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.