Stanford University

Creating Anti-Bias training for staff and Anti-Racism orientation requirements for incoming students.

Stanford University’s Office for Inclusion, Belonging & Intergroup Communication offers LINKS workshops. LINK workshops have been designed to “engage students in dialogue about essential topics related to equity and inclusion.” This fall they are hosting a LINK workshop for students to gather with their peers to “connect and reflect on identity while exploring concepts related to community cultural wealth.”

Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences offers its departments "the opportunity to request workshops that will support staff’s professional development, knowledge, and skillset of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging." Workshops included are "Anti-racist Bystander Intervention Strategies" and "Power, Privilege, and Systems of Oppression."

Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning offers strategies to minimize the "negative effects" of implicit bias and microaggressions in the classroom which "can significantly impact your students' ability to learn and succeed."

Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning's IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in a Learning Environment) Pedagogy program "provides a unified curriculum around inclusive and equitable pedagogy to represent all dimensions of diversity, promote student belonging, and equalize access for all students." The program is designed for "instructors and departments and programs enrolling Stanford undergraduate and graduate students, across schools and disciplines."

Stanford's "Our Vision" website states the following: "Infused throughout the vision is a dedication to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment on our campus and in our research, and to addressing racial justice in our community." The site continues, "Through the vision, Stanford is assuming a greater responsibility for the societal and ethical impact of our research and education by embedding ethics in a curriculum taken by all first year students."

Research grants for the IDEAL fellows program and new Center for Racial Justice (Stanford Law School) will be given to research societal problems, injustices, and race/ethnicity.

Stanford University’s Office for Inclusion, Belonging & Intergroup Communication (IBIC) has created the Dialogue Grant Program that “offers grants to students, staff, or faculty members who seek to carry out a project that centers diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity through intergroup communication. Projects are accepted on a rolling basis and could be awarded up to $300 per individual or $500 per group.

Official University Resources/literature encourage “allyship,” continued “protests,” and anti-racist mindset changes to combat and dismantle “systemic racism.”

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute offers resources on "Anti-Racism Education," including Ibram X. Kendi's "How to be an Anti-Racist."

The Office of Student Affairs offered educational materials including a link to “Anti-racism resources."

The Office for Inclusion, Belonging and Intergroup Communication offered resources on "Exploring Racism & Anti-Racism," such as Kimberle Crenshaw's talk titled "The Urgency of Intersectionality" and the "Seeing White" podcast.

The Stanford Libraries started the KNOW Systemic Racism (KSR) project. Using the project, users will know: "Systemic Racism Actually Does Exist; How Systemic Racism Interconnects; How to Help Fight Systemic Racism."

Stanford University Libraries has dedicated a guide to anti-racism and protest movement. This guide offers research materials in the following areas: healthcare, criminal justice, employment, food, healthcare, housing, literature, politics & economics, psychology, and technology.

Stanford University’s Office for Inclusion, Belonging & Intergroup Communication offers a peer facilitation program. The Stanford Peer Facilitation Program was designed to “engage in structured conversations and learning experiences around Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) with their peers in their respective student-based-spaces – organizations and dorms.” The mission of the program is to “nurture equitable student communities at Stanford University through peer-led explorations of social identity and power… by creat[ing] a cohort of student leaders who foster a campus culture where every student feels seen, heard, and valued.”

Stanford University’s Office for Inclusion, Belonging & Intergroup Communication (IBIC) offers workshops for staff and faculty that allow them to interact with topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This fall in train-the-trainer, Stanford faculty and staff will learn “how to facilitate courageous conversations.”

Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences offers a "Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Change Makers Certificate" and an "Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate" and states that "The School of Humanities & Sciences affirms its commitment to fostering a community that actively addresses issues of power and inclusion by forwarding social justice and equity at Stanford and beyond."

University apologized to its departments for following president's order against diversity training.

Stanford University’s Office for Inclusion, Belonging & Intergroup Communication (IBIC) partners with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts to host long-standing NSO program Faces of Community. Faces of Community is “designed to introduce new first-year and transfer students to the diversity of identities, stories, and talents of current, fellow students in the Stanford community.”

On January 30, 2023, University officials sent a message regarding the death of Tyre Nichols and stated, "it is particularly gut wrenching to see this happen to yet another member of the Black community – a community that experiences these grievous acts at a higher rate than any other in our society."

Stanford's Provost issued a statement on diversity and inclusion and stated, "Despite our current commitments to equity and access, our collective history is built on the efforts of populations that have been historically marginalized and denied equal access to higher education" and "student advocacy led Stanford to reevaluate the names of several buildings and streets and to rename some of them, recognizing that retaining the existing name in some cases was 'inconsistent with the university’s integrity and harmful to its research and teaching missions and inclusiveness'".

On June 29, 2023, Stanford's President issued a "message regarding [the] Supreme Court ruling on race-conscious university admissions" which states the following: "...I am deeply disappointed by today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upends the long-standing practice of race-conscious university admissions to help achieve a diverse student body. I know that many of you in our community are disheartened. Now, our task is to respond in ways that allow Stanford to continue expanding opportunity and fulfilling our mission in a diverse and changing world."