The College of Design is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds. Through our community initiatives and institutional planning, the College of Design intentionally creates opportunities that increase access and enhance the student experience.

Equity and Inclusion Committee

The College of Design Equity and Inclusion Committee helps lead equity and inclusion strategies across the college. Recent initiatives have focused on inclusive teaching such as: (1) strategies to improve accessibility of materials, (2) onboarding programs to help Pro-Tem and Career faculty work with students from diverse backgrounds, and (3) collecting a wider range of examples, readings, prototypes, and precedents for faculty to use if they want to update their courses.

Equity and Inclusion Committee

Featured Diversity Initiatives

Design for Spatial Justice Initiative

The School of Architecture & Environment's Design for Spatial Justice Initiative brings in a cohort of emerging and distinguished design scholars who engage communities within and outside of the university in their scholarship at the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, sexuality, and economic inequality.

Deans’ Equity and Inclusion Initiative

The University of Oregon College of Design and eight other leading U.S. colleges and schools of architecture, planning, and design have co-founded the Deans' Equity and Inclusion Initiative to work together to nurture a diverse population of emerging scholars focused on teaching and researching the built environment to advance socio-ecological and spatial justice, equity and inclusion. There are now 29 members institutions who support a fellowship program, summer institute, and other efforts.