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University Equity and Inclusion
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Meet the Moment with Humanity

Spring 2024

Tensions are rising from every angle, local, national, and global.

How we as a community respond will make all the difference.

There are many ways to meet this moment, but not all are productive.

We can turn on each other. Or, we can embrace our shared humanity, with its messiness and contradictions.

The latter requires hard and sometimes uncomfortable work to live up to aspirational values like diversity, equity, and inclusion, which are much easier to say in the abstract than amid conflict.

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Meeting the Moment with Humanity: Despite the complex personal and policy positions on the growing global humanitarian crisis, we owe respect in words and actions toward each other, especially when we disagree — that is the difference between being in proximity and being in community.
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Conflict Tests Our Commitment

In moments of heightened conflict, we individually and collectively demonstrate our commitment to being an inclusive community. To hold space for those with whom we disagree.

This spring, we have curated two university-wide series to spark conversations affirming our commitment to equity and inclusion amid rising tensions.

Do your part and engage by listening to a speaker, viewing a documentary, reading the community commitments, and moving beyond proximity to build community.

Navigating Tensions, Affirming Community Speaker Series

Meet the Speakers

Hate is on the rise.

In both expressions (speech) and incidents (violent and vandalism), rising hate is a reality of our national climate. This documentary series focuses on recent alarming incidents of hate and its impact on targeted communities to remind us all that, unchecked, hate kills.

Do not look away.

 

Reject Hate Documentary Series

Discover the Documentaries

Reject Polarization  

Meet this moment with humanity.

Visit the Reject Hate page