{"id":62871,"date":"2023-05-03T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?page_id=62871"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:42:28","slug":"equity-inclusion-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/about\/equity-inclusion\/equity-inclusion-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity & Inclusion Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Equity & Inclusion Committee leads our community in promoting and centering racial, economic, and social justice, including utilizing an intersectional lens to understand how ethnicity, class, gender, disabilities, LGBT issues, and other lived experiences impact social work. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A dedicated group of faculty, staff, students, and alumni work together to promote engaged conversation, collective learning, and community activities focused on equity, inclusion and anti-oppressive practice for our entire community.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our History<\/h2>\n

Social Justice Learning Communities<\/h4>\n

In 2018\u20132019, close to 100 BUSSW faculty, staff, and administrators participated in an internal initiative to improve our teaching and learning around racial and social justice. The cohorts had three primary goals:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. To offer education and training around racial \/ social justice to all members of our BUSSW community<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. To develop shared organizational language, analytic frameworks, and practice around racial \/ social justice as applied to social work education<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. To apply our shared framework and language to our relationships with all members of the BUSSW community, with the aim of further improving our instruction and classroom learning environments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    During the first year, each cohort met monthly for 90-minute sessions to discuss and apply learning materials to current challenges at our School and in their personal lives. <\/span>The project expanded to include ongoing cohort sessions for:<\/span><\/p>\n