PCSB Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives

Climate and Intergroup Relations

• Beginning fall 2019, all incoming PCSB undergraduate students will receive implicit bias training focusing on managing diversity within teams. Since 2022, this training, which is a requirement for first-year students, has been called Working Together Across Differences. In this workshop students learn about the importance of diversity in the classroom and the workplace, as well as work on developing a skill set to be an asset to diverse teams.
• Incoming PC MBA and M.S. in Business Analytics students are offered training on implicit bias and on developing and working within diverse teams.
• In fall 2019, all staff participated in  an implicit bias  training. In 2020, select staff were trained to facilitate DEI workshops for PCSB first-year students. In addition, all staff participated in the College’s “Diversity Inclusion in the Modern Workplace” and “Managing Bias” training sessions in spring 2021 and winter 2022.
• Dean Sylvia Maxfield, Professor Theresa Moore, and other staff regularly attend the annual AACSB-sponsored Diversity and Inclusion Summits.
• In November 2021, Community Dialogue, Inclusion, and Democracy (D.I.D.) wall was installed in the Ryan Center atrium. The mission of the wall is to create a safe space that supports the development of well-informed and engaged students through civil discourse. Twelve student D.I.D Fellows, with the help of PCSB administrative advisors, produce prompts, collect information from the board, and discuss how to use the information. The D.I.D. Fellows also report to the PCSB D.E.I Committee and receive support from the committee as needed.
• In spring 2022 the PCSB administered a survey to graduating PCSB students assessing their experience and the PCSB’s alignment with PC200’s aspiration for a community in which all feel included and have a strong sense of belonging. Results were compiled and reported to stakeholder groups. Review a summary of the survey.

Formal and Informal Curricula

• A curriculum assessment was conducted in spring 2020. As a result, the PCSB commissioned two graduate students to find updated business school teaching materials that include broader identity representation.
• Researched, developed, and made available to the PCSB faculty a case repository containing over 90 business cases and other business school teaching materials that include individuals with a variety of different ethnic, racial, and other identifying markers.
• In June 2021, collaborated with The Ph.D. Project on a two-day, international, virtual workshop designed to encourage the writing and publishing of more diverse case materials. This was offered as a three-day, on-campus workshop in June 2022. This sold-out program welcomed faculty from around the U.S.
• PCSB Assurance of Learning program goals for undergraduate and MBA were revised in spring 2020 to specify “ability for cultural agility in the workplace” as a curriculum learning goal.
• The diversity module in a PCSB core course required of all business majors was shifted from a focus on global cultural competency to a focus on race and ethnicity in 2020.
• The finance major capstone course was revised to include a module called “Faith and Finance,” covering a variety of topics exploring the intersection of finance and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Student Learning and Development 

• The Berkeley Business Excellence Program was initiated during the fall 2021 semester, with the inaugural class of Berkeley Scholars selected and programming offered.
• National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) student club chapter founded Spring 2020. 
• Association of Latino Professional for America (ALPHA) student club chapter founded Fall 2016. 
• Creation of an PCSB Alumni of Color Network to support students and to engage with campus. (February 2020)

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