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Diversity Council
| Committee Name: | Diversity Council |
| Advisory to: | Vice president for Student Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer President |
| Charge: | The Diversity Council serves as the all-university governance committee charged with building an institution-wide capacity to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse campus that embraces diversity as one of our core values, infusing every aspect of campus life and purpose, and every measure of success. The council recognizes a very broad and inclusive concept of diversity that includes commonly recognized considerations such as race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability status, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, sexual orientation, religion and regional or national origin. It will guide the univerity’s efforts to conceptualize, define assess, nurture and cultivate diversity and inclusion as institutional and educational resources at the university. |
| Composition: | Chair (convenes/chairs meetings, sets agenda, provides reports) Chief Diversity Officer Two students (one from Student Government; one from Graduate Student Association) Two faculty selected by the Faculty Senate A dean representing the Academic Operations Committee Two representatives of academic units appointed by the provosts Two representatives of administrative units including the associate VP for Human Resources, appointed by the president (e.g., Athletics, Organizational Development, etc.) Three representatives of Student Affairs and Services appointed by the VP Student Affairs Associate Vice President, Enrollment Management Director of Equal Opportunity Representative of UC|International Representative of University Communications Representative of the university president Two members of the Cincinnati community (one alumnus, one non-alumnus) Representative of the Center for the City Representative of Institutional Planning Director, Student Activities and Leadership Development Representative, UC Alumni Center One representative each: faculty affairs, provost's offices (East and West) Representative, campus interfaith community Dean, The Graduate School Representative, LGBTQ |
| Current Roster/Terms: | Roster |
| Meeting Schedule: | Monthly |
| Contact Person: | Kathy Ogden, 513-556-4119, kathy.ogden@uc.edu |