Example Inclusive Syllabus Statements

Example Inclusive Syllabus Statements

Sample Diversity Statement (provided by Sara Brownell and the RISE center team):

Diversity and Inclusion

With a diverse student population here at ASU, we value every student’s unique identities. Our goal as instructors is to ensure all students feel like a welcomed member of the ASU community. Additionally, we strive to provide a supportive environment and the essential tools to foster student success, both inside and outside the classroom.

If you go by a name other than what is on the class roster or displayed on Canvas, please let me know so I can correct my roster and assist you with correcting Canvas. Additional information on how to make name corrections in other university systems is also provided through the University Registrar Services.

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

Arizona State University and the School of Life Sciences (SOLS) acknowledge the twenty-two Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. The lands ASU has stood upon since 1886 are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Piipaash, Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. SOLS recognizes that as an academic unit of ASU it would not be here today if not for the occupation of O’odham and Piipaash lands that reached a major milestone in 1868 when Phoenix became an election precinct, which was soon followed by a rapidly growing settler population that instigated the “Time of Famine” upon the O’odham and Piipaash populations.

ASU acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students. SOLS believes that in order to “create an atmosphere that inspires diverse groups of visionary students and researchers to lead with us” as charged by our unit vision, we must acknowledge, include, and champion the success of our Native American and indigenous students. Only through this inclusion can we achieve our mission of “solving critical problems at the intersection of the life sciences and society.”