UW-Milwaukee’s School of Nursing (SON) faculty, staff, students and alumni are committed to providing an environment where everyone feels welcomed and strives together to ensure our ideals and values are shown in all that we do. We create an environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, where every voice is recognized, and where every person belongs and thrives.
We will accomplish this by listening to one another with respect and including every voice and every viewpoint across a broad range of people working together by providing leadership for innovation in health care with the goal of strengthening communities.
Through dialogue, we will seek to understand and learn how to ignite meaningful relationships with one another. When we know better, we do better.
The SON STRONG Thriving Together committee is responsible for reviewing, recommending school policies, procedures, and practices, where applicable and/or when requested, to support excellence across our mission. We also develop educational programs and opportunities which support our SON community in being a safe and welcoming environment where each and every person feels a sense of connectedness and belonging.
The STRONG Thriving Together committee meets monthly in open, public meetings. Voting members are elected, and we welcome volunteers.
UWM Resources
UW-Milwaukee offers many resources and support services related to a thriving environment. Here are just some of the places that faculty, staff and students can call upon for assistance.
- UWM Division of Community Empowerment & Institutional Inclusivity
- UWM Office of Equal Opportunity & Civil Rights
- UWM Dean of Students
- UWM LGBTQ+ Resource Center
- UWM Military and Veterans Resource Center
- Women’s Resource Center
- American Indian Student Center
- Black Student Cultural Center
- Roberto Hernández Center
- Southeast Asian American Student Center
- Multicultural Scholars Collaborative
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.
UW-Milwaukee Nursing Inclusivity Statement
Revised and Approved on October 21, 2022
Our Values:
The core values of our School are accountability, collaboration, creativity, diversity & inclusion, excellence, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.
We value equity and inclusion within our community around age, race, sex, ethnic origin, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, abilities, and religion. Diversity makes our culture stronger.
We value an environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, where every voice is recognized, and where every person belongs and thrives.
Our Vision:
We stand against racism and all other forms of prejudice and discrimination. We will be a School that embraces inclusivity and diversity in all its definitions.
We will identify and reduce our internal biases at both the personal and organizational levels. We will create an inclusive environment that is a safe space for dialogue that is grounded in our core values.
We will create an educational culture that will undo the harms of colonization so that all students can learn and succeed.
We envision a future of healthcare leaders and peacebuilders who dismantle systems of oppression and address the dire consequences of health inequities.
Our Actions and Responsibilities:
We will accomplish our aspirations through listening to one another, centering marginalized voices, and self-reflexivity.
Through dialogue, we will seek to understand and learn how to ignite meaningful relationships with one another. When we know better, we do better.
We will work individually and collectively to identify, evaluate, and change our School policies, procedures, curricula, and recruitment/retainment efforts that perpetuate systemic and organizational racism and bias.
We will hold all members of our community accountable to demonstrate principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion by participating in ongoing personal and professional development through annual review processes.
We will hold our School accountable to create a culturally safe environment that provides resources for ongoing education and evaluation, including processes to address concerns of racism, discrimination, and bias.
Land Acknowledgement:
We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.