Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (OHEDI) created this toolkit to support your efforts to launch the Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity, aka the “I-DARE” Taskforce Initiative in your department. This one year initiative is designed to catalyze the formation of departmental DEI taskforces to address immediate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) needs, train future leaders, and most importantly utilize a standardized departmental needs assessment to develop sustainable departmental and institutional action plans to advance the UC Davis Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Strategic Vision. The Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision developed five goals and objectives from nearly thirty campus community “engagement forums” and individual and group meetings with faculty, staff, and students. These goals are summarized below. You can access the full document at https://diversity.ucdavis.edu/about/strategic-plan. Furthermore, we will elaborate each goal and best practices to advance these goals in a later section of the toolkit.