At the Gund Institute, we have a committee focused on these issues. Why? 

A welcoming community will enhance the quality, relevance, and impact of our work, ensure our solutions represent those most affected by environmental challenges, address environmental injustice, broaden the environmental leadership of the future, and train leaders to operate in heterogeneous teams and environments.

The mission of the Gund Community Committee is to strengthen research through authentic engagement across the identities of researchers, educators, and collaborators. We aim to build a cohesive community characterized by trust, respect, and thoughtfulness. We value active learning, participation,  humility, curiosity, and self-reflection. Recognizing that traditional power asymmetries need to be challenged, this voluntary committee—composed of students, postdocs, faculty, and staff—creates opportunities for community feedback and centers plural perspectives in Gund programming, operations, and collaborations.

We invite feedback and discussion from the wider community. The current committee is listed on this webpage. If you have issues you would like to raise with the committee, please contact the faculty co-chairs (or anyone else on the committee you feel more comfortable contacting).

Read more about UVM's Our Common Ground values.