- Mailing Address
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555 N Sheridan Rd
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 - Phone
- (847) 234-3100
- Email address
- admissions@lakeforest.edu
- Website
- https://www.lakeforest.edu/
- School Information
- "Lake Forest College, located by Lake Michigan on Chicago’s North Shore, provides access to an outstanding education that gives students a big edge on jobs after graduation. "Our flexible curriculum supports double-majors and minors, and students are also offered unparalleled internships in Chicago, great lab research experience, championship athletics, and study-abroad opportunities. Our outcomes are hard to match: well above 90 percent of our graduates have jobs, were in graduate school, or pursued other chosen opportunities within six months of graduation." The college enrolls over 1,500 students, has a student-faculty ratio of 12:1, and offers 32 majors. (Source: https://www.lakeforest.edu/about-us) (Source: https://www.lakeforest.edu/about-us/facts-and-figures)
- General Information
- The college has launched its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative which includes a mandatory training for students in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), an expanded DEI library collection, and grants to incorporate diversity into the curricula. See developments below:
Actions Taken
- Admissions Policies
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In addition to the "Choose Antiracism" campaign, students themselves provided video responses to the faculty videos.
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- Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training
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Faculty committed to a three-year long series titled, "three years of a series entitled "Diversity and Inclusiveness in Teaching" a monthly, hour-long program.
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Students are now required to take a "mandatory Ever-Fi course on diversity, equity, and inclusion."
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- Resources
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"The Library has expanded DEI book collection based on recommendations by the OIR."
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College sponsored a series titled "Choose Antiracism", "a digital library of short educational videos created by College faculty and staff that reflects on each of the chapters from Dr. Ibram Kendi’s work".
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