(soft music)
-: Let me begin by recognizing our tribal elders.
If I misspeak, I beg their forgiveness.
Thank you to the University of Nebraska for having me today.
UNL is a land-grant institution.
This designation was created by Congress in 1862
with the Morrill Act during the Civil War.
The Act's purpose was to create state colleges
to promote the liberal and practical education
of the industrial classes,
and the several pursuits and professions in life.
The Morrill Act provided each state
with 30,000 acres per member of Congress for this purpose,
in addition to the U.S. government's
prior 162 violent expropriations
of around 10.7 million acres of sovereign tribal lands.
These bloody events birthed
the modern higher education system.
As we consider this history,
it becomes clear that we must cherish the gift of education
all the more.
We want to acknowledge
that the University of Nebraska
rests on the traditional lands of the Ponca,
the Umonhon, the Ho-Chunk Winnebago, Dakota, Lakota,
Santee Dakota,
Kaw, Arapaho, Ioway,
Sac and Fox, Cheyenne,
and Oto-Missouria peoples past and present.
We honor with gratitude the land itself,
and the people who have stewarded it
throughout the generations.
This calls us to commit to work in partnership
with our Indigenous peoples,
continuing to learn from their experience
to become better stewards of the land
we now inhabit as well.
Let us utilize the education provided by UNL
to bring peace and justice to all peoples.
Thank you for hearing my words.
Mitakuye Oyasin.
-: Good evening, everyone.
Oh, it's nothing like walking up to a stage,
it's so quiet in the room and all you hear are your shoes.
(audience laughing)
So welcome to the 2022
Nebraska Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Impact Awards.
I have to say that we are absolutely thrilled,
not only to have you all with us this afternoon,
or this evening,
but also to be in the presence of our recipients.
And, of course, as we're thinking about this work tonight,
we want you all to really reflect on the work
that's been blazed so much at UNL,
especially through our recipients,
but also through perhaps our own collective action
as we're thinking about this.
So, I am Nkenge Friday.
I'm the assistant vice chancellor for strategic initiatives
in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
And I am elated to welcome our honored awardees, and guests,
both in person, and, of course, via livestream
to our second annual ceremony honoring the recipients
of this year's Nebraska DEI Impact Awards.
The Nebraska DEI Impact Awards were established in 2021
by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion
to recognize individuals and groups
who actively advance diversity, equity and inclusion,
and transformative and sustainable ways
at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
These awards are themed within four categories.
Diversity Leadership Faculty Award,
Diversity Leadership Staff Award,
Promising Leader Award
with individual recipients for undergraduate,
and graduate or professional students,
and the Collective Impact Award.
Each year nominations open in mid-fall
for all categories of the awards.
Our selection process is based on nominations we receive,
which are open to all members of our community
as we actively seek nominations to speak towards work,
practice, service and teaching
aligning with the university's core values,
and principles of inclusive excellence.
This year we are pleased to recognize individuals,
and a team who based on nominating material
that crisscrossed our campus, our state, and our nation,
and expand across colleges and units.
We welcome you again to the 2022 Nebraska DEI Impact Awards,
and we really hope tonight's recipients, and their service
inspire and influence collective action
towards inclusive excellence.
We will now have the presentation
of the Collective Impact Award
via prerecorded message from Chancellor Green
on behalf of the Collective Impact Award,
and receiving this award immediately after
Chancellor Green's address will be Jackie Guzman,
Maria de Guzman, and Georgia Jones on behalf of
Nebraska Extension's Reaching One, Reaching All.
Thank you all again.
(audience applauding)
(upbeat music)
-: On behalf of the entire
University of Nebraska-Lincoln family,
it gives me great pleasure to announce the winner
of the 2022 Collective Impact Award.
This award recognizes outstanding contributions
to diversity, equity and inclusion
by units or organizations at UNL,
with a special focus on transformative and impactful work
through collective organizing and capacity building.
This year's winner of the collective impact award
is Nebraska Extension's Reaching One, Reaching All team.
Reaching One, Reaching All is an extension interest group
that for over 10 years has led efforts
within Nebraska Extension
to provide resources and training around complex issues
related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Their audiences have included campus,
and county-based extension faculty and staff,
UNL students and organizations across Nebraska
with frontline workers in the fields of education,
law enforcement and health care.
Reaching One, Reaching All provides research,
and professional development resources on topics including:
Bias, stereotypes and microaggressions,
refugees and immigrants, children and cultural competence,
gender stereotypes,
with the goals of the team to offer tools, programs,
and research expertise
to help inform cultural and global competence,
to empower individuals and institutions
with effective strategies
to promote diversity and inclusion,
to work with community partners
to support and empower diverse populations,
and to foster institutional, community level,
and systemic change to support inclusive,
and equitable environments.
The Reaching One, Reaching All team's work
reflects a commitment to inclusive excellence.
Please join me in congratulating
the Reaching One, Reaching All team recipient
of this year's Collective Impact Award
for our academic year.
(soft music)
-: So I got volunteered to do the acknowledgement.
So my name is Maria de Guzman, and I am accepting this award
on behalf of the Reaching One, Reaching All team.
And if you'll bear with me,
I'll read the names of the people who are on this team.
So we have Jackie Guzman and Georgia Jones,
as well as Holly Hatton-Bowers, John Porter, Ted Hibbeler,
Lisa Kaslon, Irvin Ramirez-Benavides, Linda Reddish,
Angi Heller, Leo Gonzalez, Michael Bergland-Riese,
Surin Kim, Jean Ann Fischer, and Hilary Maricle.
And also we wanted to acknowledge several people
who have also contributed significantly to this team
who have since left UNL because of retirement,
such as Cathy Johnston, who was one of our trainers,
who along with Jackie and myself,
crisscrossed the state actually
doing a lot of these trainings for some of those groups
that were mentioned earlier.
There's also Kathy Potthoff, who has also since retired,
and she was one of the early members
who helped create a lot of resources
that Reaching One, Reaching All has provided to the state.
And then, lastly, there was also Tonia Durden,
who has since moved to a different institution.
We also wanted to acknowledge our units
that we all are from.
So we are from Child, Youth and Family Studies,
Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design,
Nutrition and Health Sciences,
the State 4-H Office,
as well as various county and extension engagement zones
from across the state.
And, of course, we want to thank Extension,
Nebraska Extension, which as we all know,
is the front door of the university to the community.
And it's a venue through which we can
take knowledge generated within the university,
and take to the communities,
and where we can also service conduits
for the other way around for knowledge and experience
from the community
to inform our work here at the university.
So it's really just been a very humbling experience
to be part of this team
who each and every person on this team
has been dedicated to the work of DI,
whether or not it was officially part of their work.
So if you get to know the people on this team,
I'm always humbled to work with them.
People here are working in fields of horticulture,
or early childhood education, et cetera.
So for years, nobody here actually had a DI designation,
but was doing it on top of
what they were actually assigned to do.
So, again, every time I'm with this team,
I'm just extremely humbled
to be working with this excellent group of folks.
So thank you for the recognition today.
(audience applauding)
-: Good evening.
I am Dr. Judy Walker.
I'm Aaron Douglas professor of mathematics,
which I had to throw in there
because I've got my math crew over there,
and associate vice chancellor
for Faculty and Academic Affairs.
So on behalf of Faculty Affairs
in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
it gives me great pleasure to announce the winner
of the second annual Diversity Leadership Faculty Award.
The award is designed to highlight outstanding contributions
to diversity, equity and inclusion
by a member of the UNL faculty.
It represents the transformative and impactful work
by members of our innovative and dedicated community.
This year's winner of the Diversity Leadership Faculty Award
is Dr. Cynthia Willis-Esqueda,
associate professor in the Department of Psychology,
and the Institute for Ethnic Studies
in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Willis-Esqueda is a member
of both the social psychology and psychology law programs.
Her research interests are focused on the motivations for,
and cognitive processes around race and ethnic bias,
particularly against America's Indigenous populations,
Mexican Americans, and American Indians.
Her research focuses on race and ethnic bias,
and the impact on legal processes, legal outcomes,
and health and well-being.
Several of Dr. Willis-Esqueda's peers and colleagues
attest to her dedication to structural and institutional DEI
at UNL through numerous levels.
Her nominators noted her mentoring
of countless students of color in the research process,
and her continued advisement of UCARE and McNair students
with many of these students having conference presentations,
and publications as undergraduates,
and then matriculating onto postgraduate training.
In addition, Dr. Willis-Esqueda's nominators
noted her as an incredible role model
illustrating that Native American women
can be formidable scholars, professors,
and community leaders.
She embodies the strength and endurance of our resiliency
that are often shared across Indigenous cultures.
So that was a quote from one of the nominators.
So please join me in congratulating
Dr. Cynthia Willis-Esqueda
as the recipient of the Diversity Leadership Faculty Award
for the 2021-2022 academic year.
(audience applauding)
-: Good afternoon.
It's my great honor and privilege to accept one of UNL's
Nebraska Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Impact Awards,
the Faculty Diversity Leadership Award.
For me, this award signifies the continued commitment
to diversity and inclusion that is crucial
for understanding past events, current states,
and preparing for future experiences in all we do.
I believe diversity and inclusion
is the single biggest challenge we face in today's world.
And being able to address this challenge
with academic success in research, teaching and service
is critical for sound scholarship.
During all my years at UNL,
I have focused on issues involving race and ethnicity,
and research and teaching.
My service at the department, university,
and national levels
is also focused on race and ethnic diversity and inclusion.
Most importantly,
I was truly humbled to read in the notification letter
that in quotes,
campus leaders noted your approach of conducting research
with kindness and admiration for cultures and values
in the communities you work with
taking the time to listen to their concerns.
Additionally, community members noted that your dedication
to guiding first-generation students, students of color,
and Indigenous population students is unmatched.
Anyone who knows me knows that the scholarly success
of marginalized students is my foremost concern,
and a lifelong passion.
So on behalf of all of my students,
those who have moved on, those who still work with me,
and those yet to come, I accept this award.
I will continue to work for diversity, equity and inclusion.
And I thank you for this great recognition, thank you.
(audience applauding)
-: Good evening.
My name is Ranelle Maltas, and I am the training,
technology and communications coordinator
in the Office of Human Resources.
I'm also the president of the University Association
for Administrative Development, also known as UAAD.
On behalf of UAAD,
and in the absence of colleagues
within the University of Nebraska
Office Professionals Association, or UNOPA,
it gives me great pleasure to announce the winner
of the second annual Diversity Leadership Staff Award.
This award designed to highlight the outstanding
contribution to diversity, equity and inclusion
by a member of the UNL staff represents the transformative,
and impactful work by members of our dedicated,
and innovative staff.
This year's winner of the Diversity Leadership Staff Award
is Dr. Colette Yellow Robe,
a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
Dr. Yellow Robe serves as an academic retention specialist
with the TRIO program,
Native American studies affiliate professor
in the Institute for Ethnic Studies,
and the Journey for Anti-Racism and Racial Equity co-chair.
As part of her work through the TRIO programs,
Dr. Yellow Robe serves students with academic,
and career retention needs.
She is an instructor of the ALEC 102
service-learning course.
She's worked with the Nebraska Department of Education
as a Native American education consultant
evaluating the four Native American
reservation public schools in Nebraska.
Dr. Yellow Rope has provided academic enrichment,
and workforce development services
for local Native American students
through the Indian Center,
a nonprofit center for urban Native Americans.
Among other activities,
she has served on several community and campus groups,
including the Chancellor's Commission
on the Status of People of Color,
the Lincoln Public Schools'
Diversity Communications Council,
and is chairwoman of the Lincoln Mayor's
Multicultural Advisory Committee.
Several of Dr. Yellow Robe's students, peers,
and colleagues attest to her dedication
to diversity, equity and inclusion at Nebraska.
One noted: As one of very few indigenous employees at UNL,
Dr. Yellow Robe is a beacon for native students,
and other black and brown students.
She is someone the students can see
indicating that the possibility
for their own professional success,
and she supports them in culturally validating ways
because she relates to them and their experiences at UNL.
Dr. Yellow Robe serves as an inclusive leader
through her support and impact on student development
as a mentor and role model,
campus leadership and service, community engagement,
and her support for historically underrepresented,
and underserved populations.
Dr. Yellow Robe reflects an extraordinary commitment
to teaching and diversity, equity and inclusion mentorship,
all illustrating her transformational influence at UNL.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Colette Yellow Robe
as the Diversity Leadership Staff Award recipient
for the 2021-2022 academic year.
(audience applauding)
Congratulations.
-: Thank you, thank you, okay.
Hello everyone.
Thank you for that really beautiful write-up.
I appreciate that.
And I think we should give Ms. Maltas a hand, too.
I'm very sensitive to how wonderful,
and hard our staff work on campus.
So if we could acknowledge her real quick, please.
(audience applauding)
Okay, let me, I've hit that age.
I'm sorry, but we have to do this now.
Okay, so I wanted to start, I wanted to let you know,
my name is Vonȧhe'e, that means ceremonial woman.
I acknowledge that because it's very important
that I maintain,
first of all, my language and my culture wherever I go,
and I wanna acknowledge my son (indistinct) or Mason
who's with me tonight, and all my other friends.
TRIO is here, you can go ahead and give your hand up for us,
and my dear friends and mentors, yes.
(audience applauding)
And then all of my dear friends and mentors.
I wanna make sure that it's very clear
that I'm not up here without a lot of you in this room.
And without those who nominated me,
and without just the dedication over the years
that we even have this award.
So thank you Dr. Barker, Dr. Nkenge,
VC Charlie, and Dr. Combs,
anyone that I may not be seeing right now, or acknowledging,
but thank you very much it means a lot.
I wanna start with a story.
Long, long time ago, my ancestral grandfather,
Chief Dull Knife, the wife that I'm descended from,
Pawnee woman actually lost her life
in the state of Nebraska.
So these are stories that I grew up with.
We were on the run.
We were leaving Oklahoma, no more than 355,
mostly women and children who asked their leaders,
Chief Dull Knife, and Chief Little Wolf
to take them back to our ancestral lands
in Western Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana area.
And that's the blood that I come from.
So I want to completely dedicate tonight's award
to my ancestral relatives, to my people,
not just my tribal people, but all Indigenous people,
who have sacrificed for me to be here today.
I grew up on the Winnebago Indian Reservation
up in Northeast Nebraska.
It was a very beautiful childhood,
and I wanna acknowledge all of those ancestral elders
who gave me the courage to leave the reservation,
and believed in me,
even when sometimes I didn't believe in myself.
The last thing that I'll leave you with is something that
I'm titling this part of my story.
When I came to college it was tough at times
being probably the only Native a lot of times,
but the way I look back on it is,
it was the day that I met myself,
that I met who I really was.
And so that is something
that I'm gonna be eternally grateful to UNL for, so.
I've had a great ride, thank you everybody.
(audience applauding)
-: Hello, I'm Betty Dessie, and I serve as the chair
for the Committee of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
under the Association of Students
of the University of Nebraska.
On behalf of ASUN,
it gives me great pleasure to announce the winner
of the second annual Promising Undergraduate Leader Award.
This award designed to highlight the outstanding
contribution to diversity, equity and inclusion
by undergraduate student leaders
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
represent the transformative and impactful work
initiated by student leaders.
This year's winner
of the Promising Undergraduate Student Leader
is Emily Cheramie,
a senior English major with minors in art, math,
and women and gender studies,
an undergraduate representative
for the Chancellor's Commission
on the Status of Gender and Sexual Identity,
and a member of the women's rifle team.
As an athlete, student, and leader at UNL,
Emily is the founder
of the Big Ten Queer Student Athlete Coalition,
a group whose mission is to make the conference
in each member's school a better,
and safer place to be queer in athletics.
In addition, Emily's dedication to the classroom
is inspiring.
She was one of six Huskers selected for the Collegiate Rifle
Coaches Association All-Scholastic team.
Since her time in Nebraska,
Emily has consistently showed her interest and commitment
to serve the athletic department and her peers
in a leadership capacity in both work and mindset.
Since joining the Nebraska Rifle program,
Emily has been
a Student Athlete Advisory Commission representative,
and has sat on the Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee.
As a student member on the Chancellor's Commission
on the Status of Gender and Sexual Identities,
she advocates for more inclusive policies
for the LGBTQ+ communities on campus.
Emily also served as a student speaker for Nebraska's
Annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit at Nebraska
speaking to her peers about the importance of inclusion.
Emily serves on the leadership team for N-volved,
a discussion-based social climate leadership group,
that provides student athletes with a safe space to discuss,
and explore current events and have difficult conversations.
Her nominator noted:
Time and time again, Emily has shown that her courage,
and desire to pave a way for those alongside and after her
have shown that her primary goal
is never just to be the best athlete,
but to be the best person and advocate she can be.
Please join me in congratulating Emily Cheramie
as the recipient of the Promising Undergraduate Leader
for the 2021-2022 academic year.
(audience applauding)
-: Thank you, Betty,
and thank you for everyone for being here tonight.
It really does mean a great deal.
And thank you to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion
for this distinction.
It is a great honor to accept this award,
especially knowing how many other undergraduates
are creating lasting and impactful change on campus,
and in the community.
I have had the pleasure to meet so many great young leaders
during my time here at Nebraska,
who are all deserving of being recognized
for their work and dedication.
I would like to thank Dr. Chatters
for continuing to support me
in what I hope to accomplish here at Nebraska,
and across the conference.
I also need to thank my mentor, DaWon Baker.
Without him and his support and guidance,
I would not be standing in front of you today.
He's always supported me in everything
that I've wanted to accomplish at Nebraska,
and without him I wouldn't be pursuing grad school,
or this line of work.
While he was here I basically lived in his office
in the athletic facilities, constantly bothering him,
and wanting to do more.
It's his fault that you have to sit here,
and listen to me give you this speech today.
(audience laughing)
And for that I'm so grateful.
Someone else's office I would constantly escape to
is Sammi Cowger.
She encouraged me to be myself,
and made me comfortable in a place
where I might have otherwise been an outcast and excluded.
She's the reason that I was hanging around
the life skills area in the first place,
and got to meet DaWon, so thank you, Sammi,
for always letting me crash in your office.
If you would've told me my freshman year
that I would be standing here in front of you today
accepting this award I wouldn't have believed you.
I know a lot of people use this turn of phrase,
but I genuinely mean it.
The last five years have been nothing but transformative.
It's hard to be done with a career
as I am now with shooting,
but it also means that I get to start the rest of my life,
and begin the work that in my heart,
I know I've always wanted to do,
but didn't always have the confidence to pursue.
There's still so much to be done when it comes to diversity,
equity and inclusion,
especially in college athletics and here at Nebraska,
but I leave knowing that UNL is in a better place
than when I found it.
I leave this campus looking towards the youth.
It's hard not to think of myself as the youth anymore.
I mean, I'm only 23,
but I've been called a grandma for being a fifth year,
so bear with me,
but I'm not, I'm getting up there in age.
There's a lot happening in the world right now.
So much divisiveness and anger,
but I'm continuously inspired by those younger than me.
They're not taking crap from anybody.
And so I leave knowing that the future of this university
is in exceptional hands.
I think that's all I can hope for.
There's a quote by Alan Turing
that has been my driving motto since high school,
my senior quote, in fact.
We can only see a short distance ahead,
but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Five years later it still rings true,
but more than ever I'm ready for the challenge.
Thank you again.
(audience applauding)
-: Hi everyone, good evening, my name is Talhah Mustafa,
and I am the Diversity and Inclusion Committee co-chair
for the Graduate Student Assembly.
On behalf of the GSA,
it gives me great pleasure to announce the winner
of the second annual Promising Graduate Leader Award.
This award designed to highlight the outstanding
contribution to diversity, equity and inclusion
by graduate and professional student leaders
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
presents the transformative and impactful work
initiated by student leaders.
This year's winner
of the Promising Graduate Student Leader Award
is Kaitlin Tademy,
the fourth year PhD student and graduate teaching assistant
in the Department of Mathematics.
Since joining the Mathematics Department
as a graduate student in fall 2018,
Kaitlin has developed into an outstanding leader
for the department's instructional mission
in supporting the professional development of instructors
in the department in multiple ways.
Kaitlin has carried out an analysis of the experiences
of first-generation and BIPOC students
in two of the first year mathematic classes.
She presented the results of this analysis,
and the resulting recommendations
to the Mathematics Department as a whole,
and in various professional development activities.
Kaitlin took a lead role in students' recruitment efforts,
and in developing questions for focus group interviews.
As a result of her leadership role,
Kaitlin was invited to present her findings
to faculty and fellow graduate students in the mathematics
and the department's 2021 fall orientation workshop.
And later at the department seminar for DEI,
excellence in teaching.
Having become known as a leader in inclusive instruction,
these presentations were followed up with a special session
titled "Building and Maintaining Community."
During the spring 2022 orientation workshop
for first and second year GTAs at this session,
Kaitlin led her colleagues in developing strategies
to establish a strong,
and inclusive sense of community among students,
and to nurture and maintain the sense of community.
Additionally, Kaitlin was asked
by the Department of Mathematics chair
to serve as the first graduate student representative
on the Mathematics Department DEI Committee.
Kaitlin has been a very active member of the committee
offering insights that help determine action and items,
and goals for the committee,
and taking a lead role in drafting culture,
and climate surveys for the graduate students,
and for the faculty and staff.
Please join me in congratulating, Kaitlin Tademy,
as a recipient of the Promising Graduate Student Leader
for 2021-2022 academic year.
(audience applauding)
-: Oh, my gosh, I'm so nervous.
I'm, like, genuinely shaking.
This is so awesome, okay, I'll put this down
'cause I wrote a speech.
Thank you so much for this award.
It is such an honor to be receiving this award,
and I couldn't have gotten this award,
or have done any of the work that I've done
without all the people who've supported me.
So I would like to take a moment to thank everyone involved,
and be a little specific about a few.
So, first, I'd like to thank Michelle Homp.
Michelle, will you wave.
That's Michelle Homp, she's my mentor.
Thank you so much.
Michelle nominated me for this award and for other awards
because she's just so in the business of supporting me,
and valuing the work that I do and the goals that I have,
and helping me achieve them,
so thank you so much, Michelle, for the support,
and the encouragement and the celebration
that you give to me day to day,
and the reminders that my work and my impact are valuable.
Thanks so much.
I would also like to thank the math department as a whole,
for being a community that I can thrive in,
and a community that empowers me to change,
or to be the change that I want to see
in the math community.
All of the people in the math department inspire me,
and fill me with hope for the future.
And finally, of course, I'd like to thank my family,
and my friends who just give me the space
to be my authentic self because we can't make the changes
that we wanna make in the world
without being our authentic selves.
I find myself in a uniquely powerful position right now
as a graduate teaching assistant in the math department,
because I find that I can impact people in powerful ways.
And I didn't even realize
that as a graduate teaching assistant,
I could have so much power to empower people,
which I think is the purpose of power is to empower people.
And I'm really, really grateful to be in this position
right now to make change,
but it's also made me realize
that no matter what position I'm in I can make change,
and no matter what position we're in we can make change.
And this award is also reminding me of that,
so thank you so much.
That's all I have to say.
(audience applauding)
-: Please join me in recognizing, again,
our 2022 award recipients.
(audience applauding)
I mean, all I can say is just wow.
I am certainly even more inspired around this work
after hearing their stories and hearing what drives them,
so thank you.
I also want to applaud those who submitted nominations.
We had a significant increase in nominees from last year,
as you can imagine.
And for me, this just demonstrates an understanding
of what it means to lift up those who aim to advance
inclusive excellence for impact and for transformation.
I want to encourage members
of our UNL community to nominate or renominate
individuals and departments next year.
There were many deserving individuals
in groups that we could not recognize just in one event,
and those forums will open in fall of 2022,
so please do nominate.
Thank you to Dr. Friday, who's in the back,
and team for their leadership in the award process,
and to those who participated in this evening's events,
Chancellor Green,
Dr. Judy Walker, my colleague,
Ranelle Maltas, Talhah Mustafa, and Betty Dessie.
Thank you for your participation for tonight.
I would be remiss if I did not invite everyone to become,
or remain engaged both in our office,
but also in diversity efforts at UNL more broadly.
If you are not already engaged,
you could certainly participate in events,
so, for example, we have a CEO action event
hosted by Chancellor Green on April 28th.
You could also join our learning community NCLUDE,
which is open to everyone at any time.
You can also volunteer to be a facilitator
with Husker Dialogues.
I know Charlie would appreciate that.
So there are just several opportunities
across our university to be engaged.
And you can learn more about these and other initiatives
if you visit us online at diversity.unl.edu
we have information and resources listed.
You can also email us at diversity@unl.edu.
Lastly, you will receive an email from us
on providing us with feedback.
Please don't delete the email people if you get that.
I know that emails can be cumbersome,
but is a quick and short survey,
and we do rely heavily on your feedback.
So we would ask for your cooperation
in completing those surveys.
Again, thank you for being a part of tonight's experience.
We hope that you be well, take care,
and have a good evening.
We are adjourned.
(audience applauding)