Williams College

Our Mission The Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Williams College dedicates itself to a community where all members can thrive. We work to eliminate harmful bias and discrimination, close opportunity gaps, and advance critical conversations and initiatives that promote inclusion, equity, and social justice on campus and beyond. LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT We respectfully acknowledge that Williams College stands on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, who are the Indigenous peoples of the region now called Williamstown. Following tremendous hardship after being forced from their valued homelands, they continued as a sovereign Tribal Nation in Wisconsin, which is where they reside today. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all. **What We Do** **The Office** The Vice President’s Office works to assess and improve campus climate, helps lead the development and implementation of campus policies, procedures and practices impacting students, faculty and staff, develops and supports efforts to recruit, retain and develop a diverse faculty, staff and student body, facilitates discussions around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the community, and resolves conflicts and grievances. The [Davis Center (DC)](http://daviscenter.williams.edu/) advances broad campus engagement with complex issues of identity, history, and cultures as they affect intellectual, creative, and social life. [Pathways for Inclusive Excellence (PIE)](https://osap.williams.edu/) aims to ensure all students thrive academically at Williams and beyond through opportunities and programs that work to eradicate racial and socio-economic disparities in higher education. We partner with stakeholders on and off campus to: - Create positive work and learning environments; - Recruit, develop, and retain a diverse faculty, staff, and student body; - Ensure that all students, faculty, staff, and alumni—particularly those who are from historically underrepresented or underserved groups—have meaningful access to all that Williams has to offer, tangible and intangible; - Resolve conflicts and grievances \[including discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct complaints\] through investigation and mediation; - Assess institutional policies and practices and promote change where needed; - Facilitate local and (inter)national discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion; - Contribute to the transformation of higher education.