University of Georgia

One of the goals from UGA's "Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Plan" is to "Increase enrollment of underrepresented students at undergraduate and graduate levels."

The Office of Institutional Diversity at the university facilitates diversity and inclusion initiatives and provides numerous workshops and resources on diversity.

The Department of Plant Biology at the university offers numerous Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings and resources including Implicit Bias Training, UGA Certificate of Diversity and Inclusion, and a Graduate Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

As of November 13, 2020, the University’s Office of Faculty Affairs would administer "training for search committees on implicit biases and the best practices for recruitment of a diverse hiring pool." This training focuses on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) faculty. 

One of the goals of UGA's Office of Institutional Diversity is "Enhancing diversity awareness and education through training and learning opportunities for faculty, students and staff throughout the university."

UGA's Office of Institutional Diversity offers a certificate in diversity and inclusion which provides "diversity education" for school departments and units.

UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences has a "Multicultural Requirement" for undergraduate students that can be "satisfied through the completion of coursework with a significant focus on African American, Asian American, Hispanic American or Native American cultures."

Academic Affairs Policy Statement No. 11 "Cultural Diversity Requirement" mandates that all University of Georgia Graduates take a course or extracurricular that examines how "race, religion, ethnicity, gender, and class have influenced contemporary political, social, and economic issues of society."

The Presidential Task Force on Race, Ethnicity and Community has implemented numerous new programs and diversity initiatives over the last year since 2020 when the President “committed $1 million in private resources from the UGA Athletic Association.”

The Just Education Policy at UGA’s College of Education is a program “to inspire and engage the next generation of racial justice-focused policy scholars.”

UGA's Office of Institutional Diversity outlines several of its scholarship programs including the "Black Alumni Scholarship" and the "Diversity Scholarship."

UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences announced its "2023-24 Seed Grant Program" through its Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity (RED). The mission of RED is to "engage in diversity research and outreach in order to enhance individual, institutional, and community learning, effectiveness, and well -being."

UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences offers an “Innovation in the Franklin Multicultural Curriculum" grant which would "support and encourage faculty to develop new courses that would be appropriate for the college’s multicultural curriculum..." or "significantly revise existing courses in order to be included in the multicultural curriculum."

The Black Alumni Scholarship Fund provides a $2,000 annual scholarship to students who exhibit "dedication to racial equality through previous experience, initiative, and creativity in improving race relations in the community."

The University's Police Department has a diversity statement explaining the commitment "to diversity and inclusion in all its forms" and "remaining transparent and eliminating police cultures that prevent positive connections between the community and their police."

The UGA Staff Council's Dismantling Systematic Racism Ad Hoc Committee offered a presentation by Terry College of Business's Dr. Dawn Bennett-Alexander, titled, "Using Anti-Racism to Dismantle White Supremacy."

The University of Georgia’s Planning Committee on Diversity and Inclusive Excellence established a “five-year roadmap to advance diversity and inclusion at UGA” consisting of 11 university-level strategic diversity initiatives.

UGA faculty and academic leaders met at the Academic Affairs Faculty Symposium on Embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning at UGA where they discussed diverse and inclusive teaching practices and “ways that instructors could redesign courses, assignments and syllabi” as well as “decolorize the syllabus” with the mindset for student interactions as “compliance as the floor and compassion as the ceiling.”

In a June 3, 2021 WUGA article titled "UGA Professor on Critical Race Theory," Dr. Maria Len-Rios (Professor and Associate Dean at UGA’s Grady College) stated that “Critical Race Theory, at its core, is about equal justice,” and “It asks us to be curious about the relationship between different power structures that we have created in society that create racial inequalities."

The University links to a 2018 dissertation by Clifford Emmanuel Little Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy, University of Georgia) titled "Uncovering the mister magic: critical race counternarratives of black male pre-service teachers."

UGA published its "Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Plan" which would "guide the University’s diversity efforts from 2022- 2027 and provide an explicit, integrated, strategic, university-wide approach to our inclusion and diversity efforts."

University of Georgia hosts a LibGuide on resources for anti-racism which is “intended to provide resources to understand and research the structural inequities and systemic racism that have impacted BIPOC.”

The Department of Psychology has a link to several resources and encourages students to take on trainings.

In February 2020, UGA renamed the College of Education in honor of Mary Frances Early who was the first African American graduate at the university.

The School of Public & International Affairs used to have a “Statement Promoting Anti-Racism and Inclusive Public Service.” However, this statement was apparently taken down.

UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences has a Beyond Baldwin Steering Committee which made a report filled with demands for the school to “review and revise curriculum to integrate anti-racist education that enables students to understand and combat racial injustice,” among many other demands.

On October 11, 2023, it was announced that UGA received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity for the 10th consecutive year to its “commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence.”