Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.54
Liaison Tavey Capps
Submission Date Oct. 18, 2013
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Duke University
PAE-T2-2: Employee Training Opportunities

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Tavey Capps
Environmental Sustainability Director
Office of the Executive Vice President
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Does the institution make cultural competence trainings and activities available to all employees?:
Yes

A brief description of the cultural competence trainings and activities:

Duke has a long-standing commitment to increasing the diversity in all parts of the university community – faculty, staff and student body. Among the goals of its ongoing efforts:
* Increase minority student enrollment and recruit and retain diverse faculty and staff.
* Provide minority students, faculty and staff with the necessary support to succeed.
* Promote an academic and social environment where diversity can flourish.

The Diversity & Equity Program offers consultation and training designed to assist staff in deepening diversity awareness, enhancing skill development, and providing information related to a broad range of diversity topics, cross-cultural understanding, and institutional equity.

Services:
* Explore how diversity and inclusion can be integrated into existing performance tools such as the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma and Pay & Performance.
* Integrate diversity measures into performance review and goal setting practices.
* Design, facilitate and counsel an employee work group to support diversity awareness and education within the department.
* Facilitate workshops, retreats, and discussions related to diversity and inclusion.
* Identity and award Duke employees and teams who demonstrate leadership in the area of diversity & inclusion with a Semiannual EDI Award. (Equity, Diversity & Inclusion).


The website URL where information about the trainings and activities are available:
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