We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.
SOM’s mission to educate leaders for business and society urges us to engage with the problems afflicting our world—especially issues of discrimination, bias, and equity—in our pursuit of supporting the education of purpose-driven and inclusive business leaders.
In order to fulfill this distinctive mission, we must be a community that achieves and celebrates diversity in our own ranks. We aspire to build and sustain a welcoming community in which unique perspectives are heard and valued—and all community members feel that they belong.
The Office of Inclusion and Diversity is the centralized hub for advancing DEI at SOM.
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Belonging at Yale
In the fall of 2020, Belonging at Yale was launched as a three- to five-year initiative based on recommendations on diversity, inclusion, and belonging by a group of faculty and administrators. The five-year Belonging at Yale Action Plan (2020-2025) was the result and concluded at the end of the 2024-2025 academic year.
The action plan included six broad areas: scholarship, research, practice, and teaching; diversity of the Yale community; equitable process, procedure, and responses; professional and personal development of inclusive practice; acknowledgment, recognition, and respect; and communication, transparency, and accountability. The plan addressed the interests and needs of staff, faculty, students, and alumni.
Every school and administrative division participated in Belonging at Yale through unit-specific activities. The collaborative effort of the whole community is reflected in past annual reports.