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Access and Success
2030 Vision: Recruit and support exceptionally talented, diverse, and service-oriented students. Recruit, support, and retain excellent and diverse faculty and staff.
Climate and Intergroup Relations
2030 Vision: Continuously promote and strengthen an inclusive community of trust, a culture of integrity, mutual respect, excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
Education and Scholarship
2030 Vision: Enable faculty, staff, and students to work across traditional boundaries and prepare servant-leaders to shed new light on enduring and profound questions in our diverse community and globally connected world.
Infrastructure and Investment
2030 Vision: Be a community that consistently lives its values and ensures that our systems enable our students, faculty, and staff to do their best work.
Community and Partnership
2030 Vision: Be a strong partner with and good neighbor to our region, contributing to economic and social well-being by providing accessible health care, innovative education, opportunity, and engaging alumni.
Inclusive Excellence Plan
The School of Data Science views its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as mission-central and integral to the institution's overall future success and has published its first Inclusive Excellence Plan (2023-2026).The School of Data Science at the University of Virginia was founded in 2019 as a "School Without Walls" and is committed to responsible data science for the common good. Our core values, as outlined in our five-year strategic plan, define our culture and therefore what and how we practice.
- Excellence - What we do, we do best.
- Inclusivity - We respect people, value diversity, and are committed to equity.
- Openness - We are committed to open innovation and transparent teamwork.
- Be FAIR - We support the ability to Find, Access, Interoperate, and Reuse data and all other research and education products.
Underscoring the School’s vision is a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that we seek to connect to every aspect of the School. In our Inclusive Excellence Plan, we set universal goals for our students, staff, and faculty. However, the strategies developed to achieve those goals are targeted, based upon how different groups are situated within our structures and culture. We encourage you to review highlights from the School’s Inclusive Excellence Plan, as well as an overview of the Plan itself, found above.