| Overall Rating | Reporter |
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| Overall Score | |
| Liaison | Tatiana Molina Velásquez |
| Submission Date | March 4, 2022 |
Universidad CES
PA-5: Diversity and Equity Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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Reporter |
Tatiana
Molina Jefe sostenibilidad Sostenibilidad |
Does the institution have a diversity and equity committee, office, and/or officer tasked by the administration or governing body to advise on and implement policies, programs, and trainings related to diversity, equity, inclusion and human rights?:
Does the committee, office and/or officer focus on students, employees, or both?:
A brief description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer, including purview and activities:
What is the Inclusion Committee?
It is the competent institutional instance to direct strategies and execute pertinent actions in favor of inclusive education. supported by an interdisciplinary team, which guides the mechanisms of attention to diversity, promotes the inclusive institutional offer and with a differential approach that favors accessibility, permanence and the improvement of well-being conditions for the entire university community.
What is an Inclusion Committee for?
This committee works to ensure and develop inclusive education processes at CES University, through the incorporation of guidelines and investment of resources that seek to serve the diversity of people from different cultural, social, economic, political, linguistic streams. , physical and geographical; thus guaranteeing the improvement of their welfare conditions and facilitating their permanence within the institution.
How many people in the educational community benefit from this committee?
The actions are aimed at the entire university community in attention to its diversity.
Lines of work and activities: Accessibility, sexual diversity, interculturality
Committee composition
Rector - Principal
Administrative and Financial Management
Academic direction
Dean (a) Physiotherapy Faculty
Head of the Biomedical Engineering program
Dean (a) Faculty of Psychology
Head of Institutional Welfare
Head of Sustainability
student representative
Estimated proportion of students that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Estimated proportion of academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Estimated proportion of non-academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
A brief description of the institution’s cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Diversity, interculturality and inclusion: https://www.ces.edu.co/es/bienestar-institucional-y-desarrollo-humano/diversidad-interculturalidad-e-inclusion/
We want to promote the inclusion, respect and adaptation of students with various special needs, thus supporting comprehensive institutional training.
inclusion table: Space for the generation of alliances and agreements with educational institutions and public and private entities to share and apply experiences related to inclusion.
Accessible University Guide
Installing JAWS on the university's public computers
At Virtual CES we have an ACCESSIBILITY button that helps people with visual difficulties by allowing us to increase the size of the font and change the level of contrast, based on different colors of backgrounds and texts.
Responsible use of accessible parking cells
Access to the library for people with disabilities
Training for the creation of accessible academic content
Disability awareness day
Colombian sign language course for students, administrators and teachers
Admission of a hearing-impaired student in the Physiotherapy program
Support with interpreters for those who need it as accessibility in the classroom
Strategies to promote the entry and permanence of students with disabilities
Diagnosis in accessibility for the town and CVZ headquarters
Annual seminar on sexual diversity, articulation with the Faculty of Psychology, Medicine and Law
Articulation with tables and organizations that work around Sexual Diversity in the municipality
Website URL where information about the institution’s diversity and equity office or trainings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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