Thomas Jefferson University

Jefferson is working towards “recruiting and retaining a diverse student body that reflects our global community” as well as “recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce that mirror the communities we serve.”

Jefferson’s Enterprise Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement “hosts cultural competency training sessions” for both students and staff.

Jefferson offers a workshop program called “Let’s Talk,” which “is designed to address the educational and awareness needs of the Jefferson Enterprise in regards to topics like, unconscious bias, systemic racism, [and] race in America” in addition to several others.

Jefferson states that its “Enterprise Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement offers core fundamental education on Stereotypes, Bias, Inclusion and being an Ally through mandatory e-learning courses” which are required of all employees, staff, and faculty.

Jefferson hosts a program, Inclusion Advocates, which consists of “DEI Council members who advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion within their divisions” who are trained to represent DEI values.

As part of Jefferson's BS in Interdisciplinary Studies, students can specialize in Diversity Studies, which offers "opportunities to build your knowledge and use it to lead initiatives that help address complex issues around equity and inclusion."

As part of the Jefferson Humanities and Health Programs, the Anti-Racism in Health Focus will "develop their [student's] understanding of present and historical factors affecting health equity—including how systemic racism disrupts access to and quality of care—to inform their futures as healthcare practitioners committed to socio-political awareness and cultural humility."

Thomas Jefferson University Libraries has a website dedicated to anti-racism resources. This is open to all undergraduates and graduates.

The school developed the “Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement Blueprint for Action.”

Jefferson’s Student Center for Inclusive Excellence serves to “support inclusion related initiatives between campus partners, academic departments, student clubs, and organization.” Furthermore, the center will also “provide resources, such as meeting and programming spaces, and multi-use dialogue and study spaces.”

The school offers the D&I Education Catalogue, which is “intended to be a place with self-contained education resources that managers can use to help to encourage learning about a variety of D&I topics within their own department.”

The "research focus" of Dr. Marilisa Navarro, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, is "critical race studies" and the "relationship between oppression toward marginalized communities (people of color, women, and those who are working class), and how these communities resist oppression."

According to the Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement, Jefferson took the American Hospital Association's "#123 for Equity Pledge to Act" which "urges hospital and health system leaders to continue to develop and implement strategies to increase the collection and use of race, ethnicity and language preference and sociodemographic data; advance cultural competency training; and increase diversity in leadership and governance."