Mississippi University for Women

MUW states that it would "engage in recruiting a diverse student body for its undergraduate and graduate programs."

The MUW library offers an "Anti-Racism Student Workshop."

The MUW library offered "Training Against Microaggressions" in Winter 2020 for staff.

MUW offers Diversity Training upon request for student organizations.

The MUW Alumni Association Board will "provide formal DEI education to the MUWAA Board and Committee Chairs."

MUW states that it would "[d]evelop central diversity, equity and inclusion education and training resources for faculty, staff, and students designed to develop skills and behaviors that ultimately will enhance our campus climate."

MUW states that it would "[i]mplement inclusive recruiting and search committee training to facilitate an increase in diversity among faculty and staff."

One of MUW's goals is to "[c]apture, promote, and enhance overall curriculum and programming that enhances multicultural awareness and understanding."

On February 6. 2023, MUW News announced that the Department of Sciences and Mathematics received the "Mississippi University for Women’s 2022-23 Impact Initiative Award" which included $1,000 towards its initiative to "enhance diversity, promote cultural diversity and cultivate an inclusive campus community."

MUW's library offers numerous resources for "inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility." Its list for anti-racism includes Ibram X. Kendi's book, "How to Be an Anti-Racist."

The MUW library offers an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Book Club.

MUW stated that, "The Council for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion will be sponsoring a number of events and activities for The W Community."

MUW offers definitions for diversity, equity, and inclusion respectively.

MUW encourages faculty to utilize diversity material in their classes, stating, "The Kossen Center for Teaching & Learning encourages all MUW faculty to address diversity and inclusion in their classrooms and in the wider campus community." MUW offers resources to faculty for "General Inclusion," "Syllabus Design," "Managing Difficult Conversations in the Classroom," and "Diverse Faculty."

The MUWAA will "execute a review ensuring inclusive language within all of our policies and procedures and all scholarship, award, or officer nomination forms and applications."

The MUW President released a statement on November 3, 2020, stating, "At a time when there is so much division in our world, our W Community is coming together to participate in our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council’s Unity project. I’d like to encourage all of our students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members to take part in this project."

MUW's Poetry South journal stated, "Last summer, following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery that sparked national protests, along with the killing by police of Ricky Ball in our hometown of Columbus, Mississippi, and most recently the shooting of Rayshard Brooks, we were left wondering what we could do. Though a conviction was made for the murder of George Floyd, other killings by police, as well as mass shootings leave us with the same concerns." The journal also identified itself as inclusive.

MUW has a Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which offers an annual "Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award."

MUW's Council for DEI offers a University Impact Award which is awarded "for any department/division, administrative unit, or officially recognized organization at The W which best exemplifies excellence through efforts to enhance diversity, promote cultural diversity and cultivate an inclusive campus community in teaching, service or leadership."

On June 1, 2020, the MUW president announced, "The events of the past few days have added a whole new layer of turmoil to our present state of pandemic. Racism, injustice and violence have infected our society in a way much worse than any virus can."

On February 24. 2022. the Faculty Senate adopted the "Resolution of the Mississippi University for Women Faculty Senate defending academic freedom to instruct in the classroom concerning matters of race, gender, and critical race theory." The Resolution was adopted in response to Mississippi legislative proposals that "threaten academic freedom and target academic discussions of race, gender, critical race theory and related issues in American history throughout Mississippi’s K-12 schools, colleges and universities."

MUW's Office of the President issued an anti-racism statement titled "We Stand Together," which reads in part as follows: "We stand together intending to leverage the full weight of our positions and power to root out anti-Black policies and procedures. We stand together to provide equitable pathways to higher education in which diversity and inclusion is not only celebrated, but integral to the success of every student in every discipline. We stand together declining the antiquated call to lead institutions that are merely 'not racist;' instead, we aim to be 'anti-racist' and enhance our support of underrepresented faculty, staff, and students. For those of us born with privilege, we stand together to correct the inequities that benefit us at the expense of others."