Anonymous, Class of 2023

It’s segregated to a certain degree but definitely not cliquey. I have friends of different ethnicities and races but would say that like most places people of the same ethnicity and race tend to hang out with people who share their identifiers. It’s not hard though to make friends of different ethnicities or races. We have the Davis Center and our Black Student Union. Honestly, I like our BSU but have mixed feelings about the Davis Center. They’ve helped us make a lot of progress up until this point but (again like many other PWIs) it at times feels hard to make the changes we’d like to see. I wish there were more POC staff that could be advisors on this campus or more opportunities to connect with POC staff. Being able to talk to older POC staff about things happening on this campus or just navigating a PWI, in general, would be really nice. I think Williams is supportive of students of color regardless of their identity. I think we could be more supportive of disabled students because the academic environment and the old buildings on campus are challenging to navigate. I am a black woman and have felt generally supported but I can’t speak for other POC’s experiences on this campus.  I have a lot of black friends who have various leadership positions and are in different clubs so I know black people in many spaces on campus and that’s comforting. That makes me feel represented in different areas on campus. We’re a small population at this school though but unless you go to an HBCU then the number of Black kids on campus isn’t going to be that large.