Inclusive Excellence

The College strives to build a diverse community of learners with the drive to serve and lead in their communities, the nation, and the world.

In unison with College’s Inclusive Excellence Plan,  IE courses will enhance intentional and critical thinking among students and enable them to make decisions based on research and evidence while retaining their commitment to fairness and compassion.

What is Inclusive Excellence coursework?

All UVA Wise students take a required broad-based liberal arts core designed to cultivate the qualities that define educated people. The following IE goals will be added in order to help develop students' understanding of what it means to live as citizens in a global culture.

  • Protentional IE components within the Liberal Arts Core.
  • IE Faculty Advocates that provide guidance and multidimensional perspectives on to the faculty they are assigned, around the development of creating or transforming their course to match the IE requirements.
  • Support and encourage the creation of general college courses that are interdisciplinary and interdepartmental.
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Preamble

Social Justice is a process, not an outcome, which (1) seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities, and responsibilities; (2) challenges the roots of oppression and injustice; (3) empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential; (4) and builds social solidarity and community capacity for collaborative action. (UC Berkeley Social Welfare)

Universal IE Syllabi Statement

UVA Wise strives to be excellent in all aspects of college life; therefore, a commitment to inclusive excellence is essential.  This commitment enacts the principles of social justice, defined as:

“... a process, not an outcome, which (1) seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities, and responsibilities; (2) challenges the roots of oppression and injustice; (3) empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential; (4) and builds social solidarity and community capacity for collaborative action.” (UC Berkeley Social Welfare)

Within our learning communities, we aspire to address inequality and  promote equity. We are mindful of what we teach and who we are teaching.

IE Courses Require:

  1. Include UVA Wise IE Syllabus Statement and the College’s IE definitions with the preamble.
  2. Course learning objectives that match the principles of UVA Wise IE.
  3. Course content emphasizes established IE materials, assignments, and/or topics
  4. Course evaluation question related to your IE objectives

Faculty will be prepared for teaching with IE pre-semester Orientation and faculty Mentorship

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