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Below is an excerpt from the Common Ground
Working Recommendations Report (September 2006). To view the complete report, please
visit http://www.smith.edu/oid/commonground/
Vision
As a central element of its commitment to excellence,
Smith College seeks to provide an environment that fosters the recruitment and success
of a diverse student, faculty, and staff community.
Diversity Principles
- Power and privilege influence access to
opportunities and resources, according to distinctions among people based on
race, age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, and
disability.
- Within any given community, people will
have multiple and complex social identities that both connect them to and differentiate
them from others.
- Valuing diversity requires not simply an
acknowledgement of differences, but a commitment to overcoming inequities and fostering
a hospitable and respectful community.
Diversity Goals
Diversity initiatives at the college have three goals:
- to enable all to recognize and learn about
the varied traditions, backgrounds, and capacities that members of the community
bring to the college, and to recognize that each member has something to teach
and something to learn;
- to foster critical thought about equality,
inequality, power, and privilege in society;
- and, finally, to reduce (as much as is possible)
inequalities in the college community that are based on such differences.
Please also see the Code of
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Table of Contents
Mission Statement
Chapter I
General Policies
Chapter II
Employment at Smith
Chapter III Salary/Compensation
Chapter IV Benefit Administration
Chapter V
Benefited Leaves
Chapter VI
General Information
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