Equity and Inclusion
Definition:
Understand, respect, and advocate for diverse perspectives and engagement with cross-cultural viewpoints individually, as a community and organizationally.
Examples of Expected Behaviors:
- Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of diverse others and leads to personal growth
- Identify resources and eliminate barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism, inequities and bias
- Solicit and utilize feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make inclusive and equity-minded decisions
- Actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change
Skills examples include:
- Awareness of otherness (gender, race, religion, age, disabilities, nationality, lifestyle, etc.)
- Multiculturalism
- Inclusion
- Community change
- Volunteerism
- Civic responsibility
- Curiosity about local, regional, national and global current events
- Cross-cultural competence (ability to discern and account for one’s own and other’s world views)
