Siena Heights University creates new ‘JEDI’ certificate with taxpayer dollars

Siena Heights University creates new ‘JEDI’ certificate with taxpayer dollars - ANNA WASCOVICH - FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE

"Siena Heights University will offer a new certificate in “Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” this upcoming fall semester.
The new certificate will give students “hands-on experience” for how to apply DEI in the “workplace,” according to the professor who directs the program at the Michigan Catholic college.
The initiative stems from a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to explore the feasibility of the certificate. 

Siena Heights received $34,905 so it could “design a new, coherent D&I certificate program at SHU that is qualitatively distinct from the D&I certificates offered at other institutions and which can be offered in either online or blended/hybrid formats,” according to the grant summary...