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Inclusive Excellence
Metropolitan State College of Denver values diversity and has identified diversity as one of its strategic planning goals. The Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) works to uphold the values of the college mission and serves as a resource to the Metro State community by providing leadership and oversight on issues related to inclusive excellence. Our goal is to support and promote inclusiveness in all aspects of campus life to include the design and development of initiatives that embrace and support diversity leading to the path of “Inclusive Excellence”.
“Inclusive Excellence” moves beyond numbers and involves embedding practices and philosophies that encourage diversity in every aspect of an organization (Kathleen Nalty, 2007). The term diversity is often linked to numerical representation; however, the term “Inclusive Excellence” promotes institutionalization of systemic practices and philosophies generating a broader outcome with numerical representation serving as a byproduct of inclusive excellence.
“Inclusive Excellence” shifts the responsibilities for diversity toward the institution as opposed to one unit or area having sole responsibility of understanding and implementing the diversity mission. Inclusive excellence moves an institution, organization, or program from valuing diversity – with access and cultural competence as its primary goals – to ensuring through structural interventions that all groups are achieving the desired outcomes at equitable rates.
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