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It Takes All Kinds of Gators What Does This Mean to
to Fill the Swamp You?

The first goal outlined in UF’s Strategic Plan is You can honor—and even better, embrace—the
“an exceptional academic environment that diversity that makes UF great by:
reflects the breadth of thought essential for
preeminence, achieved by a community of y Challenging biases within yourself and others
students, faculty, and staff who have diverse y Inspiring individuals to foster inclusion in
experiences and backgrounds.” their daily lives
We all need to do our part to contribute to y Engaging others in spirited dialogue about
an inclusive learning and work environment, differing opinions, perspectives, and values
as well as to embrace and celebrate the
tremendous diversity of the people who make y Respecting our community as a marketplace
up our amazing UF community. Our strategic of free ideas
objectives include having students, faculty, and y Maintaining a safe environment for civil and
staff with increasingly diverse demographic respectful communication
and geographic characteristics, and fostering a
university climate that is inclusive, supportive, y Reporting unacceptable conduct, such
and respectful to all. as sexual misconduct and harassment,
discrimination against members of a
An inclusive definition of diversity recognizes protected class, and retaliation against
the variety of personal and social experiences people who were trying to stop such
that make individuals and communities different behavior
from one another. These differences make us
stronger, richer, and so much more interesting. UF is committed to both leading and serving our
UF embraces and values a rich community global community. Each of us can support these
comprised of all types of people. We do not commitments by setting high standards for
tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, ourselves and our colleagues. We hope you say,
creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual “Challenge accepted!”
orientation, gender identity and expression,
marital status, national
origin, political opinion
or affiliation, genetic Florida Museum of Natural History
information, or
veteran status. Each
of us has a shared
responsibility to
demonstrate integrity,
respect, compassion,
and fairness in how
we contribute to (and
represent) the UF
community.

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