{"id":24,"date":"2020-07-02T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/diversity-draft\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:05:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/diversity\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero super   cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>Social justice is both a process and&nbsp;a&nbsp;goal<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1859\/diversity-equity-inclusion-cert-lg.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls-container\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-icon\" title=\"Accessibility controls\">Accessibility controls<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-motion-control cl-accessibility-control-hidden\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Pause motion\">Pause motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">On<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Play motion\">Play motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Off<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-contrast-control\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Increase text contrast\">Increase text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Standard<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Reset text contrast\">Reset text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">High<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-system-setting\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle\" title=\"Apply my preferences site-wide\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle-label\">Apply site-wide<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">We promote critical consciousness, cultural humility, and compassion, for a socially just and equitable campus community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office of Community, Equity and Diversity leads institution-wide initiatives to anchor inclusion in every aspect of the University of Rhode Island\u2019s community and operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vision<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Advancing inclusion by cultivating community, enhancing&nbsp;equity, and demonstrating diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core Values<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Impact culture and climate by creating a welcoming community where each member can learn, work, and thrive.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increase institutional capacity by hosting communities of practice that foster cultural competence and model constructive dialogue across difference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Influence the orientation of the academic and administrative enterprise by advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our scholarship and research, pedagogy and practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incorporate inclusion in university policies and procedures by identifying and removing artificial barriers that impede the land grant mission and mandate to support all learners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Iterate through coordinated and ongoing institution-wide assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">University Diversity Council<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The University Diversity Council, comprised of undergraduate, graduate students, staff, faculty, and alumni representatives, advises the chief diversity officer on university-wide policies, procedures, and initiatives that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><a class=\"cl-button  block-level\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/diversity\/about\/university-diversity-council\/\" title=\"\">Learn more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accessibility Task Force<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In alignment with our Focus URI 2023-2033 Strategic Plan to foster an inclusive, people-centered culture, URI created the Accessibility Task Force in Fall 2024. This cross-divisional task force provides an overarching structure to coordinate disability access and inclusion initiatives occurring across the University.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/diversity\/about\/accessibility-task-force\/\" title=\"\">LEARN MORE<\/a>\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \"><h1> University Strategic Plan<\/h1>\n\n<p>One of the four pillars of the University&#8217;s new 10-year strategic plan, introduced by President Parlange in the spring of 2023, is fostering an inclusive, people-centered culture. <\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\/\" title=\"\">URI Strategic plan 2023-2033<\/a>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"feature-caption\">\nTop caption: Bell, Adams, Griffin, 1997\n<div class=\"credit\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We promote critical consciousness, cultural humility, and compassion, for a socially just and equitable campus community. Mission The Office of Community, Equity and Diversity leads institution-wide initiatives to anchor inclusion in every aspect of the University of Rhode Island\u2019s community and operations. Vision Advancing inclusion by cultivating community, enhancing&nbsp;equity, and demonstrating diversity. 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