University of Missouri
PAE-6: Diversity and Equity Coordination

Mission Statement: To integrate diversity and inclusion throughout the University. • Through leadership, expertise, and resources to the MU community to further MU’s strategic goals. • Through collaborate partnerships to build infrastructure and capacity for students, faculty and staff to work and learn in an inclusive and welcoming environment. • Through understanding that diversity is inclusive of a community of people of differing genders, racial-ethnic backgrounds, languages, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, disabilities, national and geographical origins, socio-economic class, veterans’ status, and political views; and diversity is reflected in the campus climate, curriculum, intellectual discourse, leadership, scholarly products, and recruitment and retention efforts. Vision Statement: The University of Missouri will become a more inclusive, creative and innovative research and learning environment that facilitates the competent functioning of students and employees in a diverse and competitive global society. The Diversity Committee hosts many different diversity related events, programs, and projects. They also provide funding through scholarships, grants, and fellowships. Programs & Projects: Difficult Dialogues The MU Difficult Dialogues program is designed to stimulate rigorous intellectual inquiry, and to empower students to express opposing views respectfully and in the spirit of open-mindedness. MU Equity The MU Equity Office provides campus-wide leadership, coordination, and assistance on matters of equity and compliance. Diversity in Action: Bridging Research and Practice "Diversity in Action: Bridging Research and Practice," is a Brown Bag Series sponsored by the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative. This series of research-based presentations is designed to inform scholars, students, and practitioners of diversity-related research at Mizzou. You in Mizzou YOU IN MIZZOU is designed to give you the opportunity to learn about a variety of issues that pertain to Mizzou faculty, staff and students. MU Campus Climate Study The MU Campus Climate Study was a rigorous and comprehensive self-evaluation that provided new information about how majority and minority group members perceived the current climate for diversity at MU for six groups: women, people of color, people with disabilities, LGBT individuals, and non-Christian religious minorities, and non-native English speakers. MizzouDiversity Summit The MizzouDiversity Summit is a bi-annual opportunity for campus faculty, staff and students to gather for meaningful discourse, listen to nationally recognized speakers, and participate in sessions designed to address specific areas of campus diversity. Cultural Competency and Leadership Are we as leaders of a prominent public, land-grant and comprehensive research university able to take up the challenge posed by Dr. Duderstadt to be an active participant in paving the way for a more engaged and inclusive multicultural institution? Workshops in this series will explore: Understanding culture as dimensions of values; Reconciling values that are in tension with each other using dilemma theory; Understanding that “wealth” is created through reconciling value differences; and Building cultural intelligence. Custom Training and Workshops Our office provides education and assistance on institutional matters of equity and compliance, leadership and development through the offering of training and workshops. Our professional staff is also available to all divisions on campus to assess, advise, guide and coach the change process in developing a multicultural, inclusive and global organization. We can provide problem-specific interventions to a comprehensive strategically-driven overhaul.

Noor Azizan-Gardner Assistant Deputy Chancellor for Diversity/ Chief Diversity Officer Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573.882.6282 Fax: 573.884.4103 Azizan-GardnerN@missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union Nadege Uwase Executive Staff Assistant Phone: 573.882.8532 Fax: 573.884.4103 UwaseNa@missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union Rebecca Calvin Marketing Specialist Phone: 573.884.0640 Fax: 573.884.4103 CalvinR@missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union Noel Ann English Director of MU Equity Phone: 573.882.9069 Fax: 573.884.4103 EnglishNo@missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union Lee Henson Director of Accessibility and ADA Education Phone: 573.884.7278 Fax: 573.882.1809 HensonL@missouri.edu 465 McReynolds Hall Niki Stanley Multi-media Specialist Phone: 573.882.8532 Fax: 573.884.4103 stanleys@missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union Yuan Gao Graduate Research Assistant Phone: 573.882.2714 Fax: 573.884.4103 ygbvc@mail.missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union Charlie Parker Coordinator of Diversity Programs Phone: 573.882.2714 Fax: 573.884.4103 cjp26b@mail.missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union Marlo Goldstein Hode Coordinator of Programming and Professional Development Phone: 573.882.2714 Fax: 573.884.4103 mbgnb9@mail.missouri.edu S303 Memorial Union

The Chancellor's Diversity Initiative office is located in Memorial Union, on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Metered parking is available at the University Avenue Garage or Hitt Street Garage.

Roger L. Worthington, Ph.D. served as the Assistant Deputy Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Missouri from 2006-2011. Noor Azizan-Gardner was appointed by Deputy Chancellor Mike Middleton as Chief Diversity Officer for the University of Missouri in the fall of 2012 after serving as the interim Chief Diversity officer for a year. Ms. Azizan-Gardner has been working with intercultural issues in the United States and Europe for the last 18 years. She is a much sought-after speaker in her specialty area of intercultural competency and leadership. Over the years, her assignments have included presenting innumerable intercultural competency lectures and workshops and consulting on diversity and intercultural competency for the private and public sectors, the police and armed forces. In the Columbia community, Ms. Azizan-Gardner has served as a member of the board of advisors for Prism, a support group for LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) youths, and a member of the Diversity Study Circle Project's steering committee sponsored by the Human Rights Commission and the City of Columbia. She has chaired the Multicultural Committee at Smithton Middle School and was also a member of the Diversity Committee of the MU Alumni Association. Her community service also included serving as the past vice-president of the non-profit organization, Columbia Friends of China, which spearheaded the sister-city project between Columbia and Laoshan, China and as a founding member of the executive board of the Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition. She is currently a member of a community committee working with the Columbia Police Department to tackle racial profiling issues in traffic stops and searches. Ms. Azizan-Gardner holds a Bachelor's degree and an MBA from MU with a concentration in international management. She has participated in continuous professional education at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication and the National Multicultural Institute.