University Mandates a ‘Welcoming and Inclusive’ Environment From All Departments
Everyone has to feel welcome and included at Saint Louis University.
The College Fix reports.
University requires all academic departments to become more ‘welcoming and inclusive’
Every academic department at Saint Louis University has been mandated to “hold a discussion and identify at least one action its members” will take to make the university more “welcoming and inclusive to all.”
Each department must submit their “action item” by Jan. 31, according to the university’s president.
Fred Pestello, president of the private, Catholic university, doled out the task in a Dec. 3 email to faculty.
“In recent weeks, universities across the country have found themselves responding to student protests grounded in long-standing frustration and anger about racial inequity,” the first sentence reads. “Many young people are hurt and shaken by the cruelty and slights they experience on and off their campuses.”
But Pestello touted his university’s response to a six-night protest that took place on the urban campus last year, in which students and activists refused to leave the campus in a protest known as “Occupy SLU.” The protest served as an extension of the summertime protests in nearby Ferguson over the police shooting of Michael Brown.
University requires all academic departments to become more ‘welcoming and inclusive’ (The College Fix)