多样性、公平和包容

关于多样性、公平和包容的声明

At 水牛神学院, we celebrate our diverse identities and perspectives. We embrace diversity as necessary for our collective growth and achievement. 为了达到这个目的, 我们十大彩票平台并寻求学生, 家庭, and employees who contribute to the richness of our diverse community. And we work every day to ensure that all who come within our walls have what they need to realize their potential and to participate fully in school life.

性别认同政策

水牛神学院 was founded to challenge the limits placed on girls because of their gender.

We expect our students to examine the role gender plays in their lives. Some students may come to question their own gender identity, or may not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. We support all our students on their journey toward self-knowledge, and we provide resources for any student with questions about gender identity. 我们是一所赋予女性权力的学校. And we welcome those students who do not conform to society’s traditional expectations of gender. We provide accommodations -- consistent with our identity as a school for girls --for our non-binary or transgender students. If the accommodations we are able to provide do not meet that student’s needs, we will work to find a placement for that student in a suitable school. At all times, we will be guided by the best interests of the student and the school community.

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2020年7月30日

We are committed to the work of becoming an anti-racist community. To begin,  the 十大彩票平台 Board of Trustees created an Anti-Racist Taskforce (ART) in June.

7月我们订婚了 妮可•李来帮助我们. Ms. Lee is a nationally recognized expert in the diversity, equity, and inclusion field. 她提出 这是反种族主义资源的列表.

June 15, 2020: We are in a moment of national reckoning.

阿默德·阿贝里最近的死亡, Breonna泰勒, and George Floyd have brought our nation to a tipping point. 对于许多美国白人来说, 种族主义长期以来一直是一种抽象概念, but bystander recordings have brought them face to face with its cruel realities. 人们纷纷走上街头, understanding now that there is no middle ground when it comes to racism. We are all affected by it, and we are all responsible for dismantling it.

Our predominantly white school faces its own reckoning. Few would disagree that equity, diversity, and inclusion echo 十大彩票平台’s defining values. 在多元化的社区学习, 关于不同的观点, 造型的一部分是深思熟虑的吗, 足智多谋, 还有善解人意的女人. But when the school is called upon to live out those values, it too often falls short; direct talk about racism is avoided and action kept to a minimum. 学校决心做得更好.

Our board of trustees has established an anti-racist taskforce, led by Trustee Jennifer Roberts '92 and Vice-Chair Kate Bowen Smith ‘92. 委员会将听取学生们的意见, 教师, and alumnae and evaluating concrete changes such as affinity groups and protocols for handling diversity conflicts.

As a beginning for parents, we offered the webinar below.

This webinar is one component of 水牛神学院's work to combat racism.

在这一刻, 种族主义充斥图像, 单词, 以及社交媒体上的视频流媒体, and 十大彩票平台 students are overwhelmed with conflicting information and emotions. The 教师 and staff recognize this highly fraught atmosphere, and seek to support all 十大彩票平台 students so that each girl may truly be proud of her ability to shape society rather than to be controlled by it. 

种族主义的长, shameful shadow continues to hang over America today—it poisons our institutions, 实践, 和态度. 太久了, parents of color have shouldered the burden of talking to their children about race in order to protect them. 十大彩票平台’s students of color have also felt pressure to educate their white peers about racial issues. 种族歧视, however, is not a problem for people of color to solve. Ending racism will only be possible when white Americans accept their responsibility in this work. 历史 has shown us that legislative policies alone are not enough to cure us of this societal ill. White Americans must also change the way we think, talk and act about race.

We created this webinar to provide white 家庭 with resources to be able to talk with their daughters about racism, and to discuss the role white people must play to build a safer and more just world. 种族歧视, white supremacy and white privilege are difficult and uncomfortable to talk about, 但不应忌讳. 正如作家詹姆斯·鲍德温所说, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, 但在面对它之前，什么也改变不了.” 

我们对遇难者家属表示感谢, 教员, and community partners who attended our webinar, and for their support of the work we must all undertake. This is one part of 十大彩票平台’s continuing commitment to diversity and inclusion, and we are hopeful that this webinar will provide a path for all of the 十大彩票平台 community to have these essential conversations.

Panelists and Contributors: Caitlin Cass, Susan Drozd, Jennifer Goetz-Bixby, Kyle & 道格·霍普金斯, 凯伦Knab, 安莱斯利, 凯特琳Littlefield, 杰西Mank, 希瑟·麦卡锡, 杰斯西尔弗斯坦, 娜塔莉Stothart, 异形杀手莱特