{"id":61663,"date":"2018-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/10\/viewing-diversity-through-an-inclusive-lens\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:17:55","slug":"viewing-diversity-through-an-inclusive-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/10\/viewing-diversity-through-an-inclusive-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing diversity through an inclusive lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

To achieve success, diversity must be deliberately embedded into the policies, practices and programs of an organization.<\/p>\n

That was the message from Joan Reede, M.D., one of five speakers at UNMC’s April 4 Breakthrough Thinking Conference.<\/p>\n

The annual conference, organized by the UNMC Chancellor’s Office, is designed to challenge and inspire attendees to creatively solve problems and, as Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D. said, “think big thoughts.” <\/p>\n

Watch video on the Breakthrough Thinking Conference<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

As dean for diversity and communication partnerships at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Reede provides leadership, guidance and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty. “Unless we embed the importance of diversity in our thinking, we will not achieve diversity inclusion,” she said. <\/p>\n

To make her point, Dr. Reede showed images that appear after Googling such terms as ‘smart people’ and ‘professor.’ Caucasian faces dominated each of her slides. <\/p>\n

“We need to think differently from the start,” she said. “We need to think through a diversity inclusion lens.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Reede encouraged attendees to:<\/p>\n