BIPOC Graduate Student Support

Work of this nature is never done alone. We are immensely grateful to the following people for shaping our work. We thank all of the people and organizations listed below for every moment of challenge, support, accountability, grace, and consideration you gave The Graduate School team. Most importantly, we thank you for making the lives of UConn Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (BIPOC) better.

• The Office for Diversity and Inclusion, specifically Dr. Jonelle Reynolds and Dr. Frank Tuitt
• The Cultural Centers staff and graduate assistants
• The Office of Institutional Equity
• The Ombuds Office
• The Graduate Employee Union
• The Graduate Student Senate
• The Graduate Students of Color Association and specifically Dominique Courts (president) who encouraged us to think about material support for BIPOC students
• The graduate faculty and staff who responded to our Fall 2020 survey
• Monique Domingo, School of Business doctoral student, who encouraged us to think about the curriculum’s effect on students of color and who asked us “How?”
• Anonymous graduate students and alumni who met or emailed to give us feedback before our period of public comment
• The Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Nipmuc, and Lenape Peoples, who have stewarded the land UConn occupies
• The BIPOC faculty, students, and staff who learn and labor in white supremacist systems at our institution