2021-22 Highlights

Burying Ground Memorial
The University of Richmond is working toward a permanent memorial to honor the enslaved burying ground on the land that became this campus.
Community Dialogue Facilitation Network
The Community Dialogue Facilitation Network (CDFN) develops our campus’s collective capability to engage productively in difficult conversations by training UR students, staff, and faculty in the use of equity-minded group facilitation skills. Spring cohort applications are now being accepted.Report a Bias Incident

Distributed Leadership
At Richmond, we are advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) through a collaborative, shared leadership approach we refer to as distributed leadership. Put simply, responsibility for attending to DEIB work at UR does not fall to a single person. It takes all of us, working together intentionally and urgently.
Recent Progress Toward Goals
Representation
UR will meet the full demonstrated financial need of students with grant aid, not loans, if they enter UR directly from Richmond Public Schools, CODE RVA Regional High School, and the Maggie Walker School. Learn more.
Belonging
In responses to student interest, the University of Richmond faculty voted to create a new Africana Studies Program. Africana Studies is an academic concentration that critically examines the African diaspora from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Capability
The Community Dialogue Facilitation Network (CDFN), now in its second year at UR, develops our campus's collective capability to engage productively in difficult conversations by training UR students, staff, and faculty in the use of equity-minded group facilitation skills.
Featured Stories
The Associated Colleges of the South has awarded funding to the University of Richmond for the collaborative faculty-focused project, "Facilitating Constructive Dialogue in a Challenging World."
Keith “Mac” McIntosh, vice president for information services, received the 2022 EDUCAUSE DEI Leadership Award.