Institutional Statement Guidelines

In fall 2024, President Mason is engaging the John Jay community on two questions: 1) When do we speak? (When should she make an institutional statement?) and 2) How do we speak? (How do we equip our community for meaningful/productive dialogue on challenging/charged topics?). 

To help her respond to these questions, President Mason is holding a fall 2024 listening tour to solicit feedback on #1 and preview campus-wide work on #2. Stops on the listening tour include regularly scheduled meetings of the John Jay Foundation Board, President's Leadership Council, Faculty Senate, College Council, Council of Chairs, Student Council and HEO Council. Please scroll for the listening tour schedule. President Mason plans to share a follow-up on these conversations during the spring 2025 semester.

You can also share your thoughts anonymously through this online feedback form (the form is inactive as of December 20, 2024).

Background reading includes institutional statement guidelines from Harvard, the University of Chicago and Seattle University President Eduardo M. Peñalver as well as John Jay’s Seven Principles for a Culturally Responsive, Inclusive and Anti-Racist Curriculum. 

Fall 2024 Listening Tour Schedule*

Sept 19, John Jay Foundation Board
Sept 24, President’s Leadership Council
Sept 25, HEO Council
Sept 25, Faculty Senate
Oct 15, College Council
Nov 14, 1:40-3, Community Forum, Moot Court or Zoom
Nov 14, Alumni Association Executive Board
Dec 3, Council of Chairs
TBD, Student Council

*Schedule is subject to change. Please send questions to Kira Poplowski, chief communications officer.