To be excellent and to prepare students for working and living in an increasingly diverse nation and world, the University of Delaware must take action to enhance its diversity. A priority of the President’s Diversity Initiative is to work collaboratively across the campus to increase the presence of faculty, staff and students from underrepresented groups, thus fostering an educational environment that embraces and inspires diverse thought.
As a community we will embrace diversity as an integral and vital part of everyday life and a cornerstone of the value of our university
The purpose of the President’s Diversity Initiative is to:
∞ add to the diversity of faculty, students, and staff at the University
∞ coordinate efforts across campus that are designed to enhance diversity
∞ set annual priorities and a timeline for specific areas of action for enhancing diversity on campus and ensuring that all people feel welcome in this community;
∞ assist institutional leaders in developing plans for accountability around diversity.
∞ work with the President’s Diversity & Equity Commission to identify the information needed to monitor and guide institutional change.
The University of Delaware’s educational mission is to prepare students to live in an increasingly interconnected and diverse world. To do so, we are committed to fostering a robust educational environment that supports critical thinking, free inquiry, and an understanding of diverse views and values. We see diversity as a core value and guiding principle for our educational mission and thus must work to make diversity an integral part of everyday life on campus. To this end, we take diversity to mean both the recognition and appreciation of the different backgrounds, values, and ideas of those who comprise our campus, as well as a commitment to ensuring that all people on our campus are treated according to principles of fairness, civility, dignity, and equity. We are committed to building an educational community that understands people from different backgrounds and economic circumstances, with different needs, and from diverse personal and philosophical beliefs. We want to make all people who are part of the University feel welcome and valued in campus life.
The University of Delaware's new Center for the Study of Diversity will begin its spring lecture series with a Feb. 15 talk by a noted criminal justice professor who will examine consumer racial profiling, informally known as "shopping while black."
More than 100 students from institutions around the country attended the annual National McNair Scholars Research Conference and Graduate School Fair, recently hosted on campus.
UD's Network of Undergraduate Collaborative Learning Experiences for Underrepresented Scholars (NUCLEUS) program is expanding its mission to encompass a wider range of academic majors within the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).
