Fuqua Racial Equity Scorecard

Student of Color and Underrepresented Student of Color are terms and definitions used by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

* Student of Color - U.S. domestic or permanent resident students who identify as African American or Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian American, Hispanic American or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and those who are multiracial or multiethnic.

** Underrepresented Student of Color - U.S. domestic or permanent residents students who identify as African American or Black, Hispanic American or Latinx, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and those who are multiracial or multiethnic.

Federal Guidelines Reporting: The Department of the Interior via the Office of Civil Rights provides Federal Guidelines for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and ethnicity. Duke University follows these standards which enables applicants who are US citizens and permanent residents to self-identify their race and ethnicity with the option to select more than one race and/or ethnicity. The race and ethnicity data is presented here per federal guidelines. Hispanic/Latino includes all known US citizens and permanent residents who have identified their ethnicity as such, regardless of any other affiliations they have reported. Multi-Race includes all US citizens and permanent residents who have identified with more than one race and not identified as Hispanic/Latino.

Multi-Identity Reporting Guidelines: To better represent the multiple identities our students have shared in their applications, we share the number of students who identify in each race or ethnic group. Please note that in this representation, a student may be represented in more than one row, so the column adds to greater than 100%.

Example: A student who identifies as White and Hispanic / Latinx is represented only as Hispanic / Latinx, per federal guidelines, but is represented both as White and Hispanic / Latinx in the multi-identity column. A student who identifies as Asian American and Black / African American is represented as Multi-Race, per federal guidelines, and as both Asian American and Black / African American in the multi-identity column.

New Activities

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Concentration – a new DEI concentration was added to the Daytime MBA.  The concentration builds on two electives:  Diversity and Talent Management and Women and Leadership. 
• Inclusive Communications Program – a new course offered by Executive Education that helps executives enhance their interactions with their diverse team and organizations, emphasizing culturally sensitive discussions, awareness of micro-behaviors, and becoming an authentic ally.
• SheaMoisture Business Case - Senior Associate Dean Jeremy Petranka and Assistant Dean Stephanie Robertson co-authored a business case and won first prize in the 2022 DEI Global Case Competition sponsored by the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Ongoing Activities

• Behavior and Common Purpose (Spring 2022) – Core course – had a session on the role of social structures in creating race and economic inequality
• Leadership, Ethics, and Organizations (Summer 2022) – Core Course – had two sessions, one on the psychology of stereotyping and prejudice and one on organizational practices to reduce discrimination.
• C-LEAD (Fall, 2022) – Core course – this is a core experiential leadership course that is coordinated with the core LEO course. Administrators led an identity workshop that provided opportunities for students to explore personal and social identities further demonstrating the diversity of the student body.
• Diversity and Talent Management (Spring 2022) – Elective – this course focuses on diversity and human resources
• Open Enrollment Executive Education – Two courses were offered on race and gender.
  • Leadership, Diversity and Race
  • Women Leaders:  Elevating Influence and Impact

New Activities

• Racial Equity at Fuqua --Fuqua hosts a bi-annual community-wide conversations on race
  • 2022 Sessions
    • Fall 2022: Racial Equity at Fuqua: Let’s Talk about Race – education and allyship with Professor Don Taylor.
    • Spring 2022: Sustaining the Awakening II: Fuqua Stories on Racial Justice
    • Blue Table Talk Series -- The first Blue Table Talk series was held in Fall 2022 for prospective underrepresented students.  In this series, moderated by the Associate Dean of Admissions, current students shared their lived experiences to further emphasize the importance of leveraging different perspectives to improve teams and organizations. 
  • Past sessions
    • Fall 2021: Leadership, Diversity and Race with Professor Ashleigh Rosette
    • Spring 2021: Sustaining the awakening II: Fuqua Stories on Racial Justice.
    • Fall 2020: Sustaining the awakening: Our roles in fighting for Racial Equity, with Professor Mark Anthony Neal and Nolan Smith
• Scorecard Q&A – Dean Boulding, Stephanie Robertson, and Rick Larrick held a moderated Q&A session for Daytime MBA students to discuss the new Scorecard.
• CASE Executive Speaker Series -- CASE held an event featuring Michael McAfee, President and CEO of PolicyLink and the coauthor of the CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity, in Spring 2022 as part of its Executive Speaker Series.   
• Inclusive Leadership Workshop -- Senior Associate Dean Jeremy Petranka delivered the SheaMoisture case, coauthored by and Assistant Dean Stephanie Robertson, to all daytime students in partnership with the Gender Equity Working Group.
• Asset-Based Partnership for Social Impact -- The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) organized the “Asset-Based Partnerships for Social Impact”.  Communities in Partnership and DEI Works Collective examined how power structures and accountability affect partnerships between resource providers and impacted communities.
• Blue Table Talk Series -- The first Blue Table Talk series was held in Fall 2022 for prospective underrepresented students.  In this series, moderated by the Associate Dean of Admissions, current students shared their lived experiences to further emphasize the importance of leveraging different perspectives to improve teams and organizations. 
• Building Anti-Racist Business (BARB) -- The Weekend MBA (WEMBA) Program held Building Anti-Racist Business (BARB) workshops to develop more inclusive business leadership skills. The workshop series offered a new topic each week to encourage thought and discussion amongst the diverse population of WEMBA students.
• Diversity efforts in impact investing - The CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing provides MBA students with the chance to learn about and support diversity efforts in the field of impact investing.
• Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum (FCCP) -- Two Consulting Practicum projects in Spring 2022 focused on initiatives to support BIPOC entrepreneurs and business-owners. One team focused on investment in BIPOC-owned businesses to increase employment and economic growth. A second team worked with Southern Bancorp to develop strategies for channeling capital to BIPOC-led businesses and building wealth in communities of color in the South.

Ongoing Activities

• Workshops on Racial Equity – Fuqua provides access to racial equity workshops for interested students by bringing in outside experts to educate and facilitate conversations around race, racism, and allyship:
  • The Equity Paradigm
  • Walk in my Shoes/Playground of Empathy
• Conversations on diversity and racial equity – We’ve created opportunities to discuss racial equity in dedicated settings for students:
  • Daring Dialogues – These are student-led events that have discussed a range of diversity issues, including race, gender identity, mental health, and international student experiences.
  • Restorative Circles – hosted by trained Fuqua facilitators, create psychologically safe spaces for small groups to go deep into topics like discrimination and bias as well as provide community building opportunities.
  • Diversity and Inclusion Newsletters – written bi-weekly, one for students and the other for faculty and staff
• Providing Support to Black and Latino/a/x members of the Fuqua community from prospective student to alumni – Fuqua supports and provides guidance to our student-run affinity groups, connect Black and Latina/o/x prospective and current students, staff, faculty and alumni, and have increased support for mental health.
  • Student run affinity groups – Include BLMBAO (Black and Latino MBA Organization), BIA (Business in Africa), and LASA (Latin American Student Association).
  • Shine App - Fuqua is partnering with the Shine App, a mental wellness and meditation app for marginalized populations, to offer free premium memberships to students, staff, faculty and alumni.

YES program – The YES program is an Admissions Office-led program that provides one-to-one engagement between URM admitted students and alumni from the time of admission up through enrollment. Alumni share their insights, experiences, and guidance to admitted students to help prepare them to join the Fuqua family and to support them throughout their program.

New Activities

• Daytime MBA Student services racial equity sessions – Employees in student services created and piloted a department-wide racial equity working group.
• DEI Collection in the Ford Library – Fuqua’s Ford Library is focusing on building the collection on DEI with special focus on general business content created by BIPOC persons to more fully reflect the broadening impacts of their work in the business environment.
• Minority Alumni Advisory Board launches the Side Hustle Project – this virtual series provides a supportive discussion opportunity for people of color who are interested in entrepreneurial ventures. Seven sessions were hosted in FY22 engaging Black and Latino/a/x students and alumni.
• Latino/a/x corporate board readiness webinar series – Fuqua’s Alumni Relations team in partnership with Fuqua Alumni Council Member Ricardo Duque, leaders of DUHLAA, and executive search firm DHR International hosted a three-part webinar series open to all Hispanic and Latino/a/x Duke alumni focused on corporate board readiness. This series highlighted potential challenges and opportunities for Hispanic and Latino/a/x alumni exploring corporate board service opportunities and gave attendees a personal and tactical plan to becoming board ready. The series engaged more than 225 Duke alumni.
• Alumni board diversity – In the summer of 2022, DAR welcomed 14 new alumni board members to serve across Fuqua’s Alumni Council, Minority Alumni Advisory Board, and Health Care Alumni Advisory Board. The new members included five Black alumni, three Asian alumni, two Latino/a/x alumni, and four white alumni. 
• Support for MBA students attending diversity conferences – The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) and the Career Management Center (CMC) provided support to all MBA students (daytime and EMBA) who attended the National Black MBA and Prospanica conferences. The CMC coached students on resumes, interviewing, networking, and other skills necessary to be successful at these events, as well as attended the events with ODI to support students during the conferences.
• The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) scholarship opportunity in ESG and Impact Management – The scholarship supported accessibility and inclusion for candidates from historically underrepresented groups. Fifty-one candidates applied for the scholarship and three were provided free registration to our spring 2022 executive education program. 

Continuing Activities

• Minority Alumni Advisory Board – The MAAB helps connect current Black and Latino/a/x students to our alumni of color.
• Fuqua Staff – Fuqua has created opportunities to discuss racial equity in dedicated settings for staff:
  • Diversity and Inclusion Newsletters – Written bi-weekly, one for students and the other for faculty and staff Diversity and Inclusion Newsletters are written bi-weekly, one for students and the other for faculty and staff, and has the following content:
    • Fuqua Stories highlights a member of the community in each newsletter
    • Education and Action provides Fuquans with articles on how to be an inclusive team member and leader and focuses on allyship
    • Diversity and inclusion events happening at Fuqua and in Duke at large
    • Mental health resources
• Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCUs)
  • Black Student Pitch -- Fuqua’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) partnered with NCCU’s School of Business to develop and execute the first annual pitch: A competition for Black student founders, in which student-founders and recent alumni from across the US had the opportunity to showcase their business to investors who have committed to investing in Black-founded and Black-led growth businesses.
• Minority-Owned Business Relationships - We are building partnerships and relationships with minority-owned businesses.
  • Vendor Relationships - A list of minority-owned businesses and restaurants was created to use during Fuqua-related events/workshops/etc. Fuqua contracted with Little Waves Coffee, a Durham-based, minority-owned, women-forward vendor to provide our coffee services.
  • Fuqua on Board (FOB) – This program matched pairs of Duke MBA students with local Durham nonprofits to serve as non-voting board members. Among the 21 nonprofits participating in FOB in 2022/2023, 48% were led by Executive Directors who identify as Black/African American or Bi/Multi-racial. Additionally, 48% of the board chairs were Black/African American or Bi/Multi-racial and 40% of all available board positions are occupied by individuals who identify as Black/African American, Indigenous or Person of Color (BIPOC). 76% of the nonprofits predominantly or exclusively serve BIPOC residents of Durham. FOB is part of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) and administered by the Office of Student Life for the Daytime MBA program.
• DEI Website – In the past year, we have used Fuqua’s website to increase our connections to larger communities.
  • Diversity and Inclusion webpage
  • Living our Values webpage

New Activities

• Society for Early Entrepreneurs (SEE) – SEE partners each year with local non-profit StudentU. Through this collaboration, two Fuqua student leaders work with the organization and up to 20 volunteers to help teach and mentor young entrepreneurs. These young entrepreneurs were able to showcase and sell some of their products at one of our Fuqua Friday’s in the spring.
• Additional Recruiting events for HBCUs – The Admissions Office expanded its outreach this year by attending in person graduate school fairs on HBCU campuses to introduce our Masters in Management Students and Masters in Quantitative Management programs.
• Diverse Perspectives series – The Admissions Office held this event in person for prospective MBA and one-year masters students to highlight the diversity that exists at Fuqua through alumni led panel discussions. The series was expanded to include events in eight cities around the US.

Continuing Activities

• LEADing for Life – For 37 years, high school students from underrepresented populations around the country have been selected to participate in business courses and careers skills. In summer 2022, the program on campus for two weeks with a week of virtual content that provided immersive learning opportunities led by content experts (including Fuqua faculty and administrators) and industry leaders (including Fuqua and Duke Alumni).

• PhD Project – Fuqua continues its participation in the PhD Project, a program that provides students from underrepresented populations information on the process of applying for PhD programs and the nature of the work in graduate school
• Admissions Office Activities
  • Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) – This organization,launched in 2002, is a national nonprofit that transforms leadership pipelines to companies, social sector organizations, and universities by equipping high-achieving young adults from underrepresented communities—Black/African American, Latina/o/x, and Native Americans – with the tools to realize their full potential, to make a mark, and make a difference. Fuqua has been partnering with MLT since 2002 and made a multi-year commitment to host their annual kick-off seminar for approximately 300 prospective students from underrepresented populations. Fuqua hosted the MLT kick-off seminar in March 2021 and will host again in 2022.
  • JumpStart Advisory Group – This organization, founded in 2004 by two Fuqua alumni, is dedicated to creating a pipeline between highly qualified candidates and employers in those fields committed to strengthening their businesses by improving diversity and inclusion efforts. We’ve been partnering with them since their inception and held their very first event at Fuqua. In 2016 they developed their Path2MBA Program for prospective MBA students and Fuqua hosts that event each summer.
  • Forté – Through our existing partnership with Forté, an organization committed to supporting and launching women into success business careers, we’ve engaged in opportunities to increase the representation of women of color in business through their forums and leadership conferences.
  • Recruiting events for HBCU – These events include alumni and undergraduate students and introduce our portfolio of degree programs. We’ve also hosted a lunch and learn event with key influencers at HBCUs to increase awareness of our programs and are identifying opportunities to collaborate and increase representation of HBCU graduates at Fuqua. These events are scheduled for spring 2022.
  • Diverse Perspective Series – This is a series for prospective students and included a session for First Generation and Low Income (LIFE) students on business school opportunities and how to best prepare and navigate the admissions process.
  • Admit.Me - Fuqua has strengthened their partnership with this organization as we hosted presentations for their Fellows on how to best navigate the admissions process and ways to support the engagement of current students in their role as mentors for prospective URM and first-generation college students.

MBA Tour’s Spotlight – We’ve been hosting specialized workshops during this series called Diversity for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous MBAs.

New Research

Fuqua faculty regularly publish academic research insights on diversity and equity in leading research journals. The work generated by Fuqua faculty often reaches broad audiences and has a practitioner/policy-maker focus. Recent research includes the following papers (*=current or recent Fuqua Ph.D. students): 

• Angelica Leigh, What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes (published in the Organization Science)
• Rick Larrick, Rebecca Ponce de Leon*, and Jacqueline Rifkin*, They’re Everywhere!”: Symbolically Threatening Groups Seem More Pervasive Than Nonthreatening Groups (published in Psychological Science).
• Ashleigh Rosette and Rebecca Ponce de Leon*, “Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women (published in the Academy of Management Journal).
• Ashleigh Rosette and Christopher Petsko Are leaders still presumed white by default? Racial bias in leader categorization revisited (published in the Journal of Applied Psychology).
• Ashleigh Rosette, Anyi Ma*, and Christy Zhou Koval, Reconciling female agentic advantage and disadvantage with the CADDIS measure of agency (published in the Journal of Applied Psychology)
• Ashleigh Rosette, Sean Fath*, and Anyi Ma* Self-views of disadvantage and success impact perceptions of privilege among White men (published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)
• Ashleigh Rosette, Christopher Petsko, and Galen Bodenhausen Through the looking glass: A lens-based account of intersectional stereotyping (published in the Journal of personality and social psychology)