Committee for the Support of Diversity and Equity
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The Committee for the Support of Diversity and Equity is a University-wide standing committee reporting directly to the President of The University of Texas at Dallas.
The committee meets regularly to review and discuss issues that affect the institutional status, professional effectiveness and personal morale of women, minorities and members of other underrepresented groups in full and part-time faculty and staff positions. To support its role in understanding and recommending policy with respect to these and related issues, the committee is empowered to carry out studies, conduct interviews and prepare reports. It meets with the president at the beginning and end of each academic year to receive special charges and reports from the administration and to convey to the administration ideas, concerns and advice from the committee that address the issues of eliminating institutional features which differentially and negatively affect women, minorities and members of other underrepresented groups. It is also within the purview of this committee to recommend the creation and initiation of actions and policies which would support the professional careers of these same individuals.
Student Diversity Council
The purpose of the advisory council is to provide the students’ perspective, input and advice to the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement. The council will address the elements of student diversity, concerns, activities and programs to increase awareness and understanding of each other, and to move beyond simple tolerance to embrace and celebrate the rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual.
The group will be lead by the principle that diversity is essential to reaching higher levels of excellence in the multicultural, multi-ethnic and diverse character of the United States in the 21st century. For more information interested persons should contact Rosie Peterson at rpeterson@utdallas.edu.
Student Diversity Council Member Organizations:
Chairperson African Student Union Black Student Alliance Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists Chinese Student Association Delta Epsilon Phi Friendship Association of Chinese Students and Scholars Global Village Indian Student Association International Political Economy Student Association |
Iranian Student Community Ladies of Vision and Excellence (LOVE) League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) National Association of Black Accountants National Society of Black Engineers PRIDE Sigma Lambda Alpha Sigma Lambda Beta (Men of Wisdom) Society of Hispanic Engineers Society of Women Engineers Turkish Student Association |
Committee for the Support of Diversity and Equity Members:
Chairperson Immediate Past Chairperson Magaly Spector, VP for Diversity and Community Engagement Danny Cordova, Assistant Director Douglas Dow, Clinical Associate Professor Russell Edmunds, Endowed Professorship George Eicke, Assistant Director David Ford, Jr, Professor Arthur Gregg, Assistant VP/Director Tomislav Kovandzic, Associate Professor Lisabeth Lassiter, Assistant Director Jacqueline Long, Project Supervisor Sherry Marek, Assistant Director
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Candice Mills, Assistant Professor Haling Minn, Associate Professor Margaret Owen, Professor/Program Head Yolande Evans, Assistant Director Karen Prager, Professor Vivian Rutledge, Assistant Director Kathryn Stecke, Ashbel Smith Professor Emily Tobey, Endowed Chair Diana Willis, School Fiscal Officer Zhang Li, Professor/Program Head Rym Wenkstern, Associate Professor Staff Liaisons Frances Freeman, Assistant VP Rosie Peterson, Director |
