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Online Exhibit Highlights the College’s Study Abroad Programs , article
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Humanity at the Core , article
The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences focuses on how people have used their power to transform oppressive systems and effect social change, writes Dean Laura Belmonte in a statement. “These lessons are urgent,” she adds, “and they can guide us on how to act now.”
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United Voices for Justice , article
“Our research clearly shows that certain laws and police practices not only place communities of color at risk for acts of direct violence,” writes James Hawdon, interim chair of the Virginia Tech Department of Sociology, “but also unjustly increase their relative risk of the violence of arrest and incarceration.”
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Science, Technology, and Society Scholars for Justice , article
“We place an uncomfortable but necessary burden on ourselves when we recognize the institutional nature of racism, since it implicates the very places within which we live and work,” write Virginia Tech experts in science, technology, and society.”
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Historians for Justice , article
Virginia Tech historians write that they have the expertise, and the duty, to put into context the violence they are now witnessing against Black men, women, and children.
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Celebration of Supreme Court Decision to Outlaw Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ , article
After more than 40 years of failed efforts to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in Congress, it is finally illegal in all 50 states to fire someone solely for being LGBTQ.
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Call for Justice and Solidarity: Statement on the Atlanta Shootings and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism , article
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Commitment to Diversity and Anti-racism , article
Members of the Department of English write that they “take inspiration from the many Black writers who have shaped the minds of our nation’s great thinkers and given voice to the oppressed.”
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Performing Artists for Justice , article
“As artists, our voices matter in the world,” write leaders of the Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts. “We will use our voices to speak out against injustice and brutality.”
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Family and Developmental Scientists for Justice , article
In a statement in support of social justice, April Few-Demo encourages students and alumni to use their knowledge and skills “to reject, with conviction, discriminatory and marginalizing actions, beliefs, and practices that degrade people, keep us disconnected from one another’s humanity within divisive ideological silos, and result in senseless tears and deaths.”

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