Slippery Rock University

The Office for Inclusive Excellence provides workshops to students.

The President's Commission for Race and Ethnic Diversity plans to "develop programs to educate allies to help understand how systems of oppression, privilege, and power are maintained" and "promote activities that demonstrate the university’s commitment to racial and ethnic diversity and inclusion."

The President's Commission for Race and Ethnic Diversity will "recommend training programs to enable faculty and staff to function in a diverse society."

On January 25, 2023, the Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging's Chief Diversity Officer led a workshop that would "help participants conduct a self-exploration of their own biases, where they come from, and how they are projected onto others." The Office regularly "[provides] trainings to various departments and organizations across campus."

The President's Commission for Race and Ethnic Diversity will also "recommend curriculum changes to enable students to function in a diverse society."

Beginning in fall 2022, all undergraduate students will need to complete a three-credit DEI course thorugh the Rock Integrated Studies Program. Upon completion of DEI training for faculty, they will receive $1,000 for professional uses.

A student was withdrawn from SRU due to "hateful and intolerant speech" in 2020.

All employees and student workers are required to undergo DEI training.

The Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at SRU "fulfills funding requests for diversity related events and/or projects that directly relate to the our Mission Statement and would benefit the SRU campus climate."

In 2020, the president made a commitment that, "PCRED will work directly with our University Police to collaboratively review policies that may disproportionately discriminate against Students of Color."

SRU provides anti-racism and social justice resources which includes Ibram X. Kendi's book, "How to Be an Anti-Racist."

The Office for Inclusive Excellence also provides mentoring and programs to support diverse students.

The Black Faculty and Staff Association aims to " provide leadership, educational programs, and resources that enrich the SRU community perspective of diversity, as well as, make evidence-based recommendations to SRU administration that voice and advance issues affecting African American administrators, faculty, staff, and students."

The Gender and Diversity Studies program "analyzes how privilege, power and oppression are produced, challenged and changed at both micro- and macrocosmic levels."

On July 21, 2020, SRU appointed Terrence Mitchell as the president's special assistant for diversity and inclusion.

In 2021, SRU hosted a Diversity Management Speaker Series which brought in speakers to discuss critical race theory, among other subjects.

SRU named Anthony Jones as new chief diversity officer in October 2021.

On February 14, 2023, as part of SRU's Black History Month programming, the History Department hosted "The Truth About Critical Race Theory," which featured "an academic panel discussing critical race theory in history, education, and politics today."

On February 3, 2021, SRU joined the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education in order to advance the university's goals towards inclusive excellence.