Diversity Resources

The Office of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion serves as a resource to students, staff, faculty, and community members alike. Our office oversees several groups whose missions include creating a more diverse, open, inclusive, accepting, equitable and affirming campus environment. The organizations that have a direct reporting line to the ODEI are below.

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• Diversity Advisory Council (DAC)
• Council for Diversity and Social Justice (CDSJ)
• Diversity Advisors
• Student Organizations
• Students with Disabilities

Diversity Advisory Council (DAC)

Composed of faculty members, administrators, and students, the Diversity Advisory Council (DAC) meets throughout the academic year to assess the state of diversity at Kenyon. Underlying the council’s work is a commitment to fostering a campus environment where all individuals, whatever their origin or intended destination, can pursue personal and intellectual goals. Find out more about the DAC.

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Council for Diversity and Social Justice (CDSJ)

The Council for Diversity and Social Justice is a coalition of student leaders from Kenyon’s multicultural organizations. This council serves as a bridge between the student organizations and departments within it, a network for student leaders who seek to cultivate respectful tolerance, combat social injustice, and address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Kenyon. We are a unified front of diverse, multicultural, and ethnic groups on campus.  Collectively, we will be able to achieve what may otherwise have been difficult for us to achieve by ourselves. Please contact Chris Kennerly (kennerlyc@kenyon.edu)  or/and Monica Garcia Blizzard (garciablizzardm@kenyon.edu) with any questions about the CDSJ.

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Diversity Advisors

Diversity advisors are a group of students, faculty and staff who have received training to informally assist with cases of group-based discriminatory harassment. They are passionate about the value of difference in all forms on Kenyon’s campus and about challenging any form of discrimination or oppression based on a person’s race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, nationality, physical/mental ability, religion or socio-economic background. Please contact Chris Kennerly (kennerlyc@kenyon.edu) or a DA for more information about the program.

Unlike peer counselors and sexual misconduct advisors, diversity advisors do not have confidentiality in Title IX cases and must report incidents of sexual misconduct. Any person who believes that they are a victim of discriminatory harassment should consider bringing the situation to the attention of one of the DAs or contacting Civil Rights/Title IX Coordinator Samantha Hughes at (740) 427-5820 or hughess@kenyon.edu.

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Student Organizations

Throughout the year, the ODEI regularly collaborates with diverse student organizations on cultural, awareness, and celebratory month/events that the office oversees, such as LGBTQ Awareness, Women’s History, Black History, Native American Heritage, Latino Heritage, etc.   These groups fill the calendar with performances, lectures, dinners, discussions, and festivals.

Please visit the webpage of the Student Activities Office for a comprehensive list of ethnic/cultural organizations or search the database of student clubs and organizations.

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Students with Disabilities

Student Accessibility Support Services (SASS) coordinates the provision of academic accommodations for students with disabilities. All accommodations are individualized, confidential and based upon both the nature of the disability and the demands of the academic environment.  To find out more about accommodations, visit their page.

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