Roger Williams University prepares our students to be successful leaders and innovators in today’s rapidly changing world. Our distinctive focus on original research, engaged learning, and hands-on apprenticeships, practicums and clinical learning opportunities provides our students with real-world experiences, on and off campus, that empower them to be career- and job-ready, to succeed immediately and continue to advance throughout their careers. As we embed our core values and mission into every facet of RWU, we will continue to discover opportunities for interdisciplinary connections and innovative ideas that synthesize into collective action that will launch our considerable strengths in exciting, new directions. We are poised to make RWU an even more distinctive, resilient and enduring institution.
Roger Williams University
President: Ioannis Miaoulis
Signature Racial Equity Activities
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded in our Strategic Action Plan.
- The Intercultural Center creates transformative capacity building experiences for various student populations by leveraging high impact practices to close opportunity gaps and help students find success at, and beyond college.
- As an extension of Roger Williams University’s Intercultural Center, the QTRAC is the office of the University that is tasked with being the central hub for queer-centric student & employee enrichment and advocacy.
- RWU Alumni of Color Network aims to build community among alumni and students of color through initiatives that strengthen fellowship and mentorship, and support the University’s equity priorities related to the enrichment of its students and alumni of color.
- First-Gen Celebrations: RWU formally celebrates all of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni who identify – or identified – as first-generation college students with programming that provides an array of professional development and learning opportunities for first-generation learners throughout our community, and celebrate their contributions to RWU and beyond.
- Intercultural Leadership Ambassador Scholarship (ILA) recognizes, rewards and celebrates a diverse group of students, who have demonstrated academic achievement, leadership and positive contributions to their communities through a selective scholarship program for four consecutive years of undergraduate study in addition to a co-curricular program which seeks to provide mentorship and academic support while furthering the holistic and leadership growth of recipients throughout their time at RWU.
- Living/Learning Communities for Black, Latin(x), and Queer and Trans students.
- S.O.A.R (Strive, Overcome, Achieve, Rise) is a support program for first year students who are the first in their families to go to college that helps students navigate their first year at Roger Williams University and empowers students with the knowledge and tools they will need to succeed.
- Student Accessibility Services: SAS works with students, faculty, and administrators at RWU to ensure learning and living inclusiveness in all aspects of the student’s experience. We take care to promote equal opportunity for our students.
Questions?
For more information contact Racial Equity and Justice Institute (REJI) Team Lead
Joanna N. Ravello Goods, PhD, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion/Chief Diversity Officer
jravellogoods@rwu.edu
