{"294181":{"#nid":"294181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Accepting 2014 Diversity Champion Awards Nominees","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChampion Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiversity is a community value at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026nbsp;Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our academic mission.\u0026nbsp; Georgia Tech aspires to be an Institute that pursues excellence and embraces and leverages diversity in all of its forms.\u0026nbsp; The Georgia Tech community benefits from our increasingly diverse environment.\u0026nbsp; We strive to recruit, develop, retain, and engage a heterogeneous cadre of students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and talents, creating a campus community that exemplifies the best in all of us \u2013 in our intellectual pursuits, our diversity of thought, our personal integrity, and our inclusive excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology Diversity Champion Awards recognizes students, staff, faculty, and units who have actively demonstrated and positively promoted the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Georgia Tech campus community.\u0026nbsp; Each year, one member of the faculty, staff and student body, and a unit (e.g., office, department, school, lab) will be selected and recognized at the Georgia Tech Annual Diversity Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECriteria\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecipients will have shown a high regard for diversity by demonstrating one or more of the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EA commitment to excellence, diversity, equity, and inclusion.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELeadership in building a culture of inclusion and equity.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBehavior that illustrates commitment to the inclusion of persons within the institution who represent the diversity of the Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOrganized, conducted, and\/or supported events and activities that promote cross-cultural understanding, respect, and inclusion of diverse individuals and groups.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEligibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll full-time staff, faculty, students, and units are eligible for this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENomination Process\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENominations, including previous nominees and self-nominations, may be made by all full-time Georgia Tech staff, faculty, or students for any award category.\u0026nbsp; Nomination forms may be accessed electronically at the Office of Institute Diversity website.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENomination Form: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.diversity.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-diversity-champion-awards-nomination-form\u0022\u003ENomination Form\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENominations will be accepted until July 16, 2014\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENominators should inform nominees that their names have been put forward for consideration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPresentation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe awards will be presented at the Georgia Tech Diversity Symposium Awards Luncheon scheduled for September 5, 2014 at the Georgia Tech Hotel Ballroom.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology Diversity Champion Awards recognizes students, staff, faculty, and units who have actively demonstrated and positively promoted the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Georgia Tech campus community.\u0026nbsp; Each year, one member of the faculty, staff and student body, and a unit (e.g., office, department, school, lab) will be selected and recognized at the Georgia Tech Annual Diversity Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Diversity is a community value at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  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