DEI Strategic Plan
Belonging. Building. Becoming.
Launched in June 2021, Lawrenceville’s DEI Strategic Plan: Belonging. Building. Becoming. solidifies our commitment to ensuring that our diverse and uniquely close-knit community is fully equitable, and inclusive for all.
Goals and Progress
Outlined below are our strategic goals and the action steps needed to achieve them. You'll be able to see whether these steps are:
In Planning (long term, 12-24 months)
In Progress (short term, 8-18 months)
Complete (immediate, 0-6 months)
Ongoing (will continue indefinitely)
This progress dashboard will be updated quarterly and is accurate as of June 2023.
Belonging
Our diversity is our strength: the broad range of experiences, identities, and perspectives, in both students and adults, enriches and enlivens our community. But diversity alone is not enough. Every individual deserves a seat at the table; every individual should feel known, cared for, valued, and connected — a part of the whole. Through orientation programs, leadership training, careful mentorship, and purposeful House culture, every student will feel unconditionally a Lawrentian, from the moment of arrival on campus and for a lifetime.
Goals and Progress
- Develop employee resource groups committed to making DEI an institutional priority and responsible for strategic and operational initiatives.
- Cultivate an inclusive climate that champions DEI — including race, socio-economic background, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, language, and national origin.
- Develop a culture where community members feel welcome, valued, and a sense of belonging.
Develop employee resource groups committed to making DEI an institutional priority and responsible for strategic and operational initiatives.
Cultivate an inclusive climate that champions DEI — including race, socio-economic background, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, language, and national origin.
Develop a culture where community members feel welcome, valued, and a sense of belonging.
Building
The fundamental expectation of inclusion in a Harkness classroom is an enduring Lawrenceville value and provides the foundation upon which we develop programs, policies, and practices that draw us together. Through active recruitment and purposeful retention, our adult community — faculty and staff — will mirror and better support the diversity of our student body, and we will create spaces for innovation, experimentation, scholarship, and engaged social activism where Lawrentians work collaboratively to build our beloved community proactively, not reactively.
Goals and Progress
Becoming
Great schools are aspirational and transformational. Our teachers nurture and cultivate learners who are reflective and curious, open to new ideas, and hungry for lifelong growth. The educational experiences we design invite community members to work collaboratively across a broad range of cultural traditions and identities in a spirit of mutual respect, humility, and expanded understanding. Having lived in and helped shape a community built on this respect and understanding, our graduates take the faith and belief in this possibility out into the world as agents of positive change and, with their confident voices and principled minds, confront the important challenges of their time.
Goals and Progress
- Ensure that academic and residential curricula reflect a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Create training opportunities and DEI awareness programs for all community members.
- Develop strategic touchpoints with students, parents, faculty, staff, and alumni through multiple communications platforms in an effort to both educate and inform.
Ensure that academic and residential curricula reflect a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Create training opportunities and DEI awareness programs for all community members.
Develop strategic touchpoints with students, parents, faculty, staff, and alumni through multiple communications platforms in an effort to both educate and inform.
