Every year, individuals are recognized for their ongoing commitment and efforts toward promoting and increasing diversity at UCSF through the Champions of Diversity program.
Those who are selected for recognition as a champion of diversity are honored with a pin that they can proudly wear and are invited to celebrate UCSF’s efforts to create a more diverse campus community at a luncheon. Beginning this year, newly recognized diversity champions will be listed in this section of the diversity website. Read about this year's champions.
Michael Adams
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To date, more than 800 individuals at UCSF have been recognized as Champions of Diversity, according to Michael Adams, director of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity (AAEOD), which created and administers the program.
“Championing diversity has to become more of a movement to recognize folks who pay attention and those who put the oar in the water to pull the boat along without necessarily being the captain,” says Adams. “These are people who intentionally demonstrate mutual respect, inclusion, understanding and purposeful appreciation of others. This program helps to build community and recognizes the day-to-day efforts to promote diversity that might otherwise go unnoticed.”
Among the criteria for assessing the efforts of nominees are:
Nominations should be sent in writing via email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or campus mail to the Office of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity & Diversity, 3333 California St., Suite 101, San Francisco, CA 94143-0988.
To view the entire honor roll of champions of diversity, visit http://aaeod.ucsf.edu/aaeod/2439-DSY/2635-DSY.html
The 2008 Champions of Diversity for the months of January through June are: