Loyola Responds
Racial Justice
Loyola University Chicago has long maintained a commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equality on our campuses and in our community. But as recent events in our nation have shown, we are called to do more in response to racism. This page contains our recent statements and ongoing action steps being taken in pursuit of racial justice.
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Commemorating Juneteenth
June 18, 2020: Over the past several weeks, our nation has been engulfed by the public outcry against ongoing racism in our society. This specter of systemic racism shadows our collective commitment to valuing human life, dignity, respect, and equality for all people in our country.
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Our Road towards Racial Justice
June 16, 2020: Responding to President Jo Ann Rooney’s call for action, we recently sent a communication to the Loyola University Chicago community naming some immediate steps that we have taken to start addressing racism. Following that communication, we received hundreds of emails from students, parents, faculty, and staff asking for a comprehensive response. The voices represented in those emails were right on target.
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Building Bridges
June 2, 2020: In Minneapolis and in the rest of the nation, the smoke is beginning to lift. As it lifts, we see sickening images that are all too familiar to the American eye and that have continued to haunt us since the Colonial Era. We are not talking about images of bullets unleashed against protesters, ransacked stores, and edifices on fire. Instead, to our dismay, we see racism as almost undetectable for how ordinary it is, being so universal, so pervasive, and so entrenched. It inflicts agony, causing our hearts to ache.
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