Tag: John Silvanus Wilson
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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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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).
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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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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…
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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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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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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.
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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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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.