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Building a Community of Dignity and Respect

Building a Community of Dignity and Respect

This campaign begins our affirmative emphasis on campus climate, describing who we want to be and combining old and new resources and programming to help us build the community of our aspirations.

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Anna Branch Introducing the Learning Communities Initiative

Learning Opportunities

The University of Massachusetts is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in the classroom. This means integrating diversity into the curriculum in a systematic way and also preparing students and instructors to manage diverse perspectives when dealing with the unexpected.

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Stand United. Fight Hate.

Stand United. Fight Hate.

Hateful acts aim to intimidate and hinder our goals of inclusive community. We reject hatred and launched the Hate Has No Home at UMass campaign in August 2017 to make clear our aspirations to be a community that collectively rejects hate. 

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Climate Ambassadors

Dignity & Respect in Action: Community Conversations

Climate Conversations will continue this spring with 'Dignity and Respect in Action: Community Conversations'. Part of the Dignity and Respect Campaign, these conversations will be focused on creating dialogue and developing skills for building more inclusive campus communities. 

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Grant to Foster Equity

With the $3 million ADVANCE IT grant, an interdisciplinary team from four UMass Amherst colleges will focus on using collaboration as a tool for fostering equity for women and male faculty of color in science and engineering fields. It is believed to be the largest social science-led interdisciplinary grant ever awarded to UMass Amherst.

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Building Bridges Art Installation at UMass

Building Bridges Inspires Connection

Building Bridges seeks to draw on the power of solidarity and creative expression to bring people together across race, religion, class, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, nationality, & more. 

   
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Understanding the Forces that Drive us Apart: A symposium on Polarization

February 5, 2019, Campus Center. This symposium is open to the public, and we welcome all students, staff, and faculty.  Our goal through this symposium is to help participants make sense of the political and social turmoil around them, both on campus and beyond. 

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Building a Community of Dignity and Respect
Anna Branch Introducing the Learning Communities Initiative
Stand United. Fight Hate.
Climate Ambassadors
ADVANCE Institutional Grant Image
Building Bridges Art Installation at UMass

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“Our Immigrant Voices” Banner on Display in Whitmore

The campus community is invited to view the 20-foot mural “Our Immigrant Voices,” on display in Whitmore Administration Building, third...

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Diversity Events

Lecia Brooks, Jelani Cobb, Daniel Ziblatt
Feb 5, 2019
Understanding the Forces that Drive Us Apart: A Symposium on Polarization

This daylong symposium will help participants understand the history and dynamics of political and social polarization as well as offer...

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