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Mission, vision and goals
- Mission
- Provide leadership
to and work in partnership with UW Extension employees and the community
to achieve and sustain diversity and equity for our employees, clientele,
and educational partners, and assure compliance with all relevant civil
rights laws.
- Vision
- The UW Extension Office
of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Programs appreciates and understands
the value of diversity, and will work to create and sustain it among employees,
clientele, and educational partners.
- Staff in this department
view multiculturalism and pluralism as essential components of our mission
and work. Consistent with the UW-Extension Design for Diversity goals,
this department will work in partnership with all UW-Extension divisions
to attain this vision.
- Goals
- Work proactively
to eliminate the underrepresentation of persons of color and economically
disadvantaged people in UW-Extension operations and educational programming.
- Educate UW-Extension
students, clientele, and stakeholders for an increasingly multicultural
society in Wisconsin, our nation, and the world.
- Improve recruitment,
employment, and retention efforts to assure better representation of
minorities, women, and persons with disabilities across all levels of
the institution.
- Improve outreach
efforts to ameliorate the underrepresentation of minorities and economically
disadvantaged people in Extension educational programming and on its
boards and committees.
- Establish and maintain
effective relations and networks with minority individuals and groups.
- Work proactively to achieve full compliance with federal, state, and
local civil rights laws and regulations.
