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In order to thrive at Stanford, students of marginalized identities need teachers who reflect their own experiences and teach their histories. Classrooms dominated by white, cis male professors and Western-focused curricula reproduce the social conditions that perpetuate global oppression. Race, gender, and social capital continue to define whose voices, questions, and concerns become institutional and national priorities. Stanford must engage with alternative perspectives from a wide range of social and scholarly traditions. The demands of the Who’s Teaching Us Coalition reflect the changes that should be made to the University to ensure that future generations of historically marginalized students will have a safe and inclusive learning experience during their time at Stanford; and to ensure that Stanford ceases to reflect global patterns of power, in which racial and socioeconomic injustice prevail.  

We demand that the Stanford Administration accept the Who’s Teaching Us Coalition’s complete demands in the following areas:

Faculty and Administrative Diversity
University Curriculum
Residential Life
Extracurricular Diversity Programs
Investment in Violence Against Marginalized Communities.

We expect the Administration to work in good faith to achieve these demands on the timeline that the Who’s Teaching Us Coalition has established, so that we, as students, may turn our primary focus back to what we are on campus to do—learn and grow. We will no longer accept an administration that is complacent with the status quo and we urge the University to act courageously to align its practices with its values and join Who’s Teaching Us in building a more just University and world.