多样性和包容性办公室
The 多样性和包容性办公室 leads efforts to foster 九州娱乐官网’s inclusive learning environment and helps shape and implement the College’s strategic 制定多元化、公平和包容的计划. This work involves partnering with departments to help attract, recruit, and retain diverse faculty, librarians, and Academic Affairs 工作人员. It also involves collaborating with others to facilitate faculty and 工作人员 development that supports diversity and inclusion goals.
Inclusive Excellence at 九州娱乐官网
什么是包容性卓越? Inclusive excellence is a concept and framework developed by the American Association 高等院校. In a nutshell, it’s the recognition that diversity and educational excellence are intertwined. 包容性卓越是实现的时候 diversity and inclusion, broadly defined, exist at the highest level of importance at an institution and is foundational to that institution’s mission. Our success depends on how well we value, engage, include, and support the diversity of our constituents, which includes students, faculty, 工作人员, alumni, board members 以及社区伙伴.
选择名称策略 Students can change their email display name, class and athletic roster, Canvas display name, and student ID to reflect their chosen name (and pronouns) by submitting the 选择名称表格 注册官办公室. Students can change how their names appear in the separate WCOnline system themselves (follow the instructions below):
Current Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
校园气候调查
九州娱乐官网 aims to foster an inclusive environment for all students and employees. The 校园气候调查 helps us better understand our campus community members’ experiences with and perceptions of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our learning, 生活和职业环境. We are preparing to conduct our annual survey this fall. 更多细节将会公布 很快.
策略性多样性规划程序
九州娱乐官网 completed its strategic diversity planning process in February 2023 and is transitioning into its implementation phase. 所有书院持份者 have a role to play in implementing WC’s vision for inclusive excellence. 总统的 office will be monitoring the progress and success of our strategic goals.
包容性卓越讲座系列
Dr. Viji Sathy和Dr. Kelly Hogan from UNC Chapel Hill are returning to campus virtually for the December No Fuss Book Club discussion (co-sponored by the Center for Teaching & 学习). 该活动将是一个现场问答&A session with the authors as they focus on Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom.
多样性办公室赞助了Dr. David Smith’s lecture, “Leveraging the Power of Allyship,” on April 27, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. 在Hynson酒廊.
九州娱乐官网荣幸地邀请到了. 弗里曼Hrabowski，名誉主席 the University of Maryland Baltimore County and co-author of 授权大学, as our inaugural Inclusive Excellence Speaker on October 18, 2022.
What Does Inclusive Excellence Mean to You?
In the Fall of 2023, the 多样性和包容性办公室 Communications Intern, Piper Sartison, interviewed members of the campus community. 这里有一些 perspectives on what inclusive excellence means to them.
Mike Sousuki，学院院长
“We believe in equity in terms of access to all the great things that 九州娱乐官网 教育可以给人. We recognize that historically, we have not been equitable 在授予访问权时. We believe that whatever students experience here, we should be providing excellence in terms of opportunity and one of the ways in which that 当公平的时候才会变得优秀.”
Maegan White, SGA Parlimentarian 2023-2024
"Because a college functions around the student body, it is essential that inclusive excellence is geared especially towards creating those equitable and inclusive environments 对于学生群体来说. And, I think at 九州娱乐官网 specifically, we see the most exemplary work of inclusive excellence being from clubs and organizations on 校园……. Its been really unique to see how clubs and organizations are centering inclusivity 在他们自己的组织内部，”
Dr. 罗宾·范·米特，生物系
“To me, inclusive excellence in the future at 九州娱乐官网 would be to create a truly diverse and welcoming campus, that embraces students, faculty, and 工作人员, from varying ethnic and cultural backgrounds, gender, and sexual identities, as well 神经和生理模式...这是我最终的希望...that we’re kind of this beacon of light and that we’re able to show people in the broader community that we’re welcoming and accepting, and want everyone to flourish at 九州娱乐官网.”
Professor Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, English Department
"The more that we share and learn from each other, the more inclusive we become. As a result of inclusivity, I think you have no choice but to become excellent, because you’re then allowing everyone to be exactly who they are and we’re all striving toward the same goal, which is getting to a place where we are comfortable with our capacity 为成就. [As faculty members] we’re trying to get our students to that level where they can achieve their goals, and the tools that they need to do that are being 对自己很自在,"