Many Princeton academic departments, centers, programs and institutes have already composed their own DEI standing committees, DEI statements and community expectations. Additionally, multiple academic departments have conducted their own climate surveys, with support from the Office of the Provost. Below, you can see complete lists of academic units which have engaged in these initiatives with links to areas on their own respective websites where you can learn more.
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Departments with Standing Diversity, Equity, Climate and Inclusion Committees
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- Art and Archaeology
- Astrophysical Sciences
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Computer Science
- Creative Writing
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- English
- Geosciences
- High Meadows Environmental Institute
- History
- Keller Center
- Lewis Center for the Arts
- Lewis-Sigler Institute
- Mathematics
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Molecular Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics
- PICSciE/Research Computing
- Psychology
- Religion
- School of Architecture
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- School of Public Policy and International Affairs
- University Center for Human Values
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Examples of Charges Given to Standing Academic DEI Committees
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- The goal of the committee will be to assess the Department’s climate for underrepresented groups and make recommendations in the spirit of finding best practices that ensure all members of the department feel respected, included and supported by our community. Underrepresented groups may include, but are not limited to, women, individuals of color, or members of the LGBT community. Committee membership will be drawn from within the department, comprised of two faculty, two graduate students, two staff, two postdocs and one research staff who will serve as a resource to members of the department and keep the Department Chair informed on issues discussed and suggestions made by the Committee. We anticipate that the Committee will meet four times per academic year. The Co-Chairs will meet with the Department Chair and Department Manager at least once per semester to report on Committee discussions and recommendations. The Chair’s office will keep the Committee apprised of University initiatives on areas of importance to the Committee such as training opportunities, programming or data collection and analysis.
— adapted from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringDepartment of Physics
- The goal of the committee is to assess the Department’s climate for underrepresented groups (for example, women, students of color, and members of the LGBT community) and make recommendations, in the spirit of finding best practices, on how to ensure that all members of the department feel included. The committee membership will be drawn from across the department (two faculty, two postdocs/lecturers, two graduate students, and two staff members) and serve as a conduit for getting information and suggestions to the Chair. There should be one formal report a semester in the form of a concise email sometime in the second month of classes. The Chair’s office will keep the committee apprised of the various University initiatives in areas such as unconscious bias training, bystander intervention skills, programming around graduate admissions and search committee processes, and data collection and analysis.
—adapted from the Department of Physics
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Departments with Diversity and Inclusion Statements
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- Applied and Computational Mathematics
- Astrophysical Sciences
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Computational and Information Science
- English
- History
- Lewis Center for the Arts
- Mathematics
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Medieval Studies
- Neuroscience
- Physics
- School of Public Policy and International Affairs
- Religion
- Sociology
- University Center for Human Values
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Departments with Community Expectations for Respect and Professionalism
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Departments that have Delivered Climate Surveys
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- Astrophysics
- Art and Archaeology
- Chemistry
- Classics
- East Asian Studies
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Economics
- Geosciences
- History
- Lewis Center for the Arts
- Lewis-Sigler Institute
- Math
- Physics
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute
- Psychology
- Religion