Inclusive Excellence Plans
At the University of Virginia we are engaging the Inclusive Excellence (IE) framework to synergize and support our collective diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging efforts. We feel strongly that a collaborative and area specific approach to IE planning, while using a collective framework and vision, offers the greatest opportunity to co-create goals and actions that will cultivate and sustain equity and transformational organizational change. Based on UVA's 2030 Strategic Plan the following specific vision statements have oriented our institution-wide planning efforts to build for collective impact. To lean more about the planning process and access toolkits and resources for continued engagement and planning visit our IE planning website.
- Access + Success
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Recruit and support exceptionally talented, diverse, and service-oriented students. Recruit , support, and retain excellent and diverse faculty and staff.
- Climate + Intergroup Relations
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Continuously promote and strengthen an inclusive community of trust, a culture of integrity, mutual respect, excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
- Education + Scholarship
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Enable faculty, staff, and students to work across traditional boundaries and prepare servant-leaders to shed new light on enduring and profound questions in our diverse community and globally connected world.
- Infrastructure + Investment
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Be a community that consistently lives its values and ensure that our systems enable our students, faculty, and staff to do their best work.
- Community + Partnership
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Be a strong partner with and good neighbor to our region, contributing to economic and social well-being by providing accessible healthcare, innovative education, opportunity, and engaging alumni.
To learn more about the specific goals and action plans supporting inclusive excellence at the University of Virginia and UVA College at Wise access the School/Area plan you are interested in from the list below. While each area will have different timelines for strategies and actions identified in their plans, the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, in partnership with the Office for Institutional Research and Analytics, will be annually publishing a series of metrics tracking overall institutional progress and each School/Area will be providing an annual progress and impact report beginning in Fall 2022. Several areas were significantly delayed by the response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. There are many other areas currently engaged in planning work and whose plans will be added to this site as the work continues.
- University Advancement
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UVA Advancement is supporting inclusive excellence through a focus on alumni engagement, the creation of a new position for a Director of Development for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a robust plan for DEI focused learning and development. These are just a few of the key priority areas and you can learn more by accessing the full IE plan for UVA Advancement.
- University Information Technology Services
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UVA ITS is supporting inclusive excellence through a focus on more inclusive hiring practices in support of the goal to increase the representation of historically underrepresented groups in IT, including women. The UVA ITS plan also places a priority on staff learning and development, assessing the ITS work climate, building key competencies for managers, and fostering a more inclusive workplace. These are just a few of the key priority areas and you can learn more by accessing the full IE plan for UVA ITS.
- University Miller Center
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The UVA Miller Center is supporting inclusive excellence through actions that focus on broadening the diversity not only of its staff, faculty, and student employees and researchers but also that of its board and audience. The plan includes goals around analyzing climate, developing DEI knowledge and skills, enhancing website accessibility, and diversifying its pool of faculty and fellows along metrics of gender, race and areas of research focus. These are just a few of the key priority areas and you can learn more by accessing the full IE plan for UVA's Miller Center.
- University College at Wise
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UVA's College at Wise is supporting inclusive excellence through a focus on more inclusive hiring practices in support of the goal to increase the representation of historically underrepresented groups, building capacity within the faculty to support inclusive classroom practices, and focusing on the liberal arts core curriculum to define and incorporate DEI learning outcomes and competencies needed for an interconnected and global world. These are just a few of the key priority areas and you can learn more by accessing the full IE plan for UVA Wise.
- University Operations
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The University Operations area is supporting inclusive excellence through a focus on diversifying leadership, building structures such as an inclusive excellence executive committee to coordinate DEI efforts across the multiple offices that support operations at the University, and developing the knowledge and skills of the Operations workforce to support a sustainable culture and climate of respect. These are just a few of the key priority areas and you can learn more by accessing the full IE plan for UVA Operations, which is a consolidation of plans from across their primary offices and areas.
- McIntire School of Commerce
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The University's McIntire School of Commerce is supporting inclusive excellence through every dimension of their functioning. Building on prior strategic planning in this area the McIntire IE plan includes high impact activities in all areas of the inclusive excellence framework. Access the full IE plan for UVA McIntire to review all of the key priority areas.
- University Communications
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Planning Status: Complete
- University Finance
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UVA Finance engaged in a comprehensive program of self-study and capacity building utilizing the Racial Equity Group's "Equity Audit Assessment" and development opportunities. The UVA Finance plan spans all areas of the Finance portfolio with an emphasis on employee access, support, and development.
- School of Education & Human Development
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The University's School of Education and Human Development is supporting inclusive excellence through every dimension of their functioning. EHD is engaging structural reviews and processes which focus on DEI in the curriculum as well as equity in school policies and practices. The EHD plan also has a significant emphasis on collective development of inclusive skills and competencies as well as a focus on retention activities and analysis. Access the full IE plan for UVA EHD to review all of the key priority areas.
- School of Nursing
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The University's School of Nursing embodies the spirit of inclusive excellence at UVA. The co-created plan includes key activities across every dimension of the framework.
- School of Architecture
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The A-School plan for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) focuses on key strategies in equitable access for faculty, staff, and students as well as expanding student support and resources. The A-School has an area of strength in social-justice based pedagogy and their work will also focus on meaningful and sustainable partnerships with neighborhoods, institutions, communities and organizations who are open to joining them in their work.
- University Library
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Planning Status: Complete
- University Center for Teaching Excellence
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Planning Status: Complete
- University Human Resources
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UVA Human Resources is committed to creating a great place to work and creating opportunities for our colleagues across the University help each other, support the surrounding communities, and create a just and equitable institution for all people. In partnership with UVA's Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, UVA HR promotes awareness of and respect for diversity among UVA faculty, staff and team members, advocates for inclusion and inclusive practices and policies, and ensures equity in human resources programs and processes.
- University Athletics
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UVA Athletics pursues its mission by uniting the varied constituencies of the University community through its intercollegiate and intramural programs. These programs are designed to build support for and add value to the academic purposes of the institution while developing students with strong values of leadership, sportsmanship, equity, citizenship, physical fitness, teamwork, and a commitment to excellence. The UVA Athletics IE plan includes actions across every dimension of the framework with a focus on better understanding the climate, building the knowledge and skills of coaching and support staff to enhance intercultural competence and equity, building bridges with community, and student development.
- School of Data Science
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The School of Data Science views its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as mission-central and integral to the institution's overall future success and has published its first Inclusive Excellence Plan.
- UVA Health
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UVA Health is the organizing entity spanning across the schools of medicine and nursing and the medical center. The overarching strategic vision for UVA Health includes significant priorities contributing to inclusive excellence. You can learn more specifics by accessing the implementation plan for that work, which spans medical and nursing education and scholarship as well as direct provision of care and community health equity goals.