North Carolina State University

"The training, 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Students,' aims to equip 'learners with the information and skills necessary to create a respectful and welcoming environment for everyone.' According to the university website, key topics in the training include 'identity, selfhood, imposter syndrome, identity transitions, power, privilege, oppression, bias, respect, allyship and self-care.'"

The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity offers Advocacy Opportunities and trainings, such as "Equity in the Center," a training that "works to shift mindsets, practices and systems in the social sector to center race equity and build a Race Equity Culture. Their services include convenings, working sessions, coaching and partner trainings designed to shift mindsets, practices and systems in the social sector to increase race equity and build a Race Equity Culture."

The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity at NC State outlines its 2022-2026 "Four-Year Implementation Plan" which states that it would "review and update how DEIB [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging] is incorporated into training and professional development opportunities throughout the university."

The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity 2021-2022 Annual Report states that "the Equal Opportunity and Equity unit provided search committee training to over 800 search committee members throughout the year for searches involving faculty, staff, and senior administrators."

The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity at NC State published its "Cultural Competence Toolkit" and states, "Being culturally competent is a continual process that involves an ongoing critical examination of one’s attitudes, awareness, knowledge and skills in order to negotiate cross-cultural differences to complete tasks and/or create positive living, learning and working environments." The toolkit is meant to be used by all members of the NC State community.

The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity at NC State published a comprehensive list of its trainings for faculty and staff.

The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity at NC State published a list of its trainings for students which includes "Unconscious Bias" and "Restorative Circles" trainings.

Teachers College will train teaching degree candidates to incorporate anti-racist literature and tailor their language to become effect anti-racists.

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology offers a "Race, Racism and Anti-Racism" specialization. The description reads, "Increasing public attention to race, racism, and anti-racism due to the growth in Black mobilization and nativist policies and practices give this area added real-world applications."

On May 11, 2022, NC State's Humanities and Social Sciences News reported on the English Department's "Anti-Racist Pedagogy Initiative" which, according to English Professor Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, is a "major curriculum transformation project.” As part of the initiative, the department "Asked applicants to share with other faculty newly emerging and already executed teaching lessons they were using to promote anti-racism or address issues of systemic racism, white privilege and white supremacy."

NC State's Bias Impact Report Form allows members of the community to report acts of bias and discrimination and the Bias Impact Response Team has outlined its bias reporting procedures with a "process diagram."

According to NC State's Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity, a "DEI professional development requirement is now part of NC State’s annual EHRA [Exempt from the Human Resources Act] and SHRA [State Human Resources Act] performance evaluation forms."

The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity's Faculty Fellows Program "serves to recognize and cultivate the instrumental relationships that faculty members have with students and the university community, a relationship that has the ability to further foster a sense of belonging and cultivate inclusive environments at NC State University."

On May 11, 2022, NC State's Humanities and Social Sciences News reported on the English Department's "Anti-Racist Pedagogy Initiative" which, according to English Professor Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, is a "major curriculum transformation project.” Included as part of the initiative, the department; "Made $20,000 available for faculty to infuse DEI in courses," "Invited faculty to apply for $1,000 teaching awards to support scholarship that directly promotes anti-racist pedagogical strategies in the classroom" and "Distributed teaching grants to 21 faculty members in six areas of the department, including creative writing, film, journalism, literature, rhetoric and professional writing, and teacher education."

The library and Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity released "DIY/DEI: Antiracism" resources, including Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist."

The university has an "Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity."

On April 29, 2019, NC State College of Education News published an articled titled "Using Critical Race Theory Research to Inform and Improve Instruction" which discusses how Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, Professor of Educational Psychology, and her colleagues, "bring together researchers from across the disciplines to synthesize different methods of Critical Race Theory research to demonstrate how to make scholarship efforts more significant in improving issues of educational equity and access in schools."

Goal four of the University's 2021-2030 Strategic Plan states, "We believe that institutionalized inequality, including racism, is unacceptable in our nation and state, and on campus" and "we commit to creating sustainable systemic change across the university that improves our campus culture and empowers NC State to be a truly inclusive, welcoming and supportive environment for all."

The University Diversity Advisory Committee is "charged" with advocating for the "recruitment and representation of diverse students, faculty and staff and encourage diversity initiatives that enhance retention, advancement and engagement of diverse people throughout the university."

The University's College of Education News posted an article titled "Becoming Anti-Racist ELA Teachers" which outlines five steps that middle and high school English Language Arts teachers can follow to become "anti-racist educators." Furthermore, the article stated the following on the topic: "With a rising global movement to end racial injustice, the need to affirm, celebrate and advocate for Black students in our classrooms has become even more important. Teaching for an anti-racist future starts with educators, whether they come from a school that has a predominately White population or one that is diverse, including Black and other historically marginalized populations."

The Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life published a January 2022 report titled "Critical Social Justice in the UNC System," which discusses how many UNC system schools "promote CSJ policies under the seemingly innocuous rubric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)." According to the report NCSU implements DEI programming in the following ways: "NCSU is committed to Critical Social Justice. It has at least 18 upper-level administrators dedicated to implementing its DEI mission. Nearly every college has an assistant dean, director, or advisor for diversity initiatives. Additional programming actually makes its raw DEI budget larger than UNC-CH’s. All of its DEI training for faculty, staff, and students is still optional, though the NCSU president has pledged to make such training mandatory soon. Three credit hours of the general education curriculum are dedicated to diversity, and DEI is sown into residence life through LLCs."

Some students in the Spring 2021 "Interpretation in Historic Sites" graduate class "developed a campus tour dedicated to the complicated legacies of different figures preserved into the landscape of N.C. State University. The tour developed into an examination of white supremacy, and how it has affected our campus."