DEI Minute

Faculty and students: If you haven’t already, we’d greatly appreciate you filling out this survey on inclusive excellence in the CEAE/EVEN departments. This is an anonymous survey. You are welcome to answer as many questions as you feel comfortable

As a response to the CU Boulder Campus Culture survey results, the CEAE JEDI Committee is developing guidance for our department to help us practice inclusive excellence in the classroom and department overall. We ask that students and faculty

Some words carry baggage. Although commonly used and well-intentioned, specific terms can have a historical context with negative connotations for different communities. Engineers are often encouraged to work with stakeholders to design and

Every year, a diverse committee of CU faculty, staff, and students select the Buffs One Read book, a campaign that aims to build community through the experience of the entire campus reading one book. This year’s One Read is Braiding Sweetgrass:

Dear Members of the CEAE Community,Welcome back for the Fall 2022 semester! The CEAE Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee is excited to re-introduce our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) minute. The DEI minute is meant to

This will be our last DEI minute until the Fall 2022 semester!The summer is here! Which means it is time to venture out, relax, and enjoy some time off. Whatever your plan is for a fun summer, we would like to offer some book suggestions about

“Put your head down, work hard, and tune out the noise”. This was a motto shared by Michael Garner that he uses when things get tough. Garner was the keynote speaker at the inaugural Colorado Construction Diversity Summit,  where he

Language matters for inclusion. Did you know that the language we use shapes the way we view the world? Consider a study performed by Lera Boroditsky et al. in which German and Spanish speakers were asked to describe objects having different gender

Dear Members of the CEAE Community,The CEAE Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) committee is initiating the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Minute this semester.  Much like a ‘Safety Minute’ you might have on a job site, the