Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources

If you’d like to support our DEI work. We currently have one giving option available to the community at large. The Blue and Gold Fund provides resources to ensure every Spalding student can access an exceptional education. The public may suggest DEI initiatives through our general DEI inquiry form. Stay tuned for additional opportunities as we identify and develop more DEI initiatives.

We released a statement in support of protestors on June 1, 2020, outlining our ongoing work in the name of social justice and improving policing. In addition, we believe statements can only do so much and don’t hold institutions accountable. We prefer to do the work rather than remain in a performative cycle of releasing public statements. Our legacy demonstrates this call to action.

Currently, we have the Black Student Alliance, Sexuality and Gender Acceptance (SAGA), Spalding University Multicultural Psychology Association (SUMPA), and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority – Tau Rho Chapter.

The Black Student Alliance is an organization dedicated to creating a safe space for minority students on Spalding’s campus; through focusing on Pan-Africanism, historical recovery and the Black experience in the United States.

Spalding’s Sexuality and Gender Acceptance group exists to provide a safe and supportive environment for LGBTQ+ students and their allies.

SUMPA is a professional academic organization dedicated to advancing multicultural awareness through research, scholarship, and community outreach. The group promotes learning, growth, acceptance, and cultural competency in professional psychology and the community at large. We are concerned with the welfare and psychological health of persons of color, LGBTQ individuals, people living in poverty, women and children, and other groups who are marginalized due to their identity.

The Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is organized on the precepts of scholarship, service, sisterly love and finer womanhood.

We have one of the highest Campus Pride Index ratings for Catholic universities and continue to expand our offerings to increase public awareness and support of LGBT issues.

Spalding University, an institution of higher education with a strong liberal arts tradition, supports open dialogue on political issues. The University reserves the right to support or oppose issues that affect its values, welfare, the University itself, and/or values and welfare of higher education. The University encourages its faculty, staff, trustees, students and recognized campus organizations to participate actively in political activities on an individual basis. The policies of Spalding University do not restrict the rights and privileges of faculty, staff, students, and recognized campus organizations to express their opinions freely. The University is committed to preserving and encouraging a diversity of point of view and political opinion.

Political activities on campus must be conducted in a neutral and nonpartisan manner, and in furtherance of the organization’s legitimate exempt function (education).