- Mailing Address
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1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, California 90045 - Phone
- (310) 338-2700
- Email address
- registrar@lmu.edu
- Website
- https://www.lmu.edu/
- School Information
- “Founded in 1911, LMU is a top-ranked national university rooted in the Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount traditions. We are committed to fostering a diverse academic community rich in opportunity for intellectual engagement and real-world experience. We enroll an academically ambitious, multicultural, and socioeconomically diverse student body. We recruit, retain and support a diverse faculty committed to excellence in teaching, research, scholarship and creativity. Our three campuses are rooted in the heart of Los Angeles, a global capital for arts and entertainment, innovation and technology, business and entrepreneurship” (Source: https://www.lmu.edu/about/). LMU offers 55 majors and 58 minors, with a student to faculty ratio of 11 to 1 and a total enrollment of over 10,000 (Source: https://www.lmu.edu/about/factsfiguresrankings/).
- General Information
- Loyola Marymount University has engaged in several anti-racist and DEI efforts. This includes establishing the Anti-Racism Project. LMU also has programs such as the Intercultural Facilitator Program and the Together as Effective Accomplish Mobilizing Program. Furthermore, an implicit bias workshop is offered. See developments below:
Actions Taken
- Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training
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Loyola Marymount University has a program known as the Intercultural Facilitator Program which has a goal to “develop a group of students, highly skilled in principles of facilitation, to effectively facilitate other students in critical cultural conversations.”
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Loyola Marymount University has a student organization known as Together as Effective Accomplish Mobilizing (TEAM) which “provides a space for white people to critically engage in our four main objectives: utilizing our educational tools to analyze one’s own privilege in order to understand how systematic oppression is currently being enacted in everyday life, providing training on how to be effective accomplices to minoritized communities, engaging in coalition building throughout the LMU and Los Angeles community, and providing a safe space for self-care and team building.”
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LMU’s Center for Urban Resilience Restorative Justice Project “offers culturally grounded ways to address conflict through restorative practices trainings, Restorative Conferencing facilitation services, and opportunities to collaborate.” The project also provides staff training and handles violations to the Student Conduct Code in partnership with LMU Restore.
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LMU offers an implicit bias workshop.
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- Resources
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The school has an Anti-Racism Project which “invites and challenges members of the LMU community to engage in a collective commitment to anti-racism at multiple levels (e.g., institution-wide, unit-level, individual) and through different modalities (e.g., dialogue, workshops, reading, personal and communal reflection, prayer, examination of data, etc.)”
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