Queens College strives for inclusive excellence and recognizes that institutional success is dependent on valuing, engaging, and promoting inclusion and equity amount our students, staff, and faculty. Inclusive excellence is particularly meaningful to Queens College because of our diverse student population. Our partnership with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Inclusive Excellence (IE3) initiative is an exciting way to continue our striving forward for the community.
Our institution is fortunate to have a consortium of inspiring and energizing partner institutions to provide support for the grant’s projects and for initiatives within the Queens College community. Together, the consortium seeks to investigate the below three strategies on our campuses and share resources in the process:
- Project 1: Evaluation of Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive, Justice, and Accessible (DEIJA) Teaching and Learning
- Project 2: Data-Informed Improvement of DEIJA Outcomes
- Project 3: Professional Development Programs for DEIJA Teaching and Learning.
These three projects provide our institutional framework for the HHMI guiding question:
What would it take to empower institutions to develop systems that investigate, support, evaluate, and reward teaching and learning that centers diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and access (DEIJA)?
Queens College is excited about this initiative, which reflects our core values. We celebrate the diversity of lived experiences among our students, staff, and faculty. With support from HHMI, we are working to strengthen inclusive excellence at QC. We encourage you to use and share the resources on this website across the QC community.