Diversity
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is one of the nation’s most diverse public research universities. As a federally designated Minority Serving Institution, we are a living, learning, and working community that embraces our diversity. Our aim is to ensure that neither difference nor disadvantage impede the intellectual and professional achievement of our campus community. Every day we welcome students, staff, and faculty from a variety of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities to achieve this aim. At UIC, diversity is not an end in itself, but a vehicle for advancing access, equity, and inclusion.
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The College of Dentistry utilizes the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) definition to define Diversity. “Diversity: Recognizes that each individual is unique with multiple dimensions of diversity that intersect, whether seen or unseen, and that society and community life benefit from the engagement of these differences regardless of culture, values, beliefs, race, ethnicity, language, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, military/veteran status, disabilities, religion, economic status, geography or other characteristics or ideologies.” This definition of diversity reflects our firm commitment to equity, inclusion and belonging, by encompassing groups that have been historically underrepresented, excluded, marginalized, or otherwise discriminated against in dental education and healthcare.
