Clemmer College Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Clemmer College is committed to promoting the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belongingness through enhancing cultural competency, fostering socially responsible and just leadership, and preparing students for global citizenship. Clemmer College explores our curriculum, history, and engagement with others through the lens of equity and inclusion both inside and outside the classroom. We promote these values in scholarly activities, teaching, research, service, and recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and staff. Clemmer College aims to foster a safe environment that facilitates questioning, open dialogue, diverse perspectives, critical thinking, and life-long learning.
Clemmer College explores our curriculum, history, and engagement with others through many vantage points including, but not limited to the lens of equity and inclusion both inside and outside the classroom. Clemmer College aims to supply students with the skills needed to address social and economic disparities and barriers, working towards the betterment of conditions for all. Our goals to increase diversity and cultural competence are tied to our academic mission to provide our students with the requisite awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to succeed in a highly diverse world.
Our work is guided by the core principles and values of Clemmer College and ETSU, which articulate the importance of people and authenticity, embracing diversity of thought and culture, and promoting an environment where people come first. Through these values, we develop our students into responsible community stewards and leaders that enhance the cultural, social, and economic development of our region and beyond.
Definitions
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Diversity
Clemmer College defines diversity as our commitment to acknowledge and increase diverse representation within our community and region, which may be expressed through race and ethnicity, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socioeconomic status, language, culture, national origin, veteran status, and political perspective. -
Equity
Clemmer College defines equity as our commitment to ensuring fair opportunity and access, treatment, advancement, and distribution of resources for all persons; and to actively challenge biases, discrimination, power distribution, and systems that have historically perpetuated barriers leading to disparities in society. -
Inclusion
Clemmer College defines inclusion as our commitment to pursuing efforts that perpetuate a culture within the college where all feel welcomed, respected, supported, and able to participate and contribute, as well as valued for the differences that make them unique. -
Justice
Clemmer College defines justice as our commitment to enacting and upholding policies and practices that achieve fair treatment and equitable access, opportunities, and outcomes for all. -
Belongingness
Clemmer College sees belongingness as the outcome of creating a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just environment, where people feel as though they can be their authentic selves, all feel connected and valued, and multiple views and beliefs are integrated.
ETSU and Clemmer College Land Acknowledgement Statement
We would like to acknowledge that ETSU and Clemmer College reside on the territory that was taken from the Cherokee people. The Cherokee people were once spread across the lands of southeast and eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, western South Carolina, North Georgia, and Northeast Alabama. Today, the Eastern Band of Cherokee resides within the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina. We hope that this acknowledgement will serve as a reminder to all of us to recognize and honor those who were here before us and to respect and care for the land in which we reside.