Georgia College and State University

GCSU's Diversity Action Plan states that it "specifically targets enrollment, retention and graduation strategies that will assist Georgia College in attracting and retaining underrepresented populations as well as assisting in degree completion."

The University's Diversity Action Plan for Georgia College 2022 - 2025 seeks to innovate "recruitment and retention efforts, to increase the overall underrepresented student (first year through graduation) population at Georgia College to by 25% in three years." One action will be to request permanent funding to purchase "names of students from databases outside of Georgia."

The college states that, "The Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE) Division of Education Outreach and Training provides diversity and equity training for departments, offices, colleges and student organizations."

The college stated that it is "beginning to implement a community-based engaged learning initiative that will include cultural competence in service learning.

On June 10, 2020, the college announced that in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others, the college would be holding extended diversity workshops, listening sessions, and diversity training programs for students, faculty, and staff.

Through the Office of Inclusive Excellence, Diversity Peer Educators (groups of students, faculty and staff) are "trained to provide targeted education to their peer groups regarding issues of diversity and inclusion on campus" and "make presentations in response to specific training requests from their peers and host open educational session on specific diversity issues for faculty, staff and students."

The Office of Inclusive Excellence at GCSU provides "diversity and equity training for departments, offices, colleges and student organizations" on such topics as microaggressions and unconscious bias.

The Office of Inclusive Excellence initiative "Diversity 360," is a "campus-wide diversity education program for students, faculty, and staff."

GCSU's Diversity Action Plan states (under curriculum) that it "seeks strategies that focus on the learning experiences of Georgia College students that promote diversity competence in curricular activities."

The GCSU Office of the Provost offers an "Inclusive Excellence Research Grant" to fund faculty conducting research on topics regarding inclusive excellence.

GCSU's Diversity Action Plan states, "Other goals include faculty, staff, student scholarship, professional development and research on diversity and inclusion."

The Multicultural Student Leadership Conference (MSLC) is a program primarily designed for "African American, Latino/Latina, and other underrepresented" high school students to experience college life at GCSU. Students will learn leadership skills and have the opportunity to interact with current students.

The college has an Office of Inclusive Excellence which offers inclusive excellence resources.

The college created a Diversity Action Planning Committee. This committee stated that the school will engage in "the charging of a representative Diversity Action Planning Committee to create the Diversity Action Plan."

The college offers Minority Support Programs.

The GCSU Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Liberal Studies offers a Race and Social Justice Concentration for the Liberal Studies B.A.

Partnering with the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the college is participating in an equity-gap initiative "to level the playing field for historically-underrepresented students in education."

On June 10, 2020, the college announced that it created a video tribute to "those who have died as a result of racial violence" in addition to committing to creating "a public art piece or a curated art exhibit focused on social justice."