Inclusive Excellence and Racial Equity: University-wide updates

The  Racial Equity Task Force (Kevin McDonald, Ian Solomon, Barbara Brown Wilson) has been assembled. This effort will be aligned with Inclusive Excellence, with the objective of cataloguing all prior and current demands and developing a prioritized action list by the end of the summer. 

The task force has launched a robust website that includes a list of demands and prior documents that they are studying, an opportunity to Share Your Ideas, and a place to sign up for email updates. The task force will be holding and attending many group meetings (faculty and staff senate, for example) and will also hold a Public Listening and Idea Session on July 10th at 2pm. Register here. 

As mentioned above, the Inclusive Excellence efforts will be tightly aligned with recommendations coming from the Racial Equity Task Force. The University’s IE framework will be expanded to add a sixth dimension of Repair & Reconciliation, to the existing five dimensions (Access + Success, Climate + Intergroup Relations, Education + Scholarship, Infrastructure + Investment, Community + Partnership). 

UVAFinance has a working committee for anyone interested in participating in these efforts locally. We will be partnering with the institutional efforts and developing a local plan that will include specific, measurable goals for the next year.  More details available here.