Our collective responsibility
As UT Austin strives to meet our mission of unlocking potential and preparing future leaders of the state, we embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
Faculty Initiatives
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to the advancement of the university's academic mission. Through strategic projects, working groups and initiatives, our goal is to ensure everyone on campus is represented and has a clear path to success.
Faculty Diversity
Strategic Plan for Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity
The Strategic Plan for Faculty DEI specifies objectives, policies, prioritized actions, and timetables to be undertaken over the next four years to meet our institution’s strategic goals with regard to equity and inclusivity.
Provost’s Early Career Cohort Fellowship Awards
The ultimate goal of this program is to increase the number of faculty who will further UT’s critical goals of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness by attracting and hiring candidates with outstanding scholarly records.
Faculty Initiatives
Short overview of programs underway to promote an equitable environment for our faculty.
Faculty
In 2019, UT joined 19 peer institutions to develop and strengthen inclusive recruitment, hiring and retention practices for faculty members in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Faculty
Currently a group of 13 individuals who oversee and advise their deans on matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion for faculty, staff, and students, and lead initiatives for their colleges/schools.
Faculty
In 2018, the Provost’s Office began offering workshops to raise awareness around implicit bias and provide faculty hiring committees with best practices.
Faculty
The PIPES program was created to better support departments and units in the recruitment process as they work to diversify their units.
Faculty
The goals of the IDEA committee are to consolidate the Councils’ institutional data requests and to refine and contribute to related analyses.
Faculty
NCFDD is a nationally-recognized independent organization dedicated to supporting faculty, particularly under-represented faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in making successful transitions throughout their careers.
Faculty Equity Councils
Diversity & Community
Council for LGBTQ+ Access, Equity, and Inclusion
Born from a working group in 2018, the purpose of Q+AEI is to address issues of access, equity, and inclusion among faculty at UT Austin based on gender identity and/or sexual orientation.
Diversity & Community
Council for Racial and Ethnic Equity & Diversity
CREED began work in the fall of 2015 to advise the provost on best practices in recruiting, retaining, and advancing faculty members who are racially, ethnically, gender, or in other ways diverse.
Diversity & Community
Disabled Faculty Equity Council
To address, improve, and advance accessibility and equity for disabled faculty on campus, disabled UT Austin faculty met in Spring 2021 to get organized and officially formed the Disabled Faculty Equity Council in Fall 2021.
Diversity & Community
University Faculty Gender Equity Council
Presents best practices for creating an equitable and inclusive environment. Conduct analysis of faculty salaries to identify gender pay inequities and address barriers to promotion and tenure.
Student Initiatives
Short overview of programs underway to promote an equitable and inclusive environment for all undergraduate and graduate students at the university.
Undergraduate
The First Abroad initiative provides funding and resources to support first generation college students in accessing transformative educational abroad experiences.
Undergraduate
The mission of this program is to identify and collaborate with colleges, schools, and units to remove the barriers to enrollment, persistence and timely graduation for UT Austin first-generation students.
Undergraduate
A new Presidential Steering Committee to implement the recommendations in the HSI Transition Plan and to assure that our work in this area continues to advance.
Undergraduate
The Texas Advance Commitment is UT Austin’s commitment to making a UT education more affordable for Texas students with assured financial aid assistance for middle- and low-income students.