Sacramento State University

CSUS' Black Success Initiative is "committed to addressing the decline in Black student enrollment and retention" and has "develop[ed] [a] comprehensive enrollment strategy for black students" in order to increase enrollment.

The Anthropology Department will be "Addressing implicit bias."

Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan recommends that the university, "Provide racial bias training for faculty, staff, and students."

The Division of Inclusive Excellence provides faculty diversity training for its search committees and states, "This hybrid...training is designed to inform and support the designated AA/EOR (Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Representative) in each department faculty search committee to fulfill their role in promoting the university’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in faculty recruitment."

Search Equity Advocates are "faculty who are equity-minded, culturally-responsive, and have gone through extensive training regarding implementing inclusive search and equitable hiring practices."

University president launched seven committees to focus on anti-racist work, with two focusing on “anti-racist learning and literacy” and “Anti-racism curriculum pedagogy and assessment”.

The Anthropology Department will be "Building anti-racist syllabi and equitable pedagogy - In all of our classes, we will decenter White voices while elevating the contributions of BIPOC scholars across the four fields of anthropology and cultivating a critical understanding of the Eurocentric conditions through which these contributions have been overlooked or minimized. In addition to these systemic curricular efforts, we are developing a four-field course on the Anthropology of Race and Racism."

Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan recommends that the university, "Add a 'multicultural lens' to curriculum development, and create a committee to review courses to ensure they reflect diversity and eliminate bias."

Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan recommends that the university, "Improve reporting and response to alleged incidents of racism and bias."

CSUS has "developed the Bias Reporting Tool " which will "allow us to capture experiences of bias that do not fall within the jurisdiction of other offices but deserve to be acknowledged, affirmed, and addressed in a systematic manner."

The university is recruiting for "Tenure-track faculty - Anti-Racist Leadership in Education" with the rank of "Assistant/Associate Professor".

The university's Center On Race, Immigration & Social Justice "addresses social and educational inequities facing the university and larger community. It seeks to transform the educational culture to an exciting and empowering one that reflects the strengths and needs of our local and diversified communities."

Convocation will focus on anti-racism and social justice, with one of the speakers being Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi.

The Anthropology Department will open spaces for "dialogue on critical issues affecting our students and campus community. This includes an anti-racism themed 'brown bag’ series of talks in our department, where faculty, students, and community members can share their research and experiences, grapple with difficult ethical questions and collaboratively build an understanding of anthropological approaches to race and the insidiousness of racism across global contexts" as well as "Creating brave spaces in our classes, offices, and hallways."

The Anthropology Department will be "upholding a Vision Statement for our department that commits to anti-racist action" and "Forming a committee on anti-racism."

The Information Resources and Technology division will "Adopt and advance diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism as a means to flourish individually, excel professionally, and advance knowledge in information technology."

The university's library offers "Anti-Racist Resources for Fine and Performing Arts," which include "Being Antiracist" and "In Praise of Discomfort: An Open Letter to White Educators."

Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan recommends that the university create more physical spaces that "encourage 'positive interactions among the diverse faculty and staff, students and community members.'"

Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan recommends that the university, "Create an Antiracism and Inclusion Team to reach out to and build bridges among various groups and disciplines across campus."

On February 14, 2022, Sac State hosted a daylong virtual antiracism and inclusion convocation titled "A CALL TO ACTION: Eradicate, Resolve, and Liberate". The keynote speaker was University of Georgia professor and activist Bettina Love, and the convocation focused on how to implement Sac State’s "sweeping Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan", which will be rolled out over the next five years.

Sac State highlighted an alum, Phillip Altstatt, who hosts a "Beyond J podcast" with an episode titled "I'm a Recovering Racist." The episode's title was inspired by Sacramento Poet Laureate Andru Defeye's declaration at Sac State's Antiracism and Inclusion Convocation that he was a "recovering racist". This podcast episode discusses "prejudice and racism, systemic power and control, privilege, and equity."

On March 28th, 2023, the university will host the Sac State AICP Spring Symposium. The symposium aims to increase "antiracism, anti-oppression, and inclusivity" in the Sac State campus community and the goal is to "embed successful practices to counter bias and discrimination into all levels of the institution".

Sac State has an Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan Implementation Advisory Council (AICP Advisory Council). Its chair is the VP for Inclusive Excellence.

The university is holding its 30th Annual Multicultural Education Conference between April 5-6 of 2024 which "aspires to address the power of multiple narratives, fugitive pedagogies, and educational resistance against a dominant White ideology." Additionally, several presenters at the conference specialize in Critical Race Theory.

The Leading With Justice Speaker Series at CSUS is a webinar series which features "award-winning scholars whose work on racial justice and community-based research has shape-shifted the ways we think about learning, teaching, and theories of social change." 

Sacramento State published its 2022-2023 Antiracism and Inclusion Action Plan which is a follow up to the university's 2021 Antiracism and Inclusive Campus plan.

On March 25, 2024, CSUS is holding an event titled "Advancing the AICP Antiracism and Inclusion in Action" which "will allow our campus to share and promote high-impact practices and demonstrate our progress and continued commitment to becoming an antiracism and inclusive campus."

The Division of Inclusive Excellence has a webpage dedicated to "Addressing Antisemitism at Sac State" which states that its "Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Action Plan, calls out explicitly our goal and commitment to address antisemitism as one form of hate and othering."

Students who complete the General Education requirements are "expected to possess a significant and useful understanding of peoples from a diversity of cultures and backgrounds, including women and ethnic and other minority groups who have been the objects of prejudice and adverse discrimination within our society."

The university will have an "anti-racism and inclusion convocation," which will focus on "Unlearning racism, and new learning of anti-racism traditions and ways of being" (among other subjects), according to the State Hornet newspaper.

On October 25, 2022, a section of Sacramento State’s Santa Clara Hall was painted by eight muralists with images evoking the University’s Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan (AICP). This project is part of a multi-year partnership with Wide Open Walls (WOW), Sacramento’s annual citywide mural festival. The focus of the murals for year one is “Believing,” with upcoming years’ art pieces focusing on “Becoming” and “Being.”