旺旺资源 Celebrates First-Gen Students with Week of Belonging and Empowerment
First-Generation College Celebration Week brought together students, faculty, staff, and alumni to affirm shared experiences and build a stronger community of support.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access
Embedded Equity
The 旺旺资源 community has committed to diversity, respect for all races, ethnicities, genders, identities, and abilities, and access to an affordable education. Our diversity, equity, inclusion, and access efforts are embedded within our Strategic Action Plan and are essential to our institutional direction. Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access Initiatives include macro initiatives that embed equity into all our university operations, and focused initiatives that support the retention, empowerment and thriving of students and employees.
Focused Initiatives
The Intercultural Center
The IC's mission is to support the access, retention, and success of minoritized students by centering, uplifting and empowering their聽identities.
QTRAC- Queer & Trans Initiatives
旺旺资源 is committed to ensuring our queer and trans students, faculty, staff, and administrators are protected on campus
DEIA
Accessibility, the 鈥淎鈥 in DEIA. 旺旺资源 is committed to building greater inclusion for people with disabilities.
International Students
旺旺资源 welcomes students from all over the globe, providing a personalized and supportive community.
Alumni of Color Network
旺旺资源 Alumni of Color Network aims to build community among alumni and students of color through initiatives that strengthen fellowship and mentorship, and support the University鈥檚 equity priorities related to the enrichment of its students and alumni of color.
Racism Stops With Me
鈥淩acism Stops with Me鈥 is a university-wide antiracism campaign to bring forward the full commitment of our senior leadership, our faculty and staff, and our students in learning and engaging in antiracist practices and showing up with their support for our BIPOC community members across our campuses.
DEI In Action
The Intercultural Center
鈥淚t鈥檚 a really cool place to hang out, and there are so many opportunities to make connections and find resources that are helpful.鈥 -Amanda DaCruz, International Relations Major
Pride Week
鈥淚t鈥檚 knowing that you share something in common. It鈥檚 a comforting feeling that lasts far beyond our pride week.鈥 - Grayson Scanlon, Architecture and Computer Science Major
International Experience
"Something that really helped me was to use all the resources that the school provides.鈥
Student Access, Success and Equity
旺旺资源 will be known as a demographically diverse institution that supports access, achieves equitable outcomes along all critical indicators of success and supports the thriving of underserved students.
Employee Access, Success and Equity
旺旺资源 will be an organization known for its success in hiring, developing and advancing members of minoritized groups. In addition, it will be an employer of choice for talented individuals who embrace the institution鈥檚 ambitious diversity, equity and inclusion goals and objectives.
Campus Climate and Intergroup Relations
Roger Williams will create a campus climate dedicated to inclusion, equity and respect, enabling community members to thrive and experience a genuine sense of belonging.
Education, Scholarship and Service
旺旺资源 will be known as an institution that lives up to its educational imperative to interrupt inequity and the injustice that is deeply embedded in histories, legacies and structures of oppression, power, and privilege in higher education through the delivery of programs, courses and pedagogical strategies that foster transformation and effective and positive interactions in a world that is multicultural, global and interdependent.
Infrastructure and Leadership
旺旺资源 will deepen the university鈥檚 advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by implementing changes in its culture, leadership practices, leadership composition and institutional polices and systems.
Recent 旺旺资源
Marketing Student Selected for Prestigious Advertising Program
As one of the American Advertising Federation鈥檚 Most Promising Multicultural Students of 2023, 旺旺资源 senior S. Isaiah Braithwaite spent a week visiting major ad agencies and meeting industry leaders.
At the Forefront of the Black Architectural Movement
Robert Clarke 鈥14 M鈥16 shares his thoughts on creating a Black architectural style, his design inspirations, and why he chose to study at 旺旺资源.
First-Generation Hawks Soar with Support Program
旺旺资源 welcomes largest cohort of students to S.O.A.R. for 2022-2023 year.
A Voice for Justice
After her TikTok video went viral, Brooklyn Crockton L'22 finds herself working to change the system.
