Learning goes beyond the classroom walls. We are committed to providing creative ways for students, staff, and faculty to learn from one another, engage deeply to develop understanding across differences, and grow as a result.
Review the definitions below to understand why we emphasize our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Diversity refers to the variety of personal experiences, values, and worldviews arising from differences of culture and circumstance. Such differences include race, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, age, religion, language, disability status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, geographic region, and more.
Equity refers to actively working to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented full participation across differences in culture and circumstance. Attention to equity involves ensuring access, opportunity, and advancement for all students, faculty, and staff in every stage of education and career development.
Inclusion refers to the act of creating environments in which individuals and groups feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. An inclusive climate embraces differences and offers respect in words and actions so that people of all backgrounds can fully participate in the university’s opportunities.
Participants will recognize challenges and develop tools for more thoughtful interactions across difference and understand how our attempts at finding connections can be improved with greater awareness and skill development.
The Diversity Education Network is a mechanism for amplifying, connecting, and expanding equity, diversity, inclusion, access, and justice capacity building across Rutgers university for students, staff, and faculty.
The Inclusive Leadership Network hosts this cohort-based program to equip academic and administrative leaders to engage in critical self-reflection, foster positive relationships, and work toward institutional transformation within their scope and areas of responsibility.
The Education as Disruption series of workshops and the annual intensives are an invitation to turn to wonder instead of judgement when faced with misunderstanding, to approach challenges related to bias – perceived or experienced – with curiosity, and to choose learning over resentment. If all of us did this, it would change our community. These tools will build your capacity to engage in a diverse community.
Check out the curated LinkedIn Learning Starting Points to disrupt bias, promote inclusion, and enable substantive growth.
Campus Centers for Truth, Racial Healing, and Reconcilation (housed in Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-Camden) develop and implement visionary action plans to engage and empower campus and community stakeholders to identify and disrupt biases as a means of preparing current and future generations of leaders and thinkers to build more equitable communities.
