Diversity Week 2021 - Save the Dates!
“Cultural Conversations: Celebrating the Social Significance of Ethnicity” is the
theme of WVU’s Diversity Week 2021, scheduled for October 10-16.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Do you have an idea for a Diversity Week event?
What is diversity? What is inclusion? We’re here for meaningful conversations, so let’s start by defining some of the terms we use.
The world is awash with books, podcasts, music and more that help move the conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion forward. Check out some of our current staff recommendations.
Have you checked your implicit biases? (We all have them.) Take a few moments to explore the Harvard Implicit Bias Test.
Knowing what resources are available on- and off-campus gives you the tools you need to help yourself and others who have experienced gender-based discrimination, including sexual violence, power-based personal violence and harassment. WVU has a zero-tolerance policy for these types of offenses and is pro-actively working to make them rare; but it’s on us as a Mountaineer family to help one another wherever and whenever we can.
Learn more: Equity Assurance
Join us on YouTube for Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Meshea L. Poore's weekly series of short videos, exploring topics centered on helping members of the WVU community live, learn and work together with care and respect for each other.
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Diversity Ambassador
Sophomore / Biology
Sudhanshu Mishra is a junior Biology major from India. He believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are components that play a significant role in everyone's life and thus it is imperative to absorb and embody these ideas in ourselves. He thinks many students are unaware of the great resources WVU provides to students throughout the campus. He has become a Diversity Ambassador to learn and inform others around him about creating an all-inclusive environment for everyone. He looks forward to engaging in interesting and innovative conversations with all his friends around campus and beyond.
At WVU we celebrate that we’re made up of Mountaineers from all walks of life.
West Virginia University will be known for honoring the worth of every individual, and sustaining an environment where all people are encouraged to achieve their full potential.
West Virginia University, with its statewide institutional presence, resides on land that includes ancestral territories of the Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora), Cherokee, and many other Indigenous peoples.
In acknowledging this, we recognize and appreciate those Indigenous nations whose territories we are living on and working in. Indigenous peoples have been in the land currently known as West Virginia since time immemorial.
It is important that we understand both the context that has brought our university community to reside on this land, and our place within this long history.
We also recognize that colonialism is a current ongoing process, and as scholars seeking truth and understanding, we need to be mindful of our present participation in this process.
(Developed Fall 2019 w/input from NAS Committee members, especially Dr. Charlotte Hoelke, and after NAS Program consultation with tribes, to be read at NAS public events and included in NAS syllabi, and shared with others, including WVU Humanities Center, Morgantown Human Rights Commission, et al. This statement can and should be modified as circumstances dictate, to be as inclusive, relevant, and accurate as possible. Bonnie M. Brown, NAS Coord.)
A Soundtrack4Justice playlist can fuel you and/or can serve as a conversation starter with family and friends. Here’s ours on Spotify.
Check us out on Spotify. View past soundtracks.
West Virginia University is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture by promoting diversity, inclusion, equality, and intercultural and intercommunity outreach. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, marital or family status, pregnancy, veteran status, service in the uniformed services (as defined by state and federal law), religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or gender expression in the administration of any of its educational programs, activities, or with respect to admission or employment.
– Board of Governors Rule 1.6
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