DEI Statement

The UMass Amherst Alumni Association is a community reflecting a wide range of experiences, identities, and perspectives. We work to ensure that our diversity enriches our representation of our alumni in partnership with the broader University community.   

The Alumni Association understands that diversity is a fact, equity is a method, inclusion is a behavior, and belonging is the outcome that we are trying to achieve.

The Alumni Association further understands that completely integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into our decision-making processes is a moral obligation. This organizational strength requires constant vigilance and reassessment to fully realize the benefits it offers to our community.

The diversity we seek to embrace includes a complete range of human attributes, strengths, talents, and constructive ideas. We are committed to diversifying our volunteers, collaborators, and programming. These efforts will, in turn, diversify our program participants. In this way, the Alumni Association works to enhance the lives of all members of the UMass community through our efforts to inform, involve, and interconnect people across the full spectrum of individual and collective identity and lived experience.

It is our responsibility to place these values at the cornerstone of all we do. Through our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, we seek to build a community of belonging where everyone in the Alumni Association’s sphere of influence feels they are a part of our collective “we.”