Diversity and Community

University Prep's mission compels us to train and educate the next generation of leaders who will create impact and change in an interdependent, complex, and global community. Our students need to see, hear, and understand the diversity of people, perspectives and points of view around them and the world they will lead in the years ahead. Essential to this proposition is the ability of our students to identify, analyze, and act on issues of equity, justice, and inclusion. Our world demands it.
 

We support our mission by creating experiences for our students to come face-to-face with the issues playing out in society and allowing them the room to grow in their own identity development. From our annual Social Justice Day to classroom assignments, equity, justice, and inclusion are embedded in all that we do.

Through collaboration with grade-level deans and the assistant directors of middle and upper school, we are working to not just react to the needs that arise for our students, but to proactively teach DEI skills to help reduce harm. Our scaffolded DEI curriculum engages students in exploring their identities, bias, justice, and intersectionality.  Each month, students work with their advisory groups on one of these themes. 

The Diversity and Community Office, centrally located within the school, provides a safe space for our students and faculty to have discussions, embrace and confront challenging issues, and hold club and affinity group meetings.