Loyola Marymount University

As part of its 2021-2026 Strategic Plan, LMU will "[p]ursue fundraising opportunities for scholarships that support the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body" and "[set] clear expectations for success in student recruitment and retention for historically underrepresented and marginalized groups."

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.”

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.”

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.

LMU offers an implicit bias workshop.

The Implicit Bias Initiative at LMU was launched in 2016 in order to "help administrators, faculty, staff, and students achieve bias literacy" and to "achieve a change in cultural norms across all components of LMU’s environment, e. curricular and co-curricular programs, decision-making committees, hiring committees and task forces, classrooms, residence halls, athletic fields, and dining halls."

As part of its 2021-2026 Strategic Plan, LMU will "[r]eview and enhance professional development strategies that support and encourage inclusive pedagogies (for example, universal design for learning (UDL), anti-oppressive teaching and pedagogical practices, etc.)...."

As part of its Recruitment, Retention, and Inclusive Climate webpage, LMU states that it would "[e]nhance curriculum, pedagogy, scholarship and creative work, to involve students and faculty in the learning process and to prepare them to engage issues of diversity as concerned citizens of the world."

As part of its 2021-2026 Strategic Plan, LMU will "[r]eview and revise core curriculum and major/minor curricula to directly address racism and other forms of oppression and exclusion...."

LMU's Bias Incident Response Team "manages university-wide communication and response protocols for incidents where bias may be a factor." Additionally, LMU describes its bias incident reporting procedures.

The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and University Intercultural Council offers Inclusive Excellence Grants and Awards which aim to "identify and fund inclusive excellence capacity building, community healing practices and projects that help LMU achieve its mission by way of infusing diversity and interculturalism throughout the campus community."

As part of its 2021-2026 Strategic Plan, LMU will "[s]upport faculty research/creative work and faculty-student academic mentoring in areas related to anti-racism and DEI-oriented learning" and "[i]ncrease funding to support and develop curricular and co-curricular programs and initiatives that positively impact the...graduation of students from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups."

LMU lists and describes many of its programs that are dedicated to supporting "students from historically underrepresented backgrounds."

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.)”

In an April 2024 report titled “No Graduation Without Indoctrination: The DEI Course Mandate,” the organization Speech First “investigated 248 colleges and universities across each state” and found that “[more] than two-thirds include DEI academic requirements,” including Loyola Marymount. According to the report (pg. 19), Loyola's "Bad Catholics" course "delves into the writings of 'Queer,' 'Black,' and 'Latinx' theologians" and "[t]hrough the lens of queerness and critical theory, students engage with theology to understand religious belonging."

School of Education Faculty member Dolores Delgado's expertise lies in the following areas: "Critical Race Theories," "Anti-Racist and Social Justice Education," and "Decolonial and Feminist Methodologies."

The Academic Community of Excellence is a strategic initiative of the Office Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and "promotes inclusive excellence, educational access and success for historically underrepresented students." The program serves as a "pipeline to masters and doctoral programs."

LMU offers “Cultural Consciousness Conversations” for faculty, staff, and administrators to “share your perspective and learn from others on issues such as bias, microaggressions, immigration, sexual orientation and gender identity, and power/privilege.”

As part of its Recruitment, Retention, and Inclusive Climate webpage, LMU states that it "[acknowledges] the importance of retaining and graduating students from underrepresented groups and first generation college students."