The Working Group will take an inventory of current EDI initiatives at SJU, identify current institutional strengths and challenges, review promising practices, and formulate baseline recommendations to be used in the development of SJU’s action plan.

The development of the SJU EDI action plan. That work will be spearheaded by the President’s Advisory Group, which will be formed once the initial phase has been completed.

The implementation and assessment phase, which will be administered by the Administrative Leadership Group. The Advisory Group recommends that the proposed Phase 3 of SJU’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative begin in Fall 2023 and that the President form a permanent institutional committee to take up the recommendations in this report and to address other initiatives related to the ongoing work of anti-racism, equity, inclusion, decolonization, and Indigenization. This group should be tasked with ongoing assessment of this work including establishing a system of accountability and periodic reporting that is sensitive to appropriate data collection and governance practices.