Our Campus Culture
Our patients, students, staff, faculty and members of our community need to know and feel that they belong at UNMC College of Dentistry. The college is committed to serving everyone with cultural humility and fostering a humanistic environment and inclusive culture for all. We embrace, support and affirm diversity while applying equity-based and inclusive practices. We respect and value the voices, ideas and contributions of all within our community.
The college uses the definition of belonging from the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Faculty Diversity Toolkit:
Belonging: The extent to which a person feels connected to or a part of the campus community and includes one’s subjective evaluation of the quality of connections with others on campus or in the community. A sense of belonging contains both cognitive and affective aspects of the individual’s cognitive assessment of their role in relationship to the group. Factors that may impact belongingness for historically underrepresented and marginalized groups include: interactions with diverse peers, campus engagement in activities, the view of the overall climate and exposure to bias, and harassing or discriminatory treatment.
The College of Dentistry supports and adheres to the UNMC Non-Discrimination and Harassment Policy.
We support the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Policy on Diversity and Inclusion.