About our strategic vision
Our mission is to promote a unified community of inclusion, respect, and excellence through the recruitment of diverse talent and the inclusion of broad perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences in our student, staff, and faculty communities.
Letter from the Assistant Dean
Welcome to our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion web pages. You'll find resources for faculty and staff, current students, prospective students, and postdocs. You can find materials for best practices in our community resources library. There are also various avenues through which you can participate, including attending our events, monitoring our progress, giving feedback, reporting issues, and finding support for your academic professional development.
Our Community Vision
Our office helps create access to educational pathways in the field of Sustainability and cultivates an academic environment that embraces many different perspectives.
Spanning three years (2021-2024), the Action Plan's priorities include educating the community about outreach, recruitment and professional development pathways, while also enhancing support for an inclusive environment, engaging with university partners and broad networks to share opportunities, and expecting success across departments and units. Progress is shared publicly on the Action Plan milestone website.
To contribute to these goals, the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion office organizes programs, provides resources, and leads inclusion efforts. We host informal “Coffee Convos” open to the entire Stanford community in honor of various cultural months and celebrations. We also give trainings such as Respectful Community Workshops throughout the year.
By understanding and celebrating the various experiences and pathways to academia, we can build a more inclusive educational and scientific environment for everyone.
From vision to practice
Building on the work created by our Respectful & Inclusive Workshop program (2006) and the Office of Multicultural Affairs (2010) established by Professor Emeritus Jerry Harris to diversify the geosciences pipeline, our 2021–2024 Strategic Vision, Goals and Action Plan was developed under the awareness of varying academic pathways to the field of sustainability. Against this backdrop, we are determined to improve and expand our outreach, recruitment and professional development organizational practices and to create an inclusive school for all.
The plan is a roadmap outlining current and future efforts around inclusive best practices and training, broad enhancements to the student, faculty and staff experience, improved engagement, expanded outreach and student recruitment, and measures for progress. The action plan is organized around four areas that inform our school's efforts:
- Educate more members of our community about inclusive best practices.
- Enhance support and resources to create an inclusive environment for our community members.
- Engage and partner with university partners, organizations, and broad networks to recruit and share educational and career opportunities.
- Expect positive outcomes across research groups, departments/programs, and administrative units.
Lupe Carrillo
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We can all play a role in making the future of this school more inclusive and ensuring that our vision is realized and sustained.