Announcements
DoBS celebrates International Women’s Day 2024
March 8 is International Women's Day! Check out this EID Committee-created PowerPoint campaign about celebrating women in history, and the women amongst us.
March 8, 2024Business Services Monthly Minute – March 2024
Spring is right around the corner! And so is the spring FAN Mail drawing on April 12. You can recognize your amazing coworkers by submitting FAN Mail; entries received by 9 a.m. on April 12 will be included in the drawing.
March 1, 2024Learn about the 2024 Lunar New Year
This is a holiday rich in fascinating folklore and traditions, celebrated by more than 1.5 billion people around the world.
February 16, 2024- More EID posts
What is EID?
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Engagement
Engagement is the feeling of being fully involved in and enthusiastic about work. Engaged employees have a heightened connection to their work, the organization and its mission and their co-workers. Engaged employees find personal meaning in their work and are more likely to go above the minimum and expend “discretionary effort.”
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Inclusion
Inclusion refers to a sense of belonging; feeling respected, valued, and seen for who you are and valued as a contributing member of the team, workgroup, or organization. An inclusive culture is one in which barriers to contribution and negative biases are eliminated, and people are respected and able to give their personal best.
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Diversity
Diversity is the range of human qualities that impact and influence how people are perceived and how they behave. These qualities include but are not limited to age, gender, race, ethnicity, color, physical and mental attributes, sexual orientation, marital status, geography, location, spirituality, education, and values and beliefs.
FAN Mail program
The FAN Mail program is an employee recognition program for Business Services employees. The program launched in September 2019 and is a direct result of employee feedback during the 2018 VCFA EID survey.
Business Services Community Committee
The Business Services Community Committee (BSCC) is the EID Committee’s sister group. BSCC hosts community-building events and activities.
Committee charter and historical documents
EID Action Plan final report
Final report for the 2020 EID Action Plan, submitted by the DoBS EID Committee:
View the DoBS 2020 EID Action Plan Final Summary Report
The 2020 EID Survey Action Plan and a quarterly progress update document can be found in the “EID action plans and reports” section under the year 2020.
EID Committee work journal
Check out the log of work being done by your EID Committee members:
EID action plans and reports
Want to know what progress we’ve made? Review divisional EID plans and reports (e.g. survey results). The EID survey is conducted in even numbered years. Action plans cover two years.
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2022
- Survey results from the Spring 2022 Campus-Wide Climate Survey; an action plan has not yet been developed.
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2018
2017
2016
2016 EID Survey Results (Excel)
2015
EID plan
EID team
2014
EID survey results and plan
EID events
Business Services EID Events
Campus Events
- March
- March 19Ubuntu as Concept and Practice: From Abstraction to Application, and BackWorkshop by Upenyu S. Majee8:30 AM, TITU, Memorial Union
- March 19
- March 19
Additional Resources
Engagement, Inclusion and Diversity Initiative
The EID initiative addresses our goal to recruit and retain the best and most diverse faculty and staff. It helps us create a work community in which every employee feels welcomed, valued, included, and heard.
Gender and Sexuality Campus Center
The Gender and Sexuality Campus Center provides education, outreach, advocacy, and resources for UW–Madison student communities and their allies to improve campus climate and their daily intersectional experiences.
Forward Together
Learn more about the current Diversity Framework on campus.
Diversity Resources
The DoBS EID team put together a collection of books, blogs, podcasts, articles, and more that explore diversity-related topics.
Creating Community
Learn more about how UW–Madison is promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Institutional statement on diversity
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW–Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background — people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.