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Diversity can be multivariate, intersectional, and complex — and at HGSE, we define a diverse population to include a wide range of racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities; economic and geographic backgrounds; abilities; life, school, and career experiences; and political, religious, and personal beliefs. These and other important attributes reflect the complexity of our increasingly diverse student body, local community, and worldwide population.
As part of our commitment to our common mission, we each share a responsibility to respect the rights, differences, and dignity of others, and to sustain an environment that is conducive to fostering the highest levels of learning for all.
Read more about HGSE's Commitment to Diversity.
"At HGSE, we aspire to be a richly diverse place where everyone can thrive as their authentic selves and do their best work to improve the world through education. Realizing this vision requires our collective energy, humanity, creativity, and dedication."
Bridget LongDean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
HGSE's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work with students, faculty, and staff is guided by skills and competencies that are responsive to expressed student needs and aligned with best practices across higher education. They are grounded in four outcomes domains: Knowledge, Reflective and Developmental Self-Work, Interpersonal and Group Work, and Organizational and Systems Work.
Helping faculty develop the dispositions, knowledge, and skills to engage in anti-racist practices, to disrupt and dismantle racism, and to empower students to do the same.
AOCC is an annual milestone at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — an ambitious gathering designed by HGSE students to bring awareness to the educational issues affecting communities of color.
Fellows expand the HGSE community's global and cultural awareness, promoting comparative thinking and perspective-taking for U.S.-based students and international students alike, and creating the potential for lasting partnerships and continued global education exchanges.
A learning community for white-identified faculty who want to learn more about how their whiteness impacts an understanding of race and racism.
Awards small grants to support student-initiated ideas and projects that broaden the conversation at HGSE and allow for more and varied perspectives, experiences, and forums for exchange.
Provides a range of learning and leadership opportunities for a diverse group of students who are invested in collaborating across differences to catalyze change. Fellows work proactively to drive diversity initiatives at HGSE and across Harvard.
There are more than 30 officially recognized student organizations, ranging in focus from entrepreneurship to international issues to such affinity groups as the Black Student Union, Communidad LatinX, Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education (FIERCE), the Pan Asian Coalition for Education, and QueerEd.
HGSE faculty members can engage deeply in conversation, training, and collaboration as they develop their instructional practices and enrich their course design in ways that actively prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion.
HGSE’s Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) offers more resources on teaching for diversity, equity, and anti-racism.
A video guide from Instructional Moves helps teachers ensure that their strategies of soliciting participation are fair, inclusive, and purposeful.
This 4-page resource provides guidance on how to facilitate difficult conversations, ranging from the big-picture view of how to prepare before the discussion begins to the details of how a particular intervention might look and sound.
A continuously growing archive of teaching and learning materials — books, videos, lesson plans, activist resources — about race, racial justice and anti-racism.
Recommendations on inclusivity of transgender and gender nonconforming students and staff, from the Harvard College Women’s Center.
A video guide from HGSE's Instructional Moves helps teachers create safe and open environments in which to wrestle with difficult conversation topics.
The Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Office works across the University with stakeholders and partners to guide Harvard’s culture toward sustainable and inclusive excellence.
This 2-page annotated and curated guide offers actionable ideas for teaching in traumatic times; teaching during elections; discussing difficult topics; and anti-racist, equitable teaching.
This 9-page tool helps you examine the inclusivity of your syllabus along multiple dimensions and provides guidance for making it more inclusive.
Learn more about upcoming events and opportunities hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Although the Harvard Graduate School of Education community spans the globe, we acknowledge that the land on which many of our homes, schools, and places of work sit are the ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples. In Cambridge, the land on which we gather is the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett.
We also recognize the enslaved individuals who helped to build Harvard University and others across this country, understanding the role that they played in creating and funding educational institutions that were not intended to serve them and did not regard the dignity of their humanity.
Acknowledging our history is an important step in combating the erasure of the essential contributions, sacrifices, and stories of those before us. It is a step towards ensuring a culture of awareness, respect, and accountability within our community.
View the Acknowledgment of Land and People by the Harvard University Native American Program.
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The next phase of the project, led by Professor Jarvis Givens and Radcliffe's Imani Perry, will support new research and fill in gaps in the archive's collection
New book emphasizes need to advance beyond workforce diversity efforts focused purely on recruitment and retention
The discussion centered on open dialogue about the conflict in Israel and Palestine