¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Comprehensive Inclusive Excellence Action Plan is the result of an unprecedented and all-inclusive process involving a broad set of stakeholders across our community, including our University Inclusive Excellence Council and all senior leaders. Representatives from every division and college on campus worked with the Office of the Vice Provost for IE to support ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s first-ever data-driven strategic planning process. Each unit developed an Inclusive Excellence Action Plan that utilizes metrics baselined by our 2022 Campus Climate Survey, demographics, and other data points to set their goals. These plans are public, as are their annual progress reports throughout this 5-year implementation period.
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Comprehensive IE Action Plan (Spread Pages) Comprehensive IE Action Plan (Single Pages) Comprehensive Year 1 Annual Report (AY 2023-2024)From our leaders
Message from the President and Provost (2023)
We are pleased to share with you ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s first comprehensive Inclusive Excellence Action Plan. Aligned with our Amplifying Our Impact strategic vision and Academic Success Goals, the plan is a comprehensive strategy to advance Inclusive Excellence at ¶¶Òõ̽̽. This plan is the result of a broad, participatory process in which every unit of the university developed a data-driven Inclusive Excellence Action Plan with unique features and shared goals. The university’s Our Common Ground values underpin every element of this work.
We are grateful to the many members of our community who made this plan possible through their energy, commitment, and collaboration. We now ask everyone at ¶¶Òõ̽̽ to embrace and model Our Common Ground values of justice, openness, respect, integrity, responsibility, and innovation and to build and sustain a culture of belonging, equity, and inclusion for students, faculty, and staff. We are asking our community to move their action plans forward with acknowledgement and understanding of local and global demographic realities.
The university pursues inclusive excellence because doing so will empower us to fulfil our mission as the state’s public flagship land-grant university. We are committed to attracting and retaining world-class, diverse talent to our region to drive innovation and economic impact. Only by fully realizing inclusive excellence will ¶¶Òõ̽̽ and our region to thrive. Inclusive excellence is, indeed, an investment in Vermont’s future.
The ongoing success of the university calls for our deliberate and unwavering focus on equity and inclusion. ¶¶Òõ̽̽ is a thriving university because of the rich diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas our community comprises. This plan charts our course for an even more equitable and inclusive institution right now and far into the future.
Suresh V. Garimella
President, University of Vermont
Patricia A. Prelock
Provost and Senior Vice President, University of Vermont
Message from the Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence (2023)
¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Comprehensive Inclusive Excellence Action Plan is the result of an unprecedented all-inclusive process involving a broad set of stakeholders across our community including our University Diversity Council (UDC) and all senior leaders. With membership from every division and College, the UDC worked with the Office of the Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence to support ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s first-ever data-driven IE strategic planning process. Each unit developed an Inclusive Excellence Action Plan (IEAP) that utilizes metrics baselined by our 2022 Campus Climate Survey, demographics, and other data points to set their goals. These plans are public and will include tracking of progress on an annual basis during this 5-year implementation period.
I want to thank all members of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ community who spent countless hours to ensure that every unit set goals and made concrete commitments to advance Inclusive Excellence in their respective part of the institution. ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s commitment to strategic action on IE should remind all Catamounts that we are a community that boldly works to live into Our Common Ground values: Respect, Integrity, Innovation, Openness, Justice, and Responsibility.
Amer F. Ahmed
Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence
Words into action
¶¶Òõ̽̽ has a noteworthy history of commitment to inclusive excellence. As our institution advances the Amplifying Our Impact strategic vision with a focus on promoting healthy societies and a healthy environment, we must make specific commitments to address historically based and emerging challenges. Meanwhile, the landscape of higher education continues to evolve in response to rapidly shifting dynamics. We must harness this opportunity to impact the world positively through innovation, creativity, and continuous effort by setting and achieving specific, ambitious, and measurable goals.
¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Comprehensive Inclusive Excellence Action Plan helps us to work together effectively across our institution. Each academic and administrative unit created customized Inclusive Excellence Action Plan (IEAP) with measurable goals tailored to the unit’s function. Each plan incorporates Our Common Ground values and, together, they amplified our ability to positively impact our community.