Faculty & Staff Inclusion
Building a community in diversity is a core Georgetown University value embraced by the McDonough School of Business. As such, we celebrate diversity of thought and experiences across our entire community, including the faculty who teach our students and bring thought leadership to the world and our staff who support our students and propel the school and its initiatives forward.
Driving Inclusion Across McDonough
Georgetown McDonough has been intentional about its dedication to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, especially since 2020 when the Dean’s Office established committee focused on creating a culture of belonging at the school.
Examples of the accomplishments of this committee include: enhancing pipelines for the recruitment of diverse faculty, staff, and students; a review of the faulty hiring processes to address implicit bias; adding more communications efforts through storytelling and more regular touchpoints; adding diversity and inclusion topics to existing coursework and creating new core and elective courses to address diversity in the workplace; and a review of the undergraduate student club selection process to remove inequities in membership resulting in new policies.
Committee Accomplishments
One key recommendation was the establishment of a dedicated administrative position devoted to diversity and inclusion initiatives, resulting in the dean’s selection of Professor Ella Washington as the first Strategic Advisor for DEI at McDonough. She has since taken over the committee framework and refocused the group on specific task force projects, resulting in the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee and the Inclusive Student Experience Committee. Concurrently, numerous other units throughout the school continue to advance department-level initiatives.
As faculty have strived to make McDonough’s teaching more inclusive, it has partnered with experts in Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship around inclusive pedagogy and has joined the university’s LEAP program to support the development of McDonough’s Credential in Inclusive Teaching Development.
The school also has been exploring new ways to strengthen the culture of the school through community building. This has included several initiatives for staff, such as a new internal professional development conference, increased appreciation events, and an expansion of opportunities to engage in the school’s peak moments, such as working abroad with our global consulting teams.
Additionally, as members of the broader Georgetown University community, many of our staff and faculty engage in the array of Employee Resource Groups devoted to diversity and inclusion, some of which are led by McDonough team members.
Faculty and Staff Inclusion Stories
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Research and Insights
Ella F. Washington, professor of the practice at Georgetown McDonough and an organizational psychologist, has pondered and researched topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)…
August 1, 2022
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Catherine Tinsley on How Statistical Discrimination Impacts Bias in the Workplace
May 5, 2023
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Q&A with Ella Washington: Honoring Juneteenth and Recognizing the Journey to Equity and Inclusion
July 27, 2022