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Yves Idzerda

 

 

"I have called the CLS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee to lead our college in enhancing and sustaining our efforts to strengthen the diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment of the College. As your Dean, I commit to supporting, recruiting, and hiring for diversity; to providing the resources for designing and strengthening curricula to include diverse experiences and perspectives; to supporting best practices for professional development; and to regular communication with you about our initiatives and your experiences. We welcome you to join us in our commitment to celebrating, cultivating, and supporting the diversity within our College." Read more of Dean Idzerda's commitment to DEI

 

 

 

Diversity Statement for the College of Letters and Science

As the largest center for education and research at Montana State University, the College of Letters and Science knows diversity is our strength. We are proud to enact our land-grant mandate to welcome all students, staff, and faculty, with a commitment to support people of color and others who have been historically underserved. Montana State University is located on the original homelands of Native peoples. We commit to acknowledging this rich history, learning from the past, and being good stewards for the future.  We commit to caring for and nurturing the human, economic, physical, and environmental resources entrusted to us.We respect and celebrate the diverse dimensions of people’s identities in order to best achieve an inclusive environment of excellence in learning, teaching, and research. 

 

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Find resources that will help you learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion in general and on the MSU campus from the Diversity and Inclusion office.

 

Department Highlight

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What Can the Mathematical Sciences Offer to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
by Department of Mathematical Sciences DEI Task Force 
(David Ayala, Katharine Banner, Mary Alice Carlson, Nicole Carnegie,  Ryan Grady, and Megan Wickstrom) 
  
Members of the DEI task force in the mathematical sciences have been asking ourselves how we value diversity, equity, and inclusion in our discipline and where we need to grow and change. Though our work is ongoing, the answers we are developing are both encouraging and challenging. For one, both mathematics and statistics welcome different ways of approaching problems, a value that readily extends to a variety of perspectives and people doing math. Also, mathematical abstraction lends itself to, and is born from, applications. A more diverse community of mathematicians and statisticians broadens the range of priorities represented by those developing and applying methodology, resulting in more innovative approaches that are responsive to a wider range of societal needs. We also recognize that mathematical and statistical models can disguise biased values and propagate inequity.4 Indeed, a typical first step in developing a model is deciding which parameters of a system are the salient ones to measure. To read more about how we are thinking through diversity, equity, and inclusion in our department, click here.
 

 

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    Dean: Yves Idzerda
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