Reimagining Equity and Diversity:
A Framework for Transforming
the University of Minnesota
The Office for Equity and Diversity is pleased to present Reimagining Equity and Diversity: A Framework for Transforming the University of Minnesota.
Reimagining Equity and Diversity outlines a vision for transforming the University and supporting its Strategic Positioning goal of being a top-three research institution through the movement of equity and diversity work into the core of the University's teaching, research, and outreach. To achieve this transformation, we must recognize that all of our access and diversity goals, values, and practices are interconnected and interdependent, and that we all share the responsibility for equity and diversity.
Indeed, much good equity and diversity work is already underway at the University, but it will be fully realized and sustainable only as part of an integrated and comprehensive effort. The time has come for us to coordinate our efforts and resources; to agree on common paths; to stay focused but flexible, adjusting our strategies when new circumstances require; and to make University transformation a collective enterprise. Reimagining Equity and Diversityis a holistic model for that enterprise.
Now, working together, we must build the kind of institutional infrastructure that will sustain what we’ve set in motion and take us to the next level. In the same way that the Strategic Positioning process exhorts us to reimagine everything we think we know about the University of Minnesota, Reimagining Equity and Diversity asks that we reimagine everything we think we know about equity and diversity. It asks us to reimagine a University transformed by diversity.
Download the PDF of Reimagining Equity and Diversity: A Framework for Transforming the University of Minnesota (published August 2008).
The Office for Equity and Diversity offers a wide range of resources for University colleges, departments, and administrative units who are working towards their own equity and diversity goals. The Equity and Diversity Resource Guide (published August 2008) provides an overview of these resources.
Printed copies and alternate formats of any OED publication are available by emailing oed@umn.edu or calling 612-624-0594.