From diversifying its pool of faculty candidates, to providing inclusivity training, and creating structural spaces on campus for diverse programs, UC Law San Francisco’s leaders shared some of the law school’s successes in promoting a diverse and inclusive campus and also some of its goals for the future.
Chancellor and Dean David Faigman and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives Mario Ernesto Lopez ‘15 shared the information at the law school’s first-ever campus-wide DEI forum in early January.
Successes at the school have included:
Many of the changes reflect the needs expressed in the April 2022 recommendations made by the Campus Climate Advisory Committee. Those recommendations followed a campus climate survey that took place in March 2021 and the formation of a DEI working group in 2018. The DEI Working Group is currently working on community guidelines that reflect campus values.
Strategies to promote diversity and inclusion span our campus departments, including enrollment management, academic programs, faculty hiring, curriculum and even the physical spaces on campus.
Lopez pointed out that the law school participates in several programs to recruit diverse students, including hosting a Black Pre-Law Conference, recruiting from historically black colleges and...
A woman allegedly involved in a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme with her three sons had pleaded not guilty. Serene Peters was arrested at the border in August after spending nearly thre...