{"id":2437,"date":"2023-01-25T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/?page_id=2437"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:37:36","slug":"priority-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\/priority-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Priority 3: Foster an Inclusive Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strategic Plan 2023-2033<\/h1>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Priorities\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-strategic-plan\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-2455\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2455\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2459\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2459\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\/priority-1\/\">Priority 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2457\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2457\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\/priority-2\/\">Priority 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2456\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2456\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\/priority-3\/\">Priority 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2458\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2458\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\/priority-4\/\">Priority 4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero  plan-priority-hero plan-priority-3 cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>Foster an Inclusive Culture<\/h1><p>Priority 3<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2061\/inclusive-hero.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>\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth plan-priority-descriptor\">Foster an inclusive, people-centered culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth plan-priority-deck\"><em>The University of Rhode Island will be a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community\u2014a vibrant, integrated university that celebrates the uniqueness of its members and fosters a culture of valuing people, excellence, and giving back.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>URI is deeply committed to cultivating a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and accessible learning, living, and working environment. We value intellectual curiosity, creativity, scholarship, and the global exchange of ideas that enrich our community and contribute meaningfully to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We respect and appreciate the unique contributions of every member of our community, and we will not tire in our efforts to foster a true sense of belonging by ensuring that the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are imbued in all that we do in our policies, programming, collaborations, and conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have witnessed seismic changes wrought by a global pandemic. And we must, as we emerge, adapt to those changes and, even more, harness the opportunities they present by ensuring that we continue to promote collaboration, reward excellence, maintain flexibility, provide and support opportunities for personal and professional growth, and be responsive to new ideas so that we may attract and retain the very best students, staff, and faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group plan-goal\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Goal 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cultivate a sense of community\u2014\u2018one university\u2019\u2014where all students, faculty, and staff find themselves included and their work valued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Action 1<\/strong>: Enhance the University\u2019s human resources organization to address the whole employee and embrace modern and competitive practices, including organization and employee development, workplace flexibility, and employee support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Action 2<\/strong>: Institute regular assessments of the workplace environment, provide community updates, and make related improvements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Action 3<\/strong>: Grow professional development and learning opportunities for the Rhode Island workforce and alumni.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group plan-goal\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Goal 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Build an innovative, contemporary, and professional learning environment and workplace that values and advances diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility with leadership that is principle-centered and effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Action 1<\/strong>: Enhance search and hiring processes to prioritize the recruitment, hiring, and retention of faculty and staff of color.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Action 2<\/strong>: Implement professional development programming focused on anti-racism and building awareness of anti-Black racism, and encourage active discourse and develop opportunities for interaction between diverse groups and individuals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Action 3<\/strong>: Ensure a diversity-infused curriculum, with equitable support for diversity fellowships and mentors for faculty of color, and value evidence-based faculty contributions to anti-racism and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group plan-goal\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Goal 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Attract, recognize, and retain outstanding faculty and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Action 1<\/strong>: Institute streamlined, contemporary, and equitable talent acquisition and retention processes and practices, including a competitive and equitable salary structure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Action 2<\/strong>: Articulate and expand opportunities for faculty and staff career progression.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Action 3<\/strong>: Foster a culture of excellence that provides development opportunities, recognizes achievement, and rewards outstanding performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"small fullwidth\"><em>The goals and actions in this plan represent those that were introduced in 2023. Focus URI is not a static document, but rather an agile, dynamic plan that will necessarily evolve, enabling us to respond to changes in the world and our communities, while maintaining a firm commitment to our land- and sea-grant missions, our institutional vision, and our foundational values. The University works diligently to comply with the evolving legal landscape and to ensure that all Focus URI initiatives and actions are only pursued to the extent they are consistent with the law.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategic Plan 2023-2033 Foster an inclusive, people-centered culture The University of Rhode Island will be a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community\u2014a vibrant, integrated university that celebrates the uniqueness of its members and fosters a culture of valuing people, excellence, and giving back. URI is deeply committed to cultivating a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and accessible learning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":2428,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions\/2979"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}