University College Council for Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Change (CDEIC)
Our Mission:
We, University College, confront our tolerance for inequality.
We hold in our attention this truth: Our community is deeply bruised by the legacies of oppression, explicit and implicit. These legacies are embedded within the foundation, ethos, policies, and practices of higher education.
To heal: We must sound the silences; approach the injustices; tend to the injuries; seek accountability and forgiveness; imagine and create a more equitable community for teaching, learning, and working.
Our mission, our collective will, demands that we make education a just and respectful process in which every beautifully unique, multifaceted individual will sing and be sung, will shine, and will flourish.
Motto
By Langston Hughes
I play it cool
And dig all jive
That’s the reason
I stay alive.
My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.
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Poem: Langston Hughes, "Motto" From The Collected Works Of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 By Langston Hughes. Reprinted By Permission Of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
Painting: ©Aaron Douglass, "The Toiler" (c. 1935)
- Bonnie Boaz (FI)
- Christina Davis (IDS; CDEIC Associate Chair)
- Audrina Farrar (IDS)
- Laila Hendricks (Student Member)
- Christopher Jackson (FI; CDEIC Chair)
- Kiara Lee (FI)
- Stephanie Rizzi (UC Associate Dean, ex officio)
- Zaniah Woodruff (Student Member)
- Paul Yoon (FI; CDEIC Recording Secretary)
2022-2023:
- Lee Biggs (UC Administrative Staff)
- Christina Davis (IDS; CDEIC Associate Chair)
- Christopher Jackson (FI; CDEIC Chair)
- Joan Kalyan (FI)
- Troy Martin (FI)
- Christopher Martiniano (FI)
- Richard Quarshie (IDS)
- Stephanie Rizzi (UC Associate Dean, ex officio)
- Carver Weakley (FI)
- Zaniah Woodruff (Student Member, Spring 2023)
- Paul Yoon (FI; CDEIC Recording Secretary)
2022 Summer Subcommittee:
- Ciera Harris (UC Administrative Staff; CDEIC Co-Chair)
- Christopher Jackson (FI; CDEIC Co-Chair)
- Joan Kalyan
- Christopher Martiniano
2021-2022:
- Tanya Boucicaut (FI)
- Ywone Edwards-Ingram (FI)
- Elizabeth Fagan (FI)
- Julianne Guillard (FI)
- Ciera Harris (UC Administrative Staff; CDEIC Co-Chair, Spring 2022)
- Christopher Jackson (FI; CDEIC Co-Chair, Spring 2022)
- Joan Kalyan (FI)
- Troy Martin (FI)
- Christopher Martiniano (FI)
- Richard Quarshie (IDS)
- Stephanie Rizzi (FI)
- Carver Weakley (FI; Recording Secretary)
- Felecia Williams (UC Associate Dean and CDEIC Chair, Fall 2021)
2020-2021:
- Tanya Boucicaut (FI)
- Ywone Edwards-Ingram (FI)
- Elizabeth Fagan (FI)
- Hannah Franz (UC Administrative Staff)
- Christopher Jackson (FI)
- Joan Kalyan (FI)
- Troy Martin (FI)
- Christopher Martiniano (FI)
- Adebayo Ogungbade (Student Member)
- Richard Quarshie (IDS)
- Stephanie Rizzi (FI)
- Judy Topich (FI)
- Hope Walker (UC Administrative Staff)
- Carver Weakley (FI; Recording Secretary)
- Felecia Williams (Associate Dean and CDEIC Chair)