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Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiatives
MIP Statement on Racial Justice
The Masters in International Policy (MIP) joins other university centers at Stanford in condemning the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, and countless other African-Americans. We express our outrage at police violence and express our solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
FSI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
FSI's REDI (Racial Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion) Task Force Webpage
REDI Task Force Event Series: Critical Conversations on Race in Global Affairs
Critical Conversations on Race in Global Affairs
Join the REDI Task Force for an event series focused on the intersection of racial inequality and international research, politics, and policy.
FSI, REDI Task Force, and Stanford Diversity & Inclusion Resources
DEI Resources and Opportunities List for Graduate Students
Campus resources and engagement opportunities
- MIP Statement on Racial Justice
- International Policy Student Association's (IPSA) Initiatives
- MIP Faculty Forum, July 2020
MIP Statement on Racial Justice
MIP Statement on Racial Justice
June 19, 2020
The Masters in International Policy (MIP) joins other university centers at Stanford in condemning the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, and countless other African-Americans. We express our outrage at police violence and express our solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
In order to realize the goal of racial justice, we believe it is important for every American institution to take a critical look at its own practices and performance, and that includes MIP. We need to move beyond words to concrete actions.
MIP recognizes the need to improve our record on diversity, both with regard to students and faculty, and acknowledge that we could do better. This is particularly true with regard to the Black community, which has been under-represented in the program. After convening a Town Hall with the MIP community, we are able to pledge to do the following:
- The program will redouble its efforts to consider such applicants, and will undertake to increase the pipeline of applicants through outreach to historically black colleges and universities, and to community colleges.
- MIP will seek to increase the diversity of its adjunct faculty and work with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) to do the same with Institute fellows teaching in the program. It will encourage existing faculty to expand their syllabi and readings to encompass broader points of view. The program urges students to make suggestions for more diverse classes to be added to the area of specialization requirements.
- We encourage the International Policy Student Association (IPSA) to elect a Diversity and Inclusion Officer(s) who can serve on the new FSI Racial Justice Task Force.
- MIP will consider ways of including mandatory diversity and inclusion training as part of its curriculum for incoming students.
- The program will hold regular Town Hall meetings to allow both current students, faculty, and alumni to come together to discuss implementation of these and other ideas.
We want to thank our students for challenging us to meet this moment, and we look forward to continuing this engagement in the coming school year.
The MIP Program Leadership
International Policy Student Association's (IPSA) Initiatives
In response to nation-wide calls for racial justice, the International Policy Student’s Association (IPSA) drafted a proposal for the creation of a committee on diversity, inclusion and racial justice (CoDIRJ) in June 2020. The committee is intended to be a long-term working effort by members of IPSA to promote diversity and inclusion within the program, administration, and FSI community; to identify areas or practices which have contributed to racial oppression or inequities; to normalize practices which address harmful institutional practices; to integrate the members of IPSA with campus communities which promote and celebrate diversity; to coordinate on-campus recruitment from those same communities; to coordinate off-campus recruitment efforts to include underprivileged communities and communities of color; and enact other initiatives to further these aims. The MIP representatives for the academic year 2020-21 are Ankita Banerjea from the Class of 2021 and Emily Bauer from the Class of 2022. These students also serve as full members of FSI’s REDI taskforce, where they serve as liaisons for their respective cohorts and are able to voice student concerns at monthly plenary meetings and have their own sub-committee to brainstorm ways to understand various facets of the student experience and make it as equitable as possible.
MIP Faculty Forum, July 2020
On July 15, 2020, the MIP program convened a faculty forum to discuss and recommend to faculty, expanding their syllabi topics and readings to cover diverse points of view and impact.