According to the report, post-orientation surveys conducted by the Student Experience Office revealed that students who don’t identify as heterosexual or come from lower-income families experience higher rates of feeling excluded during Orientation Week.
SOARB implemented an EDII working group this year to further explore topics of EDII in Orientation Week. According to Ian Garner, co-chair of SOARB, the working group will address these EDII issues through action that is “concrete and substantial.”
Garner said the working group has made a number of recommendations pertaining to communication, training opportunities, processes, and reporting/investigation procedures.
Early this summer, the committees organizing Orientation Week will be required to provide SOARB with updates on their progress on these recommendations and the points made in the report.