Nazareth College

The Office for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Education provides DEI-related "educational opportunities and experiences to ensure that Nazareth students, faculty, and staff possess the knowledge and skills necessary for living and advocating toward working effectively as members of a global, interconnected society."

As part of the College’s restorative justice process, the bias reporting and response process holds people “accountable to recognize harm that’s been done and to take responsibility for harming others, and the community has a chance for healing and rebuilding trust.”

Over the Winter in 2021, the college explained its reasons for creating an "Anti-Racist Campus."

In December 2021, students protested "over concerns about racism and a lack of diversity on campus."

The college hosted Dr. Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J. to discuss "The Spiritual Work of Anti-Racism: An Ignatian Way of Discerning Justice For Everyone" at a speaker event.

The Center for Civic Engagement sponsored an introductory discussion to antiracist policies.

The Office of Culture, Community, and Belonging provides "Advocacy and Political Engagement" resources and states the following: "As engaged citizens, it is important to seek out knowledge about pressing social issues. It is equally important that we understand the ways we can take action to affect positive change."

As part of its diversity, equity, and inclusion work, Nazareth College offered a week-long Civil Rights Journey for students, faculty and staff in January 2022.

The College is hosting a year-long dialogue series starting Fall 2023 on belonging, inclusion, diversity, and equity that is sponsored by the Office of Culture, Community, and Belonging.

The College will be hosting the 2024 Global Citizenship Conference on March 20, 2024 to cover Interfaith, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The DE&I and Interfaith Studies minor at Nazareth will "develop Nazareth students’ understanding, attitudes, and skills regarding contemporary issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and interfaith relations." Additionally, "students will learn to identify and analyze areas of social injustice, challenge attitudes and systems of inequity, build meaningful and productive connections across lines of difference, and take action for positive social change."

Nazareth College students will now be able to partner with a nonprofit to learn more about social and racial justice workshops, which include courses like "Introduction to Anti-racism Practice" and "What to Black Women is the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment?"

The college is hosting "Solidarity and Social Justice Retreats."

The college has provided students and faculty with a repository of universal DEI resources.

Each semester four Equitable Spaces (EQS) courses are offered that address anti-racism, social justice, privilege, power, equity, and inclusivity.

Although an anti-racism course offered at Nazareth College made a student feel “out of his comfort zone,” he created an anti-racism project for his final presentation and now considers himself an “anti-racist” and sees himself as a “rowdy changemaker” that will advocate for racial justice.

Through the course offerings and opportunities, Nazareth College equips students to become “effective changemakers” and “equity-minded leaders.” The College highlights its students’ social justice and equity advocacy efforts.

The Culture, Community, and Belonging area at Nazareth College has multiple offices that collaborate to “confronting inherent privilege, power, and marginalization to achieve equity, social justice, and belonging for all — across a continuum of visible and invisible differences.”

The College has a Diversity Council that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion across the school and is composed of representatives from each of the many diversity clubs on campus.

The Nazareth College Department of Social Work Student Handbook has a departmental statement on Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, highlighting its commitment towards anti-racist practices and challenging systems of oppression.

The Hickey Center at Nazareth College "promote[s] understanding and appreciating differences of social justice issues through education and dialogue in an increasingly global landscape."

Nazareth College was awarded the 2023-2024 Equity and Inclusion College of Distinction award from Best Colleges.