Incorporating DEI Issues into the Business School Curriculum: Possibilities, Issues and Lessons Learned from One Initiative

Keywords: DEI in Curriculum, Freshmen, Corporate Partnership

Abstract: Business Schools are seeking the best ways to incorporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) content into the curriculum. We launched an initiative in Fall 2021 that involved our incoming students by creating DEI content and activities into our new Introduction to Business class. We drew on the expertise of a corporate partner as well as of our campus’s VP for Diversity. We obtained quantitative and qualitative responses from students about the content. This experience provides a framework for discussion of a variety of questions about how to effectively bring DEI awareness and content into the business curriculum.