In September, Chancellor Haefner announced the 2020-2021 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Action Plan to further define DU's efforts to substantively and urgently address issues of DEI on campus this year. In building capacity toward these action items, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) has hired two program coordinators to support the work of the plan and made progress in achieving many goals.
This month, the reconvened Native American Community Advisory Board (NACAB) came together for a virtual meeting, as promised in my October 21 letter. Minutes from the meeting, including a list of attendees comprised of the NACAB members, as well as DU faculty and staff, will be available online soon.
The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion would like to announce and welcome our new ODEI Fellows.
We want to take this opportunity in acknowledging and kicking-off Native American Heritage Month to ask our community to redouble its efforts to educate ourselves, and our wider networks, about our distinct and fraught relationship with Indigenous peoples.
The University of Denver invites you to update your personal demographic information. The information you provide is confidential and will enable us to report accurate aggregate demographic data about our community. It will also allow us to be as accurate as possible when responding to requests for this information, as we are occasionally required to do.
I write to you today in response to the USG resolution, which reflects the voices of our student leaders, activists and their allies on campus.