Anti-Racism Task Force

In June 2020, President Emerita Janet Napolitano convened the UCOP Anti-Racism Task Force. The Task Force was charged with considering how best to advance the Office of the President at all its locations toward the full embodiment of its values so that it is consistently fair, equitable and anti-racist in its behaviors, policies, practices and structures.

Recommendations were presented by the Anti-Racism Task Force to President Michael V. Drake in December 2020 and were formally approved by March 2021. In the UCOP Anti-Racism Task Force Report, the task force proposed a five-year implementation strategy to ensure long-term, sustainable change that fosters a more inclusive workplace. Much of the work is in the process of being transferred to functional owners.

Past and present ARTF implementation (ARTFI) workstream leads provided an update on their work, including goals, accomplishments and next steps at the March 2023 UCOP EDI Town Hall.

The next step to continue the ARTFI work was to identify and adopt equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) priorities and metrics for success and integrate them across all UCOP divisions. This work was led by the UCOP EDI & Anti-Racism Advisory Group. Established in November 2022, this group was charged with the development of a unified EDI framework including UCOP goals that were approved in November 2023. With the completion of this charge, the Advisory Group was dismantled in December 2023.