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Talking ����ֱ�� Race
To create an equal society, we must commit to making unbiased choices and being antiracist in all aspects of our lives.

Center for Teaching and Learning

Teaching inclusively means embracing student diversity in all forms — such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, gender identity, socioeconomic background, ideology, and even personality traits like introversion — as an asset. It means designing and teaching courses in ways that foster success for all our students. It further means mindfully removing barriers for traditionally underserved students by actively fostering a sense of belonging, providing equitable access to course materials, and creating a safe classroom environment. 

   J. Fitzgerald Pickens II, President, Black Student Alliance, ����ֱ�� Boulder

Office of Diversity, Equity & Community Engagement

����ֱ�� Boulder recognizes its obligation to redress systemic racism and to foster a campus culture that confronts racism and promotes equity for students, faculty and staff. ����ֱ�� Boulder commits to taking a series of immediate actions in advance of the Fall 2020 semester. These actions are ����ֱ�� Boulder’s initial response and will be augmented with other actions that will occur in the Fall and Spring semesters, as well as long-term actions that will extend into Academic Year 2021. Additionally, these actions will be coordinated as part of the implementation of the Inclusion, Diversity and Excellence in Academics (IDEA) Plan, approved earlier this year, through which we will drive priorities moving forward.

   Petition development by Ruth Woldemichael & Olivia Gardner, BSA members, Black Student Alliance

Black Student Alliance, University of ����ֱ�� Boulder

BSA Organizational Statement: As students, we have developed distinct values, beliefs and behaviors, which greatly benefit our campus. This collective consciousness enables our community and helps define our own identity as Black & underrepresented students at the University of ����ֱ�� Boulder.

The Black Student Alliance is an organization that serves as an advocate of the Black/African American student and as ally to all other underrepresented voices on campus.

We wish to expose all students, faculty, and staff of the University of ����ֱ�� Boulder to new ideas and experiences in order to create positive change.

Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.

Essay by Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price (published Jan. 22, 2020)
Whilst postcolonial studies and critical race studies have been informing and challenging the shape of art history for several decades, new generations of students, scholars, critics, curators, collectors, artists and audiences are seeking radical re‐evaluations of the academy and those cultural institutions who hold themselves up as standard‐bearers of our collective cultural heritage. But, what, if anything, is specific about the current moment's demands to reassess how universities, museums, and galleries teach, research, collect and exhibit? How can art historians, curators, collectors, museum directors, artists and writers respond to the call to decolonize art history? How can we draw from the rich legacy of postcolonial, feminist, queer and Marxist perspectives within art history, and what are the new theoretical perspectives that are needed?