Lead
Tara Tuttle (Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Lewis Honors College)
Purpose
This project will make recommendations to the DEI Leadership Team related to expanding and restructuring the Diversity and Inclusion Officer positions within colleges and units.
Progress
Project 5 team members were established in Fall 2020 and contribute a broad range of roles, responsibilities, insights and backgrounds to the group as Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Officers. This group endeavors to deliberately step back and re-examine how, from the perspective of current D&I Officers, DEI can best be embedded across colleges. This allows the group to push back on the pattern in higher education of concentrating DEI on one person or unit. Instead, the goal is to turn to those currently tasked with diversity and equity roles to examine how we can best embed DEI practices in colleges and continue to support those involved with DEI work so they can be successful.
Committee Members
- Mia Farrell (College of Agriculture, Food and Environment)
- Vanessa Jackson (College of Agriculture, Food and Environment)
- Janice Kuperstein (College of Health Sciences)
- Jen Martin (UK Libraries)
- Clem Stambaugh (College of Dentistry)
- Tara Tuttle (Lewis Honors College)