- Mailing Address
-
275 Mt Carmel Ave
Hamden, Connecticut 06518 - Phone
- (203) 582-8200
- Email address
- admissions@qu.edu
- Website
- https://www.qu.edu/
- School Information
- "Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational university in Southern New England where students engage in an educational experience that’s both personal and challenging from faculty who care deeply about student outcomes. Our 3 campuses are located in Hamden and North Haven, Connecticut. We offer more than 100 programs to approximately 7,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students." (Source: https://www.qu.edu/about-quinnipiac.html)
- General Information
- Quinnipiac University is undertaking a review of its curriculum to "increase learning about the roots and contemporary manifestations of social injustice, privilege, oppression and the drivers of social change." The curriculum review has not yet been completed nor have substantive changes been released. No mandatory Critical Race Training sessions are yet required of students. However, see developments below:
Actions Taken
- Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training
-
-
In February 2022, the Department of Cultural and Global Engagement created an Inclusive Conversation series to "explor[e] the power of anti-racism."
-
Students can acquire a "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Certificate" by taking a number if DEI courses offered by the school. The primary focus of this certificate is to learn about "communities who have historically been underrepresented, marginalized or underprivileged based on socially constructed characteristics and structures of power."
-
- Curriculum Changes and Requirements
-
-
Curricular review will seek to “increase learning about the roots and contemporary manifestations of social injustice, privilege, oppression and the drivers of social change.”
-
In the summer of 2020, the university announced its 10 step plan of “Actions to Advance Racial Justice.” This plan includes a curriculum review and student and faculty training.
-
- Resources
-
-
On January 19, 2023, Quinnipiac University launched a new education course (ED 252 Anti-racism and Anti-bias through the Lens of Empathy: Broadening Perspectives Through Literature Written for Children and Young Adults) that promotes anti-racism principles through literacy. Participants will study literature "through the lens of empathy while also considering identity, diversity, justice and action".
-
The Inclusive Excellence Teaching Lab (IETL) is a partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Center for Research and Scholarship, and faculty from across the university who have "demonstrated their commitment to, and interest in, issues of equity, diversity and inclusion within their curricular and co-curricular approaches."
-
On December 20, 2020, Campus Reform wrote an article about how Quinnipiac was going to launch a new course called "Landscapes and Lenses" in Spring 2021, which discusses racism and bias in the theater. The professor's goal is to make "theater an inclusive place without bias and without exclusionary practices."
-
The School of Education's new course "ED 252 Anti-racism and Anti-bias through the Lens of Empathy: Broadening Perspectives Through Literature Written for Children and Young Adults" will help future teachers learn how to be more empathetic before entering the classroom. One of the directors of the education program also stated, “Our School of Education has a social justice mission.”
-
- Symbolic Actions
-
-
In Spring 2022, the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion hosted three networking sessions for new underrepresented minority (URM) hires to build a sense of belonging at QU. Additionally, the annual Indigeneity Teach-In was held November 9, 2021 and co-sponsored by the Albert Schweitzer Institute and the Indigenous Student Union.
-