In Spring 2020, the Inclusive Excellence Leadership Team partnered with the Diversity Peer Advisor Program Leadership Team to develop a re-imagined diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) project-based peer initiative. This led to the creation of the Inclusive Excellence Fellows Initiative, which was launched as a pilot in Spring 2021.

This initiative is designed to foster a campus climate of inclusive excellence by creating a project-based peer diversity program that targets DEI issues at Swarthmore College to increase diverse recruitment/retention, create opportunities for development and programming, and improve communication and coordination for DEI work.