多样性、股票 & 包含定义

The following terms and their meanings can help foster understanding as we work to achieve the goals of the University's 多样性、股票 & 包容(DEI)战略计划 and create a more equitable, inclusive campus culture.

反种族主义
The active process of identifying, challenging, and confronting 种族歧视 (inequities based on race). This active process requires confronting systems, 组织结构, 政策, 实践, 行为, 和态度. This active process should seek to redistribute power in an effort to foster equitable outcomes (National Association of 多样性 Officers in Higher Education, 2021)

慈悲修女会的重要关切
The Sisters of Mercy were founded out of a deep concern for the needs of persons who are poor. Today, we focus our ministry on those needs identified through our “critical concerns.” We address these concerns through prayer; our own communal life as a 宗教 congregation; education; advocacy with legislators and other leaders; and corporate eng年龄ment. The five critical concerns include that of: earth, 移民, 非暴力, 种族歧视, 和女人(慈悲修女会), 2021)

文化谦卑
Desire and 能力 to maintain an other-oriented interpersonal stance in relation to features of cultural identity that are important to others. (Hook等)., 2013)

DACA
童年抵美暂缓遣返计划(DACA). A policy allowing that certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several key guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, 以续期为准. (U.S. 公民及移民服务局,2021年)

多样性
The presence, recognition and eng年龄ment of people with individual differences (e.g., personality, prior knowledge, and life experiences) and group/social differences (e.g., 种族/民族, class, 性别, 性取向, 原产国, 能力和文化, 政治, 宗教, or other affiliations) 美国大学协会 & 大学,n.d.)

股本
A process of modifying structures and 实践 that have intentionally or unintentionally advant年龄d or disadvant年龄d groups of people; it is a process that responds to unjust structural outcomes to create laws, 政策, 实践 and traditions that support just outcomes for all. 俄亥俄州代顿大学.d.)

包容
一种积极的过程和实践, intentional and sustained eng年龄ment of each person in the community that values and respects their perspectives, 多重身份, 经历与贡献. 俄亥俄州代顿大学.d.)

包容的卓越
认识到多样性, 股本 and inclusion are fundamental to academic and institutional excellence. 包容性卓越需要全面, cohesive and collaborative alignment of infrastructure, 资源和行动. 美国大学协会 & 大学,n.d.)

Inclusive-Focused课程
虽然很多课程都包含多样性, 股本, 以及包容性话题, 以包容性为重点的课程具有多样性, 股本, 包容是一个重要的主题. This is clearly evident in the course description and learning objectives of the course.

跨信仰
订婚, cooperation and/or dialogue across 宗教 or worldviews differences that involves forming relationships, fostering positive attitudes and developing appreciative knowledge among people (Adapted from University of Dayton Ohio)

交集
A framework for conceptualizing interlocking oppressions based on the interconnected nature of historically and systemically oppressed, 代表性不足和少数群体. As identities do not exist independently of each other, intersectionality makes visible the complex convergence of overlapping and interdependent systems of privilege and oppression. 俄亥俄州代顿大学.d.)

无形的劳动
The unrecognized work underrepresented 教师 和工作人员 members are called on to do by virtue of that status: mentoring students who see aspects of themselves in their professors, 例如, or otherwise engaging in inclusion and diversity work. (改编自弗莱厄蒂,2019年) 

Minoritized
指学生团体的成员, 教师, 工作人员, 政府, 父母, 受托人, 忍受虐待的校友和客人, and face prejudices that are enforced upon them because of situations and characteristics outside of their control. 这些可能包括种族, 宗教/精神/信仰, 种族, 能力, 国家的起源, 移民身份, 性, 性别认同, 性别表达, 性取向, social class/socioeconomic status and langu年龄. (这个列表并不详尽.)

特权
列举优点, favors and benefits conferred on members of dominant groups at the expense of members of marginalized, 少数群体:未被充分代表或少数群体. It operates and conveys power on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels. The scope and depth are largely invisible to those who have it. 俄亥俄州代顿大学.d.)

种族歧视
种族歧视 is the process by which systems and 政策, actions 和态度 create inequitable opportunities and outcomes for people based on race. (澳大利亚人权委员会,n.d.)

Sisters of Mercy on 种族歧视: We work to become an anti-racist community—committed to eliminating personal and institutional 种族歧视 and dismantling oppressive structures, 政策和流程.

激进的怜悯
一种自信的性格,尊重他人, 完整性, 服务, and 社会正义 in a Diverse World as central to one’s lifestyle and choices, especially as related to members of the GMercyU Community.

社会正义
The work to eliminate historic and systemic oppression and to build systems and cultures of human dignity where rights, 问责制, 股本, inclusion and access to the common good create conditions for people and communities to realize their full potential. 俄亥俄州代顿大学.d.)

未被充分代表的人口
Describes the extent to which the proportion of certain U.S. racial/ ethnic groups relative to the total campus 人口 fails to mirror their proportion in the broader U.S. 人口. 为了我们的目的, the term underrepresented 人口s refers to members of the student body, 教师, 工作人员, 政府, 父母, 受托人, alumni and guests who self-identify with real and socially constructed human dimensions of race and 种族, 包括美国人/阿拉斯加本地人, 黑色/非裔美国人, Latinx /西班牙/ Chicanx, 亚裔美国人, 夏威夷人/太平洋岛民, 混血或多种族, 性别认同. 俄亥俄州代顿大学.d.) 

联系人:
塔蒂亚娜·迪亚兹,多元化和公平的副总裁 & 包容
迪亚兹.t@litpliant.net 
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