Tag: John Silvanus Wilson

  • Nation & World

    Culture Lab Innovation Fund award winners announced

    This year’s winners of grants from the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund range from an online race research and policy portal to mentoring technology called SySTEMatic.

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    Harvard Yard
  • Nation & World

    Rewarding innovation in inclusion

    John Silvanus Wilson, senior adviser and strategist to President Larry Bacow, announced the 2020‒2021 grants recipients of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF).

    4 minutes
    Harvard students.
  • Nation & World

    Trust, belonging, keys to mental health of students of color

    Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School said despite progress at making college student bodies more diverse, work still needs to be done to make students of all backgrounds feel welcome, a key step in heading off increased rates of mental illness such students experience on campus.

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    Panel for mental health for people of color at Chan School
  • Nation & World

    Increasing digital accessibility

    As part of its ongoing efforts to ensure the accessibility of its digital systems and communications to persons with disabilities, Harvard University today announced the adoption of a new, University-wide Digital Accessibility Policy. This policy is intended to increase the accessibility of Harvard’s public-facing websites and web-based applications, as well as the digital content that…

    5 minutes
    Computer keyboard symbolizing digital access
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s pulse on inclusion and belonging

    Harvard University is piloting an unprecedented University-wide survey to measure progress toward inclusion and belonging for all faculty, staff, students, and other members of the Harvard community.

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    Students walk across Harvard Yard
  • Nation & World

    An invitation to sound off

    An initiative to increase awareness of inclusion and belonging got its kickoff in late November, when the #consciousharvard sounding board spent a week at the Smith Center in the first of a series of planned events.

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    Conscious Kickoff at Smith Center
  • Nation & World

    An update on Harvard’s diversity, inclusion efforts

    In a Q&A session, presidential adviser and strategist John Silvanus Wilson discusses progress implementing the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging.

    15 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Report issued on inclusion, belonging

    Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging issued its final report, a compilation of eight recommendations and a framework of “four goals and four tools” meant as a blueprint for advancing Harvard’s practices and culture of inclusion and belonging. President Drew Faust announced a series of initiatives to advance this work.

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    The final report on the Taskforce on Inclusion and Belonging
  • Nation & World

    A Harvard to make Du Bois nod yes

    The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has issued its final report. The Gazette spoke with John Silvanus Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and new senior adviser and strategist to the president charged with implementing its recommendations.

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    John Silvanus Wilson, former president of Morehouse College,