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Engineering for all

In order to realize our vision, we must continuously strive to create and uphold a supportive, accountable culture and climate that’s committed to inclusion, equity, and diversity in engineering. We aspire to build a faculty, staff and student body that reflects the broader world, across gender identities, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and other identities and lived experiences. And we aim to ensure equity in policies, practices, and workloads across the college to create an environment where all can excel.

Goal

Draw upon the talents of a diverse range of outstanding faculty, staff, and students to foster a supportive environment that empowers the entire engineering community to excel.

Strategies and action items

Improve the culture and climate experience of students and employees.

  • Build and offer professional development programming that supports a culture of inclusive excellence.

 

Improve the gender, racial/ethnic, and other diversity of students and employees.

  • Continuously utilize best practices in hiring faculty, staff and students
  • Grow the number of faculty candidates
  • Improve the graduate student experience for all students
  • Expand outreach programs to high school students

 

Ensure equity in policies, practices, and workloads across the college.

  • Develop a robust framework in which all faculty, staff and students are comfortable in reporting incidents
  • Develop an accountability framework; whereby, faculty, staff, postdocs, and students share responsibility for advancing inclusion, equity, and diversity

Learn about our other strategic priorities

Education

Excel at inclusive, innovative, and interdisciplinary engineering education and the preparation of our students for future success.

Research

Amplify our research enterprise and its impact in solving society’s greatest challenges.

Invest in success

Support our people, expand our infrastructure, and strengthen our financial profile.