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New Responses to Strike Demands
From President Raymond

Published on November 7, 2020 — in Haverford/News — by The BiCollege News

Editor’s note: on November 6, President Wendy Raymond sent Haverford students an email containing her
revised list of responses to the demands of the strike organizers. They di er from her original response in
scope and depth. For readability, some extraneous material has been omitted from this document. The
administration’s full responses, including responsible groups, timelines, budgets, and progress for each
item, may be viewed on the “Anti-Racism Commitments and Strike Responses 2.0” spreadsheet.

Demand 1
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Demand 1A: “We demand that Haverford College return
institutional land back to Native nations.”
Administration response: No. “The College cannot return
institutional land without ceasing its educational mission as
currently realized.”

Demand 1B: “If institutional land cannot be returned to Native
nations, Haverford College should provide free higher
education to Native students on their traditional homelands as
landbased reparations. […] Establish a reparations program for
any descendents of Native Peoples original to Pennsylvania
state territories. […] Announce that any individual Lenape
individual or descendant of Native Peoples original to PA state
territories heritage will be given preferential admission
consideration. Upon admission, said individuals will receive a
full-tuition scholarship, including room and board.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “The O ce of
Admission will strengthen recruitment and enrollment of
Native peoples [and] establish a formal relationship with
College Horizons, a nationally-known organization supporting
Native students in their path to higher education. The O ce of
Admission will articulate admission preference for students
from the Lenni-Lenape nation and students descending from
Native peoples original to Pennsylvania state territories.”

Demand 1D [sic]: “The College continues to profit o of the
romanticized story of the Penn Treaty Elm in their admissions
programming and through on-campus tours.”
Administration response: Yes. “The College will ensure that
programming and materials reflect the appropriate context
about the Penn Treaty Elm (and its romanticized narrative),
including a new plaque at the base of the tree.”

Demand 1E: [Indigenous Communities]
Administration response: “We will formalize a Land
Acknowledgment for Haverford College, to be included on our
website, in formal College materials, and during College events,
and will explore avenues for dialogue with the Lenape and
other indigenous communities.”

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Demand 2
Demand 2A: “We demand removal of President Raymond as
“Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”
Administration response: Yes. “As of 11/6, President Raymond
stepped down as CDO”

Demand 2B: “Haverford must, instead, hire a BIPOC Chief
Diversity O cer—vetted by students and faculty of color on
campus—who is committed to their interests rather than the
college’s.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “President Raymond
will convene by December 1 a CDO Advisory Group of students,
faculty, and sta to recommend the best way forward for a CDO
structure for Haverford. This will include budget and
organizational support, and how to fill that role at Haverford,
with the goal of appointing a new CDO or instituting a model
that does not include a CDO (e.g., DEI Council) e ective no later
than July 1, 2021.”

Demand 2C: “We…ask that you release a public apology for
self-appointing yourself for [the CDO] role as a white woman.
[…] We request that rather than appointing another Chief of DEI
without any student feedback, that the position remain unfilled
until proper student consultation has been taken into account.”
Administration response: No. “We need an interim CDO to
continue institutional progress. Provost Linda Strong-Leek will
serve as interim CDO for about one month, with a plan to move
to an interim co-CDO structure, that is two people sharing the
CDO responsibility, as of December 1. The second person will be
a sta member of color currently in the Dean’s O ce, with the
intentional design of having these individuals in academics and
student life. White individuals have seen demonstrated success
serving as CDOs; President Raymond’s interim service does not
merit an apology.”

Demand 2D: “The students on this advisory group should be
included in the decision making process as to who is hired. The
same committee of students that will be in charge of hiring the
Chief of DEI will be tasked with implementing the funding
approved for this position.”
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Administration response: Yes, qualified. “Students would be in
any CDO search committee. Specific structures and individuals
selected will be recommended by the CDO Advisory Group
which will include students.”

Demand 3
Demand 3: “We demand that you follow in the footsteps of
Swarthmore College and cancel classes on Election Day and
provide paid leave for college employees.”
Administration response: Yes. “Classes were canceled, sta
were given the day o , and hourly (non-exempt) sta who
worked on Tuesday, November 3, were paid ‘holiday pay.’”

Demand 4
Demand 4A: “We demand academic leniency for BIPOC and/or
FGLI students who are traumatized by the e ects of COVID and
constant police violence in their communities”
Administration response: Yes. “[The Educational Policy
Committee] has agreed to the P/F model from the spring for all
students for the fall. Deans and faculty will consider impacts
while teaching and guiding students.”

Demand 4B: “We ask that you give full transparency to the
community on the actions of reform taken by [the Faculty
A airs and Planning Committee] and [the Committee on
Student Standings and Programs]… Openly admit that the CSSP
put people on academic warning as a result of the Spring
semester and acknowledge that the decision does not reflect
trust, concern and respect immediately. “
Administration response: Yes. “CSSP…drafted a letter to the
community that will be sent Nov 7 acknowledging that CSSP is
part of the problem and needs reform. By Nov. 20, we will
clarify all procedures used by CSSP in all 2020-21 student
reviews and outline a series of reforms to CSSP that will happen
during the 2020-21 academic year. For Fall 2020, we will have
full transparency in our processes. CSSP is working to reform
the outdated language related to academic warnings, such as
that academic warning will be replaced by “academic support”
or similar term.”
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Demand 4C: “Put in place a framework within CSSP to allow
Academic Flexibility Petition or a similar petition for
unforeseen events or trauma. […] Provide guidelines to
counselors with CAPS to encourage and assist students
throughout this process [and] have them work with their
dean…to develop an academic plan related to their specific
situation.”
Administration response: Yes. “Right now, CSSP has only one
of three students appointed to the committee, so CSSP is
reluctant to make substantial changes without the full student
persepctive [sic] throughout the process. CSSP is willing to
speak with other students about this.”

Demand 5
Demand 5: “We demand that the school encourage and protect
student participation in supporting direct action […] in the
abolition work done by activists on and o campus.”
Administration response: Yes. “The College supports students
in living out their values with integrity. I want Haverford to be a
place that encourages and supports students to act on their
values in service of a more just world, and that includes
through direct action.”

Demand 5A: “Providing institutional funding to mutual aid
networks within the Bi-Co community and broader
Philadelphia.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “As a charitable
organization, the College does not provide direct philanthropic
support to other organizations. The College would be interested
to have students, faculty, and sta who engage with mutual aid
networks…relating to student curricular or co-curricular
learning…develop specific proposals for bilateral relationships
that could include funding dimensions. Such an initiative could
receive financial support from a standing department or center,
or use discretionary funding. See centrally CPGC funding
possibilities.”

Demand 5B: “Opening up unused campus resources to directly
support impacted communities in West Philadelphia.”
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Administration response: Yes, qualified. “The CPGC has
recently piloted programs that invest directly into communities
through remunerating community-based educators, leaders,
activists, and nonprofits. CPGC will develop a report on the
ways in which their funding supports community organizations
and students and to identify new opportunities to advance
social justice, consistent with the values articulated in the
demands.”

Demand 5C: “Ensuring students who participate in direct
action will not be punished for going o campus, but rather set
structures in place like expedited COVID-19 testing, sanitation,
self-isolation, and quarantine.”
Administration response: Yes. “The College has been providing
—and will continue to provide—necessary health-supporting
measures for students who engage in protest, including
COVID-19 testing and campus isolation spaces. There will be no
disciplinary consequences from the College for students
engaging in protests provided they meet the College’s health
and safety guidelines, including the Travel Policy.”

Demand 5D: “Explicitly naming white supremacist groups and
police forces as chief contributors of violence at protests rather
than spreading anti-Black tropes of outside agitators that
undermine protests against police violence.”
Administration response: Yes. “Done, in Nov 2.
communication: ‘I a rm students’ right to protest as called by
their consciences, and I understand that students undertake
such acts knowing the risks that have been demonstrated
around the country where white supremacist groups and police
have escalated tensions and promoted—directly and indirectly
—violent outcomes.’”

Demand 5E: “To the Board of Managers, we ask that you
commit to opening institutional funds to student groups who
are providing needed resources to students in the Bi-Co and
residents in Philadelphia (an example being Bi-Co Mutual
Aid).”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “The Board of
Managers a rms the commitments above from the president
and realized relevant campus departments.”
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Demand 6
Demand 6A: “We demand the institution recognize and resolve
that the increased surveillance and policing amongst students
in regards to COVID-19 primarily a ects students of color, who
have always been more prominently surveilled by the campus
community.”
Administration response: Yes. “The College is committed to
ensuring that its own processes are free from, and have zero
tolerance for, bias and will investigate and follow up on any
specific concerns and/or issues raised about surveillance or
policing of the campus BIPOC community. Students may
submit concerns or suggestions via their dean or, if they wish
to remain anonymous, through the web-based tip line. I have
asked my colleagues in the Operations Planning Group to
evaluate and revise our monitoring and response systems
around student health and safety so we will be better able to
understand the extent and nature of any patterns of bias and
then address them. Based on this work, the OPG will produce a
detailed report that will be made available to the entire
campus.”

Demand 6B: “We expect the college will make Covid-19
reporting data publicly available by Thanksgiving Break.”
Administration response: Yes. “This data will be anonymized to
protect the identities of indidviduals [sic].”

Demand 6C: “We also expect the Director of Campus Safety to
order o cers to end profiling only Black residents of Ardmore
and preventing [sic] them from using the campus while White
residents are given the benefit of the doubt.”
Administration response: Yes. “Racial profiling of any kind—of
members of our campus community or otherwise—is and has
been unacceptable and against current policy. This explicit
message is and will be conveyed during on-boarding of new
o cers and reinforced through continuing education
programming annually in January.”

Demand 6D: “BIPOC students have been ‘carded’ to prove they
are a student. This practice must end immediately, and should
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Campus Safety o

cers refuse to comply, they must be removed

e ective immediately.”
Administration response: Yes. “The College will convene a
group of students, faculty, and sta to review procedures
regarding asking students for identification. Campus Safety will
develop a mechanism whereby incidents of asking for ID will be
compiled. This data will inform e orts to guard against racial
profiling.”

Demand 7
Demand 7A: “We demand Haverford honor and credit the work
of Black women driving institutional change instead of taking
credit for their continued labor and erasing their contributions.
This includes the work from BSRFI, BSL, ALAS, SWOL, SALT,
and AOCC.”
Administration response: Yes. “President Raymond recognizes
the extraordinary e orts and commitment to antiracism on the
part of Black women and Trans people across the Haverford
community and pledges to be attentive and appropriately
generous in acknowledging the work of others in all of our
collaborations, and expects the same of faculty and sta
colleagues.”

Demand 7B: “You need to directly collaborate with Haverford
library archivists to ensure institutional memory exists. A
project timeline must be set no later than December 18, 2020
and a set digital archive must be in existence by the end of the
academic year.”
Administration response: Yes. “The Libraries and Archives are
actively working with the Multicultural Alumni Action Group
(MAAG), Alumni A airs, the community, and specifically with
BIPOC student-colleagues to more fully illuminate the work of
these individuals and, further, to correct and address absences
where the records of that work are less evident. Further,
Archives is actively collecting and documenting the strike will
make that digital archive available at the end of the academic
year. Archives invites strike organizers to capture all they are
doing via social media outlets and transfer those records to us
at the end of the strike for the digital archive.”

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Demand 8
Demand 8A [1]: “We demand that the school creates a
framework to deal with problematic professors and generates
spaces of accountability.”
Administration response: Yes. “FAPC is willing to commit to
the students’ timeline of 1/29/2021. FAPC will be developing a
statement to that e ect and seeking faculty feedback on it
immediately, and will bring it to the floor of the emergency
faculty meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 11, 2020.”

Demand 8A [2]: “A body will be formed to receive these
reports, elected entirely by the student body and composed of
50% students, 25% faculty, and 25% administrators. Students
will be compensated for this work. This body will not be
punitive, but will instead communicate concerns to a given
professor, make concrete recommendations, and provide
resources for how they might change their thinking/behavior
moving forward. Should there be multiple reports across
multiple semesters, however, with few changes on the
professor’s behalf, a formal report will be made to the provost,
(new) diversity o cer, and department head for that professor.
In addition to receiving and reviewing reports, this body will
also conduct anonymous course feedback at the end of each
quarter with questions specifically asking about the inclusive
nature of each Haverford course. A summary of the feedback
will then be given to each professor, and they will address any
concerns with their class.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “Please see details
above. Faculty are working with FAPC on a process that will
make more transparent and update methods for engaging with
“problematic faculty.” Please see the information above
regarding FAPC’s timeline, which includes disucssion [sic] at
the Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Faculty Meeting.”

Demand 8B [1]: “We also demand adequate support and
protection for both tenure-track and contingent faculty of
color, whose expertise is often minimized or ignored and
whose labor is exploited.”
Administration response: Yes. “The Provost commits to
providing support for both tenure-track and contingent faculty
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of color. The Provost will meet with tenure-track and
contingent faculty of color collectively and individally [sic] to
understand their specific needs as they navigate the
reappointment and promotion process.”

Demand 8B [2]: “We demand…the reevaluation of tenure and
promotion guidelines to center the specific and exceptional
kind of work done by BIPOC faculty.”
Administration response: Yes. “Academic Council will continue
discussions about reevaluating the tenure and promotion
criteria to include all ‘shadow work’ and other non-traditional
forms of scholarship. This work must take place within faculty
governance as only faculty can alter the tenure and promotion
processes.”

Demand 9
Demand 9A: “We demand that the school continue to pay the
students who are participating in the strike.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “Student workers who
elect not to work will be eligible to receive up to 20 hours of
compensation for scheduled but lost work. […] The 20 hours of
compensation is not limited to a finite timeframe within the
strike, but students will not receive compensation for more
than 20 hours that they did not work.”

Demand 9B: “Our supervisors should not be pressuring us to
return to work during this time.”
Administration response: Yes. “Supervisors will accommodate
students who choose not to work, with no questions asked.”

Demand 9C: “POC sta , especially in the Dining Center,
Facilities, and the Coop, should be paid overtime for the
duration of the strike.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “The College will
continue to pay overtime rates to all hourly employees who
work overtime during the strike or otherwise, consistent with
state and federal law.”

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Demand 10
Demand 10A: “We demand that no student, sta or faculty
partaking in the strike face financial, academic or professional
retribution, or penalties of any kind.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “Professors have
discretion about whether and how to accommodate striking
students in their individual courses. […] In the event that
individuals fall short of our health, safety, educational, or other
rules and guidelines, the College pursues remedies that seek to
address the concern within a humane and restorative
framework.”

Demand 10B: “We need a firm commitment—not up to
individual faculty…that students who have been participating in
the strike will not receive ANY academic penalties.”
Administration response: No. “Many faculty are working to
accomodate students, and EPC has agreed to a pass/fail model
for Fall 2020 that mirrors that process for Spring 2020.
Students may take a pass/fail in any class this fall with the
option to uncover the grade, which should alleviate the worry
of grades or retaliation. Individual faculty do have final
authority over whether or not they forgive or provide alternate
assignments for striking students as a consequence of their
decision to strike.”

Demand 11
Demand 11: “Through purported academic rigor, the
weaponization of academic forced leave, a wheelchair
unfriendly campus, and inaccessible, white-dominated mental
health services, disabled students are continuously pushed out
of our community. Many BIPOC students who are disabled,
impaired, and/or neurodivergent face violence from professors,
administrators, and CAPS faculty.”
Administration response: N/A. “Access & Disability Services
(ADS), Facilities, Counseling and Psychological Services
(CAPS), and other departments will be key partners in making
tangible change in support of disabled students. ADS and
Facilities conducted an accessibility deficiency survey of our
campus and have been making annual investments in
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accessibility based on the survey’s recommendations. There is
more work to be done. Facilities and ADS will coordinate to
make additional priority improvements to the physical
accessibility of campus next year.”

Demand 11A [1]: “A more representative CAPS sta , whose
practice is informed by the racial and economic origins of
mental illness and the acknowledgment of structural
disparities in diagnoses and healing services.”
Administration response: Yes. “CAPS will foreground the
priority of reflecting our diverse student body in its current
search for a senior CAPS sta

member and in its ongoing

selection of trainees.”

Demand 11A [2]: “By the beginning of the Fall 2021 semester,
the entire center must begin recurring ‘culturally responsive
therapy’ or similar training and consultations.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified “CAPS will convene
conversations with students about the changes they are seeking
and how best to pursue them in order to co-create an optimal
approach.”

Demand 11A [3]: “By the beginning of the Spring 2021
semester, the college should place paid student representatives
on the hiring committee for CAPS counselors and increase
transparency between students and administration through
every step of the CAPS hiring process.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “Students will be
invited to serve on search committees in CAPS but will not be
compensated for this voluntary role. Student reps on the
committee will be able to share relavant [sic] (nonconfidential) information about the hiring process.”

Demand 11B [1]: “The abolition of mandated reporting of
mental health details to police, CPS, and/or administrative
authorities.”
Administration response: No. “Pennsylvania licensing laws
require CAPS sta

to be ‘mandated reporters’ for issues

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information if there is clear and present danger to self and/or
others. Within these strictures, CAPS will only report when
absolutely necessary and, whenever possible, with students’
consent.”

Demand 11B [2]: “By Spring semester 2021, specific guidelines
for what is subject to mandated reporting at Haverford College
should be publicized. There should be separate workshops for
both mandated reporters and students on what mandatory
reporting entails to prevent overreporting and reporting
without consent. Students should be informed of their right to
use hypotheticals to avoid mandatory reporting. Students
should always be given 24 hours (or more) of prior notice
before a report is made.”
Administration response: Yes. “Information about mandated
reporting will be made available through a variety of channels
and formats.”

Demand 11C [1]: “No requirements for verification or
documentation from “a licensed professional” for academic
and housing accommodations as this is exclusionary to lowincome, BIPOC students.”
Administration response: No. “ADS considers each student’s
history, experience, and accommodation request. While
students are a vital source of information, some
accommodations legally require documentation. If providing
documentation is a financial hardship, ADS works with the
student to help fund testing, if testing is necessary, and/or
assist in finding a health care professional for an
appointment/evaluation.”

Demand 11C [2]: “Haverford should provide completely free
access to diagnostic assessments and subsequently necessary
resources for those seeking accommodations, from a health
service provider of the students choice beginning Spring 2021.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “If providing
documentation is a financial hardship, ADS works with the
student to help fund testing, if testing is necessary, and/or
assist in finding a health care professional for an
appointment/evaluation.”

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Demand 11C [3]: “Accommodations should be provided to lowincome and BIPOC students by increasing accessibility on
campus across the board by the beginning of Fall semester
2021. This acknowledgement should look like but is not limited
to:
Free, regular, wheelchair-accessible transportation from
the apartments to up-campus.
Less strict attendance policies and leniency for late
assignments. This could be implemented by including
mental health as a legitimate reason for absence or
lateness.
Increased transparency of the results of the accessibility
deficiency surveys.
Requirement of content warnings from professors for
readings that include anti-Blackness, slavery, r*pe, abuse,
fatphobia, etc. and generally more [Accessible Educational
Materials].
The widespread initiation of programming related to
disability culture on campus.
Scholarships specifically for disabled people that aren’t
determined by GPA.
Financial support for a completely student-run Project
LETS chapter on campus.
“For further demands see SWDCC SUA’s demands.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “This a wide array of
new demands that individually need more time and
conversation. […] We wish to assess and partner with a wide
variety of BIPOC and FGLI students across all communities and
identities, as well as o ces and groups, to bring more access,
diverse programming, workshops to the campus.”

Demand 11D [1]: “Consequences for professors who neglect
necessary accommodations for students.”
Administration response: Yes. “Faculty are required to
implement the accommodations identified in a student’s
accommodation letter. […] If a student prefers not to speak
directly with a professor on their own, ADS can assist in
notifying professors of a student’s accommodations and/or
meet with students and their professor to discuss
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accountability for faculty who provide inadequate attention to
this responsibility.”

Demand 11D [2]: “There should be an increase in consideration
for accessibility by all Haverford professors. This should be
encouraged by a recurring faculty training led by experts who
embody the diversity of experience held within the disability
community beginning Fall semester 2021.”
Administration response: Yes. “The Provost’s O

ce commits

to providing training for faculty led by experts who embody the
diversity of the disability community by Fall semester 2021.”

Demand 11E [1]: “Campus Safety should never be called during
a mental health crisis, unless the student expressly consented
prior.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “CAPS will review the
use of Campus Safety during mental health emergencies and
explore alternatives to ensure that students are able to access
the on-call counseling services they need, in a safe way.”

Demand 11E [2]: “The college shall create a crisis intervention
team composed of professional counselors, rather than law
enforcement or campus safety.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “In consultation with
CAPS, we commit to a review of policy with an eye toward
redesigning the response team structure, providing appropriate
training so that every first responder has the appropriate
understanding of crisis intervention that makes the hando
the Counselor-on-Call better for students.”

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Demand 12
Demand 12: “We demand more robust aid and support for
queer and trans students of color.”
Administration response: Yes. “A Task Force on Retention and
Persistence, with leadership from Associate Director of
Institutional Research Kevin Iglesias and Professors Matt
McKeever and Ben Le, is in the midst of a detailed study of
student experiences, including BIPOC and LGBTQ+ students, in
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order to identify causes of student attrition and ways Haverford
can better support thriving.”

Demand 12A: “An increase of LGBTQ+ CAPS therapists.”
Administration response: Yes. “Consistent with (11 A 10/29)
above, CAPS will prioritize the identification of candidates with
demonstrated successes in support of LGBTQ+ clients in its
current and future hiring processes in order to better reflect the
needs of the student body.”

Demand 12B: “Reserve hours for LGBTQ+ students with said
therapists should be instituted by no later than Thanksgiving
break.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “CAPS will explore the
recommendation to reserve specific hours for LGBTQ+
identified students and other strategies to ensure that CAPS
meets LGBTQ+ students’ needs. Additionally, we will
immediately provide new, ongoing financial support to enable
BIPOC and LGBTQ+ students to access therapeutic practices o
campus with diverse professionals.”

Demand 12B: “We approve of the measures taken to allow
students to visit o -campus therapists, and the details of this
must be outlined and implemented by the start of the Spring
2021 semester, no later than February 1, 2021. There must also
be steps taken to ensure that the counselors who specialize in
counseling LGBTQ+ clients and BIPOC clients are included in
this network.”
Administration response: Yes. “CAPS o ers a list of practices
and their specialties, which includes LGBTQ+ clients, to help
students identify therapist that meet their criteria. Students
will not be limited to practitioners on the list if they wish to
utilize a di erent therapist.”

Demand 12C [1]: “Holding both professors and Committee on
Student Standing and Programs (CSSP) accountable to
providing academic leniency when students come forward
about working through trauma.”

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Administration response: Yes. “The College will support
students working through trauma. In cases when an
accommodation is legally documented, it will fall under the
framework discussed in (11C 10/29) above. In other cases, the
work described in (4A 10/29) above about mechanisms to
support students’ academic work under extenuating
circumstances will apply.”

Demand 12C [2]: “You need to provide immediate updates from
the Education Policy Committee, and work more closely with
FAPC to remove barriers for faculty in changing their
curriculum towards these goals, relay, and provide a detailed
plan with organizers by no later than Thanksgiving.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “The Dean of the
College will work with and CSSP, who will work more closely
with FAPC to create a proposal to e ect pedagogical change.”

Demand 12D: “Provide an alternative or concrete reform to
Haverford’s Title IX procedure that does not include policing.”
Administration response: Yes. “This summer, our new BiCo
Title IX Coordinator developed and implemented a new
comprehensive Sexual Misconduct Policy that applies to
students, faculty, and sta . This policy and the accompanying
procedures provide multiple options for addressing and
resolving complaints, including an
alternative resolution option. The College is committed to
equitable treatment for any community member who has
experienced sexual misconduct or gender-based
discrimination. Our BiCo Title IX Coordinator is available to
meet with students to further understand concerns about
policing, and will facilitate a Zoom session with the Director of
Campus Safety early in the spring semester on the topic of
concerns about policing with regards to Title IX, policing, and
BIPOC/LGTBQ+ students.”

Demand 12E: “Annual CAPS survey sent out to students who
access CAPS services in order to ensure that
ine ective/problematic counselors are not a part of CAPS.”
Administration response: Yes. “CAPS will administer an annual
survey at the end of the fall semester to solicit student feedback
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and evaluate student satisfaction, e ectiveness of resources,
and ease of access. The survey will not only include those who
access CAPS, but also those students who do not, in order to
ensure that all students are aware of available services and to
identify any obstacles to student access.”

Demand 13
Demand 13A [1]: “We demand that the college terminate all
relationships with the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD).”
Administration response: Yes. “The College does not maintain
a relationship with the Philadelphia Police Department.”

Demand 13B: “We demand that the college actively work
toward police and prison abolition.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “The College can and
in some cases already does support this work when it is within
faculty scholarship or students’ curricular, co-curricular, and
extra-curricular opportunities. Through the CPG, students,
faculty, and sta

are engaged in this work.”

Demand 13A [sic] [2]: “We Demand that the college terminate
all relationships with the Lower Merion Police Department
(LMPD), Haverford Township Police (HTP), and any police
department.”
Administration response: No. “By law, local police have
jurisdiction over Haverford’s campus. Relationships allow the
College to advocate that law enforcement agencies, over which
it has no control, provide services in a manner that is as
supportive as possible of Haverford’s community and
educational mission.”

Demand 13C: “The colleges will also divest, both in and of
themselves, from any partnerships that may exist, with
companies that rely on prison labor.”
Administration response: Yes. “The College is not aware of any
such partnerships. The endowment has no direct or indirect
exposure to prison companies based in the U.S. Underlying
holdings of an international equity index fund, which is meant
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to provide broad exposure to all international equities and
holds approximately 4,000 companies, results in e ectively
zero, or about 0.001%, exposure to internationally-based
prison companies in the endowment.”

Demand 14
Demand 14A: “We demand an entirely renewed Black Cultural
Center. The house’s current state illuminates the neglect and
lack of priority the house faces, which is a direct reflection of
how Black students on campus are treated by the larger
community.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “The College invites
collaboration on the vision for this space.”

Demand 14B: “In solidarity with our Latinx peers and the
continued erasure of their work, we also demand a Latinx
Center.”
Administration response: Yes, qualified. “We have publicly
made a commitment to establish a LatinX Center.
Conversations with ALAS have included the possibility of new
construction, with other options also under consideration in
those conversations.”

Demand 15
Demand 15: [Additional College Commitments]
Administration response:
“We will create a new vendor policy, including
commitments from the College to prioritize the hiring of
certified minority-owned businesses (and local minorityowned businesses), as well as businesses that employ
formerly incarcerated individuals, businesses that comply
with ‘ban the box’ in their hiring practices, and businesses
with published non-discrimination policies. The College
will plan routine, intentional outreach to identify and
pursue these relationships.”
“The Corporation is actively working on significant
changes to its bylaws and membership processes, in order
to more quickly diversify the composition of the
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Corporation and the Board of Managers, to which it
nominates many members.”
“A wholesale reorganization of the DEI work within the
Dean’s O

ce is underway and will continue, designed to

become a sustainable organizational support structure both
for ongoing work of value to the student body as well as
many of the changes/initiatives currently under
discussion.”
“Sta and faculty anti-racism professional development
via 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge.”
“Anti-racism professional development specific to the field
of Institutional Advancement conducted by Aspen
Leadership Group.”
“The President’s O ce hired three Anti-Racism Project
Assistants for 2020-21 to support anti-racist learning and
action across the institution.”
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