Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DEI at EHD
DEI Programming
At EHD, we have many opportunities to connect, learn, and engage in collaborative learning and community-building around DEI topics and themes. Through programming and events, EHD cultivates an inclusive culture of learning and discovery that embraces a broad range of ideas and approaches, supports dialogue, and strives to engage the entire community. EHD urges diverse representation and participation of people from all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and skillsets.
Student Engagement
Our EHD students have distinguished themselves by being involved in work at the nexus of diversity, equity, and inclusion advocacy and education. Our student-started and student-led groups and committees uniquely contribute to the cadence of life in our School by fostering a more justice-minded learning and communal environment. Learn more about their histories, their programming, and their members.
Diversity Action Committee (DAC)
Our Diversity Action Committee (DAC) has served as a bedrock for our diversity efforts, promoting actions that lead to a culture and atmosphere where all faculty, staff, and students can reach their full potential. Composed of faculty, staff, and students, DAC works closely with the Faculty Council and the school's Office of DEI to enact the school’s equity-minded mission.
University DEI Resources
Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Center for Race and Public Education in the South
CRPES conducts and supports research and scholarship on issues that lie at the intersection of race, education and schooling in the southern United States.
Acknowledgements
Before I/we begin, please join me/us in acknowledging the Monacan People as the traditional custodians of the land in and around the lands we are on today. Dispossessed from these lands and continuing to live with that legacy, I/we pay respects to their elders past and present. My/Our acknowledgment of the Monacan People reflects a commitment to respect and greater inclusion through a formal recognition of those who were here first and whose continued presence is important to our future.
I/We also acknowledge and pay respect to the individual lives of the African peoples and their descendants who were forced to dedicate their labor to the construction of what is now the University of Virginia. Scholars estimate that at least 5,000 enslaved Black enslaved laborers worked on the Grounds, with many in residence, starting with the construction of the Lawn in 1817 and lasting through the end of the Civil War in 1865. These enslaved people built and then sustained the everyday life of the University.
These acknowledgments are but one form of a public intervention, but serve a necessary step toward honoring the Monacan People and Enslaved Laborers. I/We reflect on the injustices committed to these native communities and enslaved peoples. I/We honor their stories, told and untold, and their descendants past, and leaders, present and emerging.
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Research
We believe that the study of equity, inclusion, and race is an integral part of the study of education. Below are just a few examples of the research centers, labs, or projects that are actively researching how to address the needs of a culturally diverse society.
DEI News
The Pursuit of Educational Freedom: Bettina L. Love Delivers 2023 Ridley Lecture
The award-winning author and professor spoke to the UVA EHD community about Black joy, what it means to be an abolitionist teacher, and how to fight injustice within schools and communities.
Contact Us
Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We engage in policy, initiatives, programming, funding opportunities and professional development aligned with the diversity and equity goals of the school.
- 434-924-0742
- [email protected]
- Bavaro Hall 118