{"id":24,"date":"2022-07-18T15:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T19:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:13:52","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Mission<\/h2>\n<p>To sponsor, facilitate, and communicate initiatives focused on the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the culture, practices, and policies of External Affairs.<\/p>\n<h2>Statement on Furthering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We will foster a culture of belonging and promote opportunities for meaningful connections with others. We will listen to understand and encourage an open flow of communication and information within our workplace. We will be transparent in our decision-making and actions. We will embrace and celebrate diversity and be respectful of everyone. We will be aware of our actions and their impact. We will honor multiple perspectives. We will provide a safe space to give feedback without fear of retribution or retaliation. We will build a community that continuously improves and grows through advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Focus<\/h2>\n<p>The 2024\u20132025 Steering Committee is currently focusing on community building and navigating multiple changes in leadership at a department and University level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2023\u20132024 Steering Committee focused on addressing exclusionary conduct data from the Belonging &amp; Culture Survey and building better community bonds. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/2025\/07\/03\/2023-2024-dei-steering-committee-year-end-report\/\">2023\u20132024 Year-End Report<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To continue the momentum built up from the previous year, the 2022\u20132023 Steering Committee kept their focus on hiring, retention, and workplace culture. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/2024\/01\/11\/2022-2023-dei-steering-committee-year-end-report\/\">2022\u20132023 Year-End Report<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Learn more about the work the 2021\u20132022 Steering Committee started and completed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/2023\/08\/16\/2021-2022-eadei-year-end-report\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2021\u20132022 Year-End Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mission To sponsor, facilitate, and communicate initiatives focused on the advancement of diversity, equity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10779,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/external-affairs-dei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}