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The Yale School of Management has become the latest top business school to announce new efforts against racism. 

In a letter to the community, Yale SOM dean Charles Kerwin wrote that the school was “called upon to address systemic racism, both because we are part of the larger national current and because our distinctive mission urges us to engage with pressing societal issues.”

Kerwin outlined a series of short-term and long-term actions that the school would take toward that goal.

To guide those efforts, the school is creating a Dean’s Advisory Council that includes students, alums, faculty and staff. Funding for the existing Community and Inclusion team will likewise increase.

In the short-term, the school intends to offer more inclusiveness training for faculty and create a more diverse collection of case studies, a step that Harvard Business School is similarly taking in its newly announced Action Plan for Racial Equity. 

Yale is adding a new course on systemic racism this spring that will be taught by Kerwin, whose research as an economist relates to inequality and discrimination. 

In the long-term, the school hopes to increase the Diversity of its student body. To that end, Kerwin says the school will create new scholarships, work with deans from historically black colleges, and reevaluate its admissions process.

The school also plans to prioritize diversity in its faculty hiring process and establish new resources to support Black early-career faculty. One such resources that the school is working on right now, says Kerwin, is a faculty mentorship program.

Finally, the school is looking to build new connections with its local community and create events that add to the campus discussion of racism over the coming years. 

Unveiling the new steps, Kerwin said that he had “no interest in making purely cosmetic changes,” explaining that the school was looking to “implement changes and policies that are informed, durable, and consequential.”

The announcement comes as many top B-schools, from INSEAD to HBS to Ross, are responding to recent anti-racism protests by reflecting on their policies surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion. 

At top MBA programs, that process will likely mean ensuring that the admissions process builds classes that stand out not only in terms of their resumes but in terms of the diversity of perspectives and backgrounds they bring to campus.

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