Requesting Nominations for the Champion in Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Award: An Award of Excellence

Vice Dean Eve Higginbotham is pleased to announce the fourth year of the Champion in Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Award: An Award of Excellence and request nomination. The award is open to business units, departments, divisions, or institutional groups or organizations throughout Penn Medicine. T This award is not intended for individuals. Nominations are due by November 24, 2023

Nominated entities should meet the following criteria, documenting progress over the past three years or less:

• Has broadly demonstrated deep levels of commitment to inclusion, diversity and equity in ways that are grounded in principles of collaboration and shared leadership
• Uses formal assessment processes and data to co-develop programs and interventions that are responsive to the needs of inclusion, diversity and equity
• Evaluates the processes, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of programs and initiatives in ways that are meaningful to a variety of internal and external institutional stakeholders
• Incentivizes inclusion, diversity and equity activities and scholarship among faculty, trainees, and students as evidenced by leadership commitment and institutional policies

Nominations must include a letter of nomination, including data and narratives supporting the candidacy of the unit, of no more than 1500 words, as well as at least 2 letters of support. The successful application will be announced at the Office of Inclusion and Diversity’s Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium in January