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Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna泰勒. 乔治•弗洛伊德. 以利亚麦克莱恩. These and countless more examples of horrific police brutality and acts of violence perpetrated against Black people compel us to authentically share our commitments to combat all forms of racism, including institutional racism and the devastating harm that it causes.

While the recent horrific murders are not new, the 学生办公室主任 and the 学生关怀中心 are motivated to publicly share our work and thoughts now after taking time to reflect on our work, 权力, 和特权, and to discuss actionable steps we can take as a team. We acknowledge that the systems and structures in place in higher education are based on a tradition of racist and white supremacist ideals.

We recognize the problematic nature of this and are working to understand and atone for the impact on students. We see the experiences of 密歇根州立大学丹佛’s students who identify as Black, 土著, and People of Color (BIPOC) who are adversely affected by the systemic racism in our society. 皇冠官网网站的承诺, as professional 工作人员 within the 学生办公室主任 and 学生关怀中心, to students is centered on identifying, 改变, and removing barriers to success that were created with not all students in mind.

We are actively working to understand and reverse the impacts of systemic racism and oppression, 皇冠官网网站如何使它永久化, and how we can dismantle it at 密歇根州立大学丹佛 and beyond. We know we have a lot of work to do. To create sustained change within the University, the 学生办公室主任 and 学生关怀中心 commit to engaging in the following:

• 解决皇冠官网网站的荣幸, 无论是个人还是职业, when engaging in work with students and colleagues. We will do this by initiating discussions that acknowledge the privileged identities we bring with those we interact with directly in meetings/forums. We understand these conversations are difficult but essential to our work.
• 涉及的工作, 招募, 雇佣, retain 工作人员 (professional and student) who closely reflect the demographics of the 密歇根州立大学丹佛 student body.
• Ensure the experiences and perspectives of our BIPOC student, 工作人员, and faculty voices are heard on new initiatives or programming decisions through committee involvement and feedback forums.
• Re-Creating a CARE Referral process that allows for a more welcoming and inclusive environment for students to get connected to our office.
• Publishing reports to ensure transparency. Examples of the type of data shared; how many students we serve, 食物分发处统计数字, and the Student 紧急 Retention Fund.
• Reviewing the structures and language within the 学生行为准则, identifying where processes may mirror the criminal justice system, remove problematic areas of the code, and reframe the code through an anti-racist lens and with the goal of being more restorative.
• Elevating student perspectives in the development of the Dialogues program, 培训, and positioning them as facilitators
• Rather than sole reliance on the police, identify and use alternative methods of support in crisis situations to promote student safety and least potential harmful impacts on students and the community
• 挑战校园里的同事, including our Auraria 校园警察 Department colleagues with whom we work regularly, to combat the ways in which racism and other forms of hatred show up on campus and to make similar commitments to their own learning and justice-oriented action.

We commit to holding ourselves accountable to what we have outlined above by regularly revisiting the above-listed commitments each semester, calling one another in when we misstep or cause harm, taking steps to make repairs when we cause harm, 然后继续这项工作, regardless of how difficult it may be or how busy we become.