Dear FSU Family,

As many of you know, I’ve been engaging in dialogue with students, faculty, staff, alumni and community leaders regarding recent acts of racism nationally, as well as historical racial injustices.

As a result of those conversations, in my message to you on July 6, I announced the creation of the President's Task Force on Anti-Racism, Equality & Inclusion for the 2023-2021 academic year. Today, I appointed 30 members of the university community to serve on that task force.

I am grateful to each of these individuals for agreeing to contribute their time and attention to these topics during this crucial time in the nation’s and university’s history, and I’m confident they will help the university address racial and ethnic disparities on campus and accelerate our goal to strengthen FSU’s diversity.

The task force will be led by a three-person executive committee, which I’ve asked Professor of English Maxine Montgomery to chair. This group’s work will support our efforts to advance the third goal of the university’s Strategic Plan — Realize the University’s Full Potential of Diversity and Inclusion. We’ll announce the group’s first organizational session in mid-August.

We have a long history of addressing difficult racism and inclusion issues on this campus, and we know there is still much work to do. As the nation faces great unrest and an urgent call for change, we, as a university, will continue to listen, learn and evolve.

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I’ve also asked the group to identify racial and ethnic disparities on campus and to implement a range of initiatives, such as developing mandatory diversity and inclusivity training for all campus employees and students and fostering the recruitment and retention of students, faculty and staff from underserved groups.

The task force members will produce bimonthly progress reports on actionable issues, as well as a final report at the end of the 2023-2021 academic year. As they forward me recommendations, I will consider action for each.

I’m looking forward to hearing input from the task force on a range of important items connected to racial inequity. This task force will be results-driven, and I know the work they do now — with the full support of the administration — will result in a stronger future for Florida State University.

Sincerely,

President John Thrasher

See the statement, Executive Committee Members and the Taskforce Members