UW-L will be featured in the INSIGHT magazine along with
55 other recipients of the 2013 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award
for diversity and inclusion.
Barbara Stewart, UW-L associate dean for Campus Climate
and Diversity, says "we are very grateful for the tremendous support we
receive from the campus community. Winning this award is a powerful indicator
of how far we have come with regard to diversity and inclusion. But also it
should motivate us as a campus community to strive to make even greater
progress in the future."
UW-L focuses on the many diverse groups by embracing a broad definition of diversity on campus,
including gender, age, race, ethnicity, Veterans, first generation, people with
disabilities and members of the LGBTQIA community.
UW-L has TRIO programs which focus on supporting
low-income students, the first in the family to attend college and people with
disabilities. UW-L also is always open
to recruiting and retaining the diversity.
One example is that the university invites multicultural students
annually to visit from Rufus King Middle School from the Milwaukee area.
Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity
magazine, says "We hope the HEED award serves as a way to honor those
institutions of higher education that recognize the importance of diversity and
inclusion as part of their everyday campus culture."
