Diversity and inclusion in the work environment
Goal 3: Employees with different cultures, ethnicities, disabilities, gender and sexual diversity feel that they are important people who belong to the community and have opportunities to participate and influence their own unit and the university's development.
Measures to support goal attainment in the working environments
Increase visibility
- UiA will ensure that diversity is adequately safeguarded in its internal and external communication. All communications managers must be trained in inclusive communication.
Responsibility: Divison of Communication - UiA shall strive for representation from our diversity of employees and shall have a balanced distribution between women and men in the election of candidates for boards, councils and committees at UiA.
Responsibility: Leadership - UiA is challenged to highlight academic issues and artistic designs that challenge, create debate and question our surroundings and our own organization in light of the priority areas.
Responsibility: Academic environments/administration - International Women's Day and Men's Day, Sami National Day, International Day of Persons with Disabilities and World Mental Health Day will be highlighted. UiA will be visible with symbols such as rainbow pennants and rainbow banners and participate in the annual PRIDE celebration.
Responsiblity: Academic environments/Division of Human Resources
Recruit and retain
- Managers at UiA will undergo competence enhancement on diversity recruitment and diversity management.
Responsiblity: Division of Human Resources
Develop
- UiA will offer activities/courses in cultural understanding to current and new employees. The focus should be on working in a multicultural environment.
Responsiblity: Division of Human Resources
Diversity and inclusion and the learning environment
Goal 4: Students at UiA, regardless of culture, ethnicity, functional ability, gender and sexual diversity, have good and equal academic development opportunities in their studies. There is a culture of systematic and good reception of new students at UiA.
Measures to support goal attainment in the learning environments
Research and learning environment
- International degree students must be offered Norwegian courses.
Responsibility: Division of Academic Affairs - UiA will take responsibility for the reception of international students so that everyone becomes an integrated part of the student community.
Responsibility: Division of Academic Affairs - UiA will create academic and social events that are inclusive. This is especially important at the start of the semester.
Responsibility: Division of Academic Affairs/Division of Communication - UiA will safeguard diversity in the representation of perspectives among invited speakers at major events.
Responsibility: Academic environments
Teaching
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A resource package will be created and used for diversity-sensitive and inclusive teaching.
Responisbility: Division of Academic Affairs/DeanSee also Action Plan for Universal Design and Inclusive Learning
The responsibility for ensuring follow-up of measures in the plan is specified for each measure, but all units at UiA have a shared responsibility.