InclusiveVT
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Dear Higher Education: Letters from the Social Justice Mountain speaks to a sociopolitical, legal, and cultural environment that seeks to erase, silence, and render invisible the work of social justice in higher education. Contributors representing a diversity of racial, gender, sexuality, and disability identities resist this erasure through personal letters, appealing to higher education to address head-on the challenges to institutional equity to fulfill its highest aspirations. Using a fluid digital conversation space, Dear Higher Education raises up the voices of those who have been laboring to make campus environments more diverse, equitable, and just.
Read the 23 letters in the inaugural issue, covering a range of issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the US and globally.
https://z.umn.edu/dearhighered
Advancing InclusiveVT Winter Gathering
January 28, 2025
1:00PM - 5:00PM EST
Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center
LiveStream and In-Person
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Lisa Garcia Bedolla
Register for this event here
https://forms.office.com/r/vz3aQpbccF
Virginia Tech Advantage is an integrated program to provide a broad educational experience to undergraduates from the Commonwealth of Virginia who have financial need.
Two university-level working groups developed strategies to enhance undergraduate student experiences and financial feasibility. Among them: a) increasing financial support for undergraduate students, and b) increasing support for basic needs, career preparation, and transformational learning experiences.
Menah’s Meditation: On Endings and Beginnings
“The end is where we start from.” – T.S. Eliot
Once again, we find ourselves at the end of the fall semester and calendar year. It seems like January 1 was so long ago, and I am sure so much has changed for so many of us over the past twelve months.
Sitting in my office reflecting on this moment, there is so much to be grateful for: our faculty and staff for their tireless commitment to our Principles of Community and InclusiveVT, the individual and institutional commitment to Ut Prosim (That I May Serve) in the spirit of community, diversity, and excellence. I’m grateful for their engagement in campus workshops, initiatives, and programs as part of their professional development, curiosity, and desire to ensure a positive campus climate for everyone. I appreciate our leadership, including the president, provosts, deans, vice-presidents, and vice provosts, for their unwavering support of the important work of inclusion, belonging, and community.
Inclusive Campus Resources
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The Janie Hoge Memorial Scholarship Fund
From 1953 to 1959, Janie Hoge and her husband William, housed eight Black Virginia Tech students in their home at 306 Clay Street. At this time, segregation prevented the students from participating in any non-academic amenities, including living or eating on campus.
Every day, Janie prepared three meals, cleaned their bedrooms, washed and ironed their clothing, and provide them with a safe, caring and supportive home. Partially due to her efforts and their own fortitude, these students would achieve success.
Honor Mrs. Hoge’s legacy by giving to the Janie Hoge Memorial Scholarship. Our goal is to raise $100,000. This endowment will support students in perpetuity.
VirTual Safe Zone: A new campus model for personal and professional development.
Virginia Tech was chosen as a Diversity Champion in the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award selection from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. As a recipient of the annual HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion — Virginia Tech will be featured, along with other recipients, in the November/December 2023 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. This honor is bestowed upon a limited number of colleges and universities across the nation, and this is the eighth consecutive year Virginia Tech has been named as a HEED Award recipient.
The Vice President's Corner
The Office for Inclusion and Diversity and the diversity liaisons, directors, deans, and committees across campus are a powerful resource and I hope that each of you will be even more engaged and involved this year by attending and participating in programs and learning opportunities. Our website has been updated and is a wealth of information. Please visit it regularly at www.inclusive.vt.edu.