs which “provides resources and spaces for students of color, LGBTQ+ students, first generation students, and other students from marginalized and underserved backgrounds.”

An update was provided regarding "Anti-Racism Progress" in Aprill 2021.

In December 2022, Gallaudet will be starting a program to hire "BIPOC DDBDDHH vendors, contractors, and suppliers."

Gallaudet’s Division of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Excellence offers “resources, training, EDI coaching and advising that allows our stakeholders to develop stronger intercultural and anti-oppression competency and a sense of shared accountability.”

Gallaudet’s Department of Communications and Community Engagement is home to “Inclusive Excellence Ambassadors and Inclusive Excellence Student Ambassador programs” and other similar initiatives.

Gallaudet’s Intercultural Alliances program “is committed to supporting people in their journey of discovery of their participation (passive and active) in systems of oppression with the aim of creating a more equitable, accessible, and welcoming environment for members of marginalized communities.”

Gallaudet’s Turn-a-Page-Together program allows students, faculty, staff, and alumni to collectively “engage in courageous, sustained and transformational intergroup dialogues about books pertaining to culture and diversity.”

Gallaudet set a goal to “establish the University-wide Social Justice & Racial Equity Collaborative (SJREC) by fall 2021” and “have the University-wide Social Justice & Racial Equity Collaborative (SJREC) charter in place by winter 2022.”

Gallaudet made a goal to “construct and make public a University-wide Anti-Racism policy with calls to action and sanctions by the end of FY 2021.”

Gallaudet is home to the Student of Color Safe Space, which functions to “provide targeted and direct support for students of color; provide a safe space for students of color to chill, study and decompress; and form collaborative relationships with two critical campus departments and units– Student Success and Academic Quality, and Campus Activities — to provide direct support to students of color.”