Institutional Equity Exchange |
Building Community Through Awareness and Action |
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A Note from Vice President Kimberly Hewitt |
We are excited to share the first issue of the Institutional Equity Exchange which includes information about OIE activities across Duke University and Health System. OIE plays a dynamic and multifaceted role in our community at Duke. Focused on our mission and engaging creativity, we are committed to offering useful and relevant resources to support all aspects of research, teaching, scholarship and work.
This issue we will feature new leaders, institutional efforts and events and educational offerings from the office. During this time where we are seeing many challenges and opportunities in higher education, it is encouraging to explore the various activities that contribute to an inclusive and welcoming environment here at Duke!
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Duke University prohibits discrimination and harassment based upon protected characteristics in all of its programs and activities. The Inclusive Excellence principles communicate Duke’s longstanding efforts to create a learning and working environment rooted in a shared commitment to excellence.
“Our hope is that the principles affirm and clarify existing policies and guidelines, establish new guidelines where necessary, and reflect both our legal obligations and the values of respect, trust, inclusion, discovery, and excellence that guide our institution.”
- Kimberly Hewitt
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Education and Outreach Team |
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Join us for OIE's education workshop series! All workshops take place from 9:30-11:30am. Each workshop session requires registration, but participation is free.
To learn more about the series, please visit OIE's Educational Engagements webpage.
To submit an educational request, please use the Education Request Form.
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April 8 | Social Identity
- April 22 | Discrimination & Harassment Prevention
- May 6 | Communication for Effective Teams
- May 20 | Restorative Justice: The Basics
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Sharon Fernandes Gooding is an experienced professional with over two decades in the field of education and joined OIE in November 2025. Gooding serves as the Associate Vice President for Institutional Equity, Equal Opportunity and Compliance and Title IX Coordinator. In this role, Gooding leads the Harassment and Discrimination unit with strategic planning efforts, educational initiatives, compliance issues, and facilitating a continuum of dispute resolution options related to the implementation of relevant Duke policies.
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Candis Watts Smith, Duke professor of political science, moderated the keynote conversation with Abby Phillip, anchor of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, at Duke University’s annual MLK Commemoration.
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2026 Theme: Hope Powered by Community II: Together We Serve, Advancing Dr. King’s Vision of Humanity and Equity
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2026 Samuel DuBois Cook Awards |
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Samuel DuBois Cook Society honors Duke staff, administrators, faculty, and students (undergraduate, graduate or professional) and local community members whose work, research and service reflect Dr. Cook’s social activism and leadership.
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Award recipients include:
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Cook Society Undergraduate Student Award: Michael Ramos
- Cook Society Graduate Student Award: Pratham Sharma
- Cook Society Staff Award: Whitney N. McCoy Hudson
- Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award: Mitchell Knisely
- Distinguished Service Award: Laurie Patton
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5th Annual Moving Your Unit Forward |
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This retreat brings together Duke’s school leadership teams, academic unit leaders, department chairs and leaders of administrative units to continue the collaborative work of improving local cultures and individual experiences. Our efforts to identify evidence-based interventions and strategies guided by the outcomes of the 2024 Duke Campus Culture Survey.
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Creating Healthy Cultures: Designing Purposeful, Evidence-Based Interventions: |
This session, led by Leigh-Anne Royster and Kevin Thomas, introduced participants to intervention design through practical frameworks and best practices for using campus culture survey data, while guiding them to develop action strategies that support inclusive excellence and innovation within their own units.
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| Accessing and Interpreting Your Data: The Campus Culture Survey: |
This interactive walkthrough, led by Heather Mechler and Merlise Clyde, introduced unit leaders to the Culture Survey Tableau report and built confidence in exploring the data, asking meaningful questions, and extracting key insights.
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| Inclusive Communications in a Polarized Environment: |
This interactive workshop, led by Duke senior communicators, provided an opportunity to explore best practices for effective communication in a polarized environment, apply strategies to real-world scenarios, and gain practical tools grounded in Duke’s new inclusive excellence principles.
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Looking Ahead: The 2027 Campus Experience Survey |
As we look ahead to the 2027 iteration of the survey, the Campus Experience and Culture Advisory Council (CECAC) will lead the Campus Experience Survey, using survey outcomes to better understand community experiences, inform strategies to address areas for improvement, identify needs through data interpretation, and support units and schools in using their data.
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