With philanthropic support, we’re creating a more diverse and inclusive Brown and advancing pathbreaking research focused on creating a more equitable and just world.
Advancing Excellence
In 2016, the University launched Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University (DIAP), an ambitious plan to achieve the highest level of academic excellence by building a fully diverse and inclusive Brown. Now, increasing numbers of the best and brightest researchers, scholars, and students from a full range of backgrounds across the nation are deciding that Brown is the place they want to be.
“ We are bringing together exceptionally talented students, faculty, and staff from across the spectrum of human experience, and doing so in ways that increase the impact of our teaching, research, and scholarship. ”
By recruiting and retaining faculty from a multitude of backgrounds and experiences—and by increasing resources that enable them to study issues related to equity and the impacts of marginalization—we deepen and broaden the impact and reach of our scholarship. What’s more, by creating a learning community that embodies the social and intellectual diversity of the world, our students gain the skills and insight they need to thrive in today's global marketplace.
Top students also see Brown as the place that will prepare them for life after college, and that will support them intellectually and socially. With contributions from the donor community, we have increased support for academic and programmatic initiatives designed to make sure that all students have access to the many opportunities available.
These investments are essential to our core mission of academic excellence. Together, we’re strengthening Brown’s distinctive and rigorous approach to teaching and research and amplifying the University’s impact beyond campus and across the globe.
By providing financial resources, this fund helps to remove barriers to a medical education and help bring students from all backgrounds to The Warren Alpert Medical School.
With its support of the Health Equity Scholars Program, this fund provides specialized training and financial aid to exceptional Master of Public Health (MPH) candidates—with a focus on graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), alumni of Hispanic-serving institutions, and residents of Rhode Island.
Gifts to this flexible, current-use fund allow the School of Engineering to support a diverse, equitable, and welcoming environment for all students.
This capacity-building, information-sharing, and experiential initiative aims to solidify Brown University as a bridge builder to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
Brown's Office of Diversity and Inclusion—in collaboration with Brown’s Rockefeller and John Hay libraries and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women—conducted a series of interviews and collected artifacts from alumni.
The $20-million capital project has transformed the building into a welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. It will accommodate the recent growth of the Department of Africana Studies, making room for new faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate concentrators. It will also create new opportunities for Rites and Reason Theatre to be a hub for teaching, performance, and community engagement at the intersection of performing arts and Africana studies.
For information about specific giving opportunities, contact:
Alyssia Coates, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Development
+1 (401) 863-1221
alyssia_coates@brown.edu
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