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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">TL;DR: Please read this article and take the action described at the end.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><a href="https://thetech.com/2021/04/15/critique-strategic-plan-op-ed"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC">This op-ed</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
from students on the DEI Strategic Action Plan Steering Committee details how MIT’s promise of an “</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">explicit, directional, and aspirational set of actions for MIT” was,
behind closed doors, turned into a plan that does not successfully address any dimensions of what we feel constitutes an antiracist framework. For MIT’s strategic plan to not be fully antiracist, against the backdrop of
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">what seems like never-ending violent manifestations of systemic racism in the news</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">,
is simply unacceptable.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">Students request that by May 7, Academic Council respond to our proposed changes to the strategic plan with clear answers of what they will commit to adopt.
If the response is unsatisfactory, the students on the steering committee will reconsider our future participation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">If you support the article, please email Provost Martin Schmidt (</span></b><a href="mailto:schmidt@mit.edu"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC">schmidt@mit.edu</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">),
ICEO John Dozier (</span></b><a href="mailto:jdozier@mit.edu"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC">jdozier@mit.edu</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">),
and cc </span></b><a href="mailto:steercomm-students@mit.edu"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC">steercomm-students@mit.edu</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">
saying “I support the student call for Institute-wide standards”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#050505">GSC DEI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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