THE YEAR IN DEI

In the business world, when we try to solve a challenge, we often start with analysis. We seek input from experts and from the people affected by the challenge. We collaborate. We develop a strategy.

But at a certain point, we make a move from strategy to execution. The spotlight shifts to operations and accountability. This is where we, as Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, find ourselves in our work on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

After years of individual and grassroots efforts in DEI, we launched a strategic effort in 2020 with the Dean’s Office Committee on DEI, and the work has expanded from there. With critical input from that committee, we identified a structural framework for expanding and improving everything from the composition of students, faculty, and staff to the very way we teach (see page 6), and then we set about the work of enacting that framework over the past two academic years.

You are reading the second-ever DEI report from McDonough. It includes data that show both progress and room for further improvement. It also includes stories that illustrate the way central support and distributed responsibility help an effort like this take off. With help from faculty, staff, and students, we’ve tackled everything from increased transparency in communication to pilot programs on issues from student hiring to student club leadership. This report is part of our effort to hold ourselves accountable for improving the culture at Georgetown McDonough. If you want to assist in that effort, you’ll find ways to do so on page 15. We hope you’ll join us on what Professor Ella F. Washington refers to as “the necessary journey”, and we hope you’ll help us take our next steps.

Sincerely,

Patricia Grant, Co-Chair of DEI Committee Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program

Michael O’Leary, Co-Chair of DEI Committee Senior Associate Dean, Graduate and Executive Degree Programs

1 The Year in DEI

2 DEI by the Numbers

6 The 7 Cs of DEI

8 Work in Progress

10 A Place to Thrive

12 A Model for Hiring

13 The Foundation for First-Gen Students

14 Economic Empowerment Meets Mental Health

15 How to Get Involved

16 2021–2022 Committee on DEI