- Mailing Address
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1160 Camino De Cruz Blanca
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 - Phone
- (505) 984-6000
- Website
- https://www.sjc.edu/
- School Information
- St. John’s College (SJC) is a community dedicated to liberal education. Such education seeks to free men and women from the tyrannies of unexamined opinions and inherited prejudices. It also endeavors to enable them to make intelligent, free choices concerning the ends and means of both public and private life. At St. John’s, freedom is pursued mainly through thoughtful conversation about great books of the Western tradition. The books that are at the heart of learning at St. John's stand among the original sources of our intellectual tradition. They are timeless and timely; they not only illuminate the persisting questions of human existence, but also have great relevance to contemporary problems. They change our minds, move our hearts, and touch our spirits.
- General Information
- St. John's College commissioned a task force to research the status of diversity and inclusion on campus. It found lower rates of satisfaction from BIPOC students than white students. It also found that students largely sought more conversations on diversity and inclusion in the classroom. It appears no concrete actions have been taken at this stage. Additionally, there is no evidence St. Johns requires critical race theory-related training for its faculty or students.
Actions Taken
- Admissions Policies
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In June 2023, in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action, St. John's President issued the following statement: "Today’s Supreme Court decision will not change our commitment to ensuring that St. John’s College remains a diverse and inclusive community of learning. Our admissions and financial aid teams are dedicated to employing every tool at our disposal so that qualified students of all races experience this transformative college experience, and we honor our mission to provide an education for all."
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As a result of the work of the Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, the college has instituted many new initiatives including the following: "the college has made great strides in providing ongoing financial support for financially at-risk students, many of whom are students of color." Additionally, the college is "[p]artnering with academically outstanding public and private schools, some of which serve predominately minority students; if accepted, students from our partner schools receive automatic additional scholarships."
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As a result of the work of the Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, the college has instituted many new initiatives including the following: "Increasing the diversity of our frontline recruitment staff within the Admissions Office, including a Spanish-speaking counselor and an assistant director of admissions focused on diversity recruitment."
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- Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training
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As a result of the work of the Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, the college has instituted many new initiatives including the following: "Ongoing faculty seminars and discussion on gender and race in the classroom, which allows for open conversations about how to best explore hard and challenging themes in Program books."
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- Resources
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St. John's established the "Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion" to determine the status of diversity and inclusion on campus and ways to improve. This task force released a report in 2021 finding lower rates of satisfaction from "BIPOC" students and a desire "to have deeper and more honest conversations around issues related to diversity and inclusion..." The task force notes that it may not be able to "fix a problem whose cause may be largely rooted in systemic social issues..."
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The SJC Bookstore sells "The 1619 Project," which was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine. According to the bookstore, this book "offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present."
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