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University Equity and Inclusion
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University Equity and Inclusion
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University Equity and Inclusion
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University Equity and Inclusion
(L to R) Barbara A. Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Edward Ramsamy, Interim Co-Chair CACP and Associate Professor for Africana Studies and Isabel Nazario, Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, pose for a picture with honorees Maria Fuentes, Associate Professor, Women's & Gender Studies and History, Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, and Camilla Townsend, Professor of History

Recognizing excellence in diversity and inclusion.

The Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (CACP) is a university-wide committee founded in 1987.

Formerly housed in the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. The Committee moved to the University Equity and Inclusion Office in 2020. Dr. Denise Rodgers, the Vice-Chancellor for Inter-professional Programs, RBHS, serves as chair.

We recognize the outstanding contributions of the university community through the Clement Price Human Dignity Award, the Leaders in Faculty Diversity Awards, and Special Achievement Award. We lead initiatives and fund grants to build a university community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.  

Visit the awards archive and the Dialogues Across Difference grant program to learn more about the research, leadership accomplishments and community engagement projects of our faculty, staff and university-community partners that are transforming how we see and understand intersectional diversity, equity and inclusion across all of our campuses.