The Five College Learning in Retirement Council endorses the sentiments expressed in the following statement issued by the Five College Consortium:
A core element of the mission of Five Colleges, Incorporated is to support and sustain a robust academic community in the Connecticut River Valley through the programs we manage on behalf of our member campuses. Doing this community-building work well requires that we engage and empower all members of the community. To that end, Five Colleges endeavors to be an anti-racist organization, that we may better fulfill our purpose and serve our member campuses.
We acknowledge the enduring legacy of racism in our country, in the institutions of higher education that we serve, and in this organization itself — a legacy built on lands originally occupied by Indigenous peoples and with stolen labor performed by enslaved Africans and their descendants. A commitment to achieving racial equity and justice is our moral obligation to one another, and also a necessary corollary to FCI’s community-building mission, which requires that FCI employees join as active participants in this work.
https://www.fivecolleges.edu/about/racial-justice-equitydei-programs
See also the 2020 Amendment to the LIR bylaws.