Focus

The VOICES of the Staff network team for Diversity is dedicated to exploring ways to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment.

Objectives

• To examine the selected topic of diversity by offering creative ways to encourage and promote diversity in every work area and department.
• Indentifying innovative strategies to sustain and improve effectiveness in recruiting, retaining and supporting a diverse staff.
• Indentifying rich opportunities for interaction and ways to address institutional barriers to success.
• Identifying ways to provide recognition for staff who demonstrate a commitment to diversity.
• Addressing how to provide an environment where intercultural skills are developed and enacted among diverse campus constituencies and with community partners.
• Exploring ways to create a climate and environment so stimulating and attractive that the experience of difference becomes a source of excellence and an instrument of achievement.

Wins

Please stay tuned for future updates.

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Work in Progress

• The Diversity Team is currently assembling best practice information from within and outside the University of Michigan.

Findings

Recommended Documentary

Moving Forward Through Looking Back: A documentary created by the Business & Finance Diversity Committee for the 2007 MLK Convocation.
Click your choice of WMV or Flash video format.

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Network Team Members

Contact the Diversity Team
voices.diversity@umich.edu

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