Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Emily A. Tobey Associate Vice President for Faculty Diversity

Arthur L. Gregg, Assistant Vice President for Multicultural Affairs & Director of the Multicultural Center

Dr. Peter Park, Chair of the Committee for Diversity & Equity

Rosie Peterson, Director of Institutional Diversity Initiatives

Raul Hinojosa Jr., Director of Community Engagement

Lauren DeCillis, Director of the Galerstein Women's Center

I am part of all that I have met.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

No one can be best at everything
But when all of us combine our talents,
We can be the best at virtually anything.
-- Dan Zadra

There is someone smarter than any of us,
And that is all of us.
-- Michael Nolan

I’m good; you’re good.
Together we’re better.
-- Dick Perl

Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don’t point out that people are different.
-- Colin Quinn

You don’t get harmony when everyone sings the same note.
-- Doug Floyd

The word communication comes from the Latin “communico”
meaning, “to come together.”
-- Don Ward

When different talents and ideas rub up against each other, there is friction, yes. But also sparks, fire, light and eventually – brilliance!
-- Nancie O’Neill

Let’s place a high value on unity rather than uniformity.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
-- General George S. Patton

Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static or dynamic.
-- Evelyn Waugh

Seeking diversity automatically leads us to excellence Just as focusing on excellence inevitably leads us to diversity.
-- William C. Steele

Diversity : The art of thinking independently together.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
-- Walter Lippman

Diversity is a competitive advantage.
Different people approach similar problems in different ways.
-- Rich McGinn

It is a mistake to surround yourself only with people just like you. Throw off that warm comforter and replace it with a crazy quilt of different and imaginative people. Then watch the ideas erupt!
-- Betty Bender

The most successful companies, communities, and nations will be those that are willing to learn from others. From diversity will come creative fusion. And creative fusion will become a strategic tool in the era of global competition.
-- Sheridan Tatsuno

What Diversity “problem?”
Diversity creates one and only one thing: opportunity.
-- Tom Peters

The great organizations are those that celebrate differences.
They seek harmony, not uniformity.
They hire talent, not color.
They strive for oneness, not sameness.
-- Gil Atkinson

Ideas bring people together, but ideals hold them together.
-- Bill Meyer

Community is a group of individuals that is greater than the sum of its parts.
-- Mark Sofield

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

We are, of course, a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
-- Jimmy Carter

Accomplishments have no color, no gender.
-- Leontyne Price

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

We can make a difference.
We can change the world.
Because we are the difference.
We are the world.
-- Frederico Pena