Strengthening QUEENS
Exploring history and the legacies of slavery that still exist today is one way that Queens is working to combat racial inequality. A Place for Everyone
QUEENS COMMITS TO RESEARCHING AND ACKNOWLEDGING TIES TO SLAVERY
By John Syme
Queens has joined Universities Studying Slavery (USS), a consortium created in 2013 and led by the University of Virginia. Joining USS was important to the task force convened
by Queens President Dan Lugo in March 2020 to examine and report on the university’s historical relationship with slavery and its legacies. Te task force has also made initial recommendations for creating dialogues around topics like inherited wealth; fostering interdisciplinary academic work relating to racial-justice topics; exploring 20th and 21st-century racial history at Queens; examining
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relationships between Queens and Charlotte leaders; and communicating it broadly to all audiences in constructive public conversations at Queens, in Charlotte, and beyond. “We didn’t want to do this in a vacuum,” said Sarah
Fatherly, Ph.D., provost and vice president for academic affairs who co-chairs the task force with Darryl White, Sr., ’92, MS ’21, assistant dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement (DICE). Fatherly notes that roughly one-third of Queens students today are people of color. Joining forces with more than 80 schools in five countries will further strengthen Queens’ commitment to explore and address the university’s past connections to slavery and racial injustice. Each member school is committed to research, acknowledgment, and atonement concerning institutional connections to
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