Inclusive Community
The University of Central Oklahoma recognizes the university's main campus is located on the traditional lands of the Caddo and Wichita people. Visit the UCO Land Acknowledgement website to learn more.
Our Mission
Inclusive Community’s mission is to plan, lead and implement, in collaboration with university partners, institutional change initiatives to advance equity for the purposes of cultivating and sustaining inclusive excellence at the University of Central Oklahoma. Our goals are to:
- Provide our university partners with tools to identify and overcome barriers to equity; and,
- Advance an inclusive community that recognizes human dignity and mutual respect.
Inclusive Community at UCO
The University of Central Oklahoma affirms and promotes diversity in areas including race, class, gender identity/expression, ethnicity, culture, religion, ideology, (dis)ability, affectional orientation, veteran or military-connected status, citizenship or residential status, care-giver/parental status and other aspects of self-identification. Our appreciation of diversity includes an awareness of the historical heritage on which the university was founded and the many struggles and sacrifices, both historically and currently, that confront underrepresented communities. Given this awareness, we actively strive to enrich the experience of our entire community by implementing practices that support those communities served least well by existing systems. We do this not only because it is right, but also because diversity enriches the experiences and expands the social and conceptual horizons of students, faculty and staff members, while enhancing the university’s ability to contribute to the intellectual, cultural, economic and social advancement of the communities and individuals it serves. Learn more about how we have and continue to work to enhance inclusive excellence by exploring our Year-End Review.
INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY Year-end review
Meet the Leadership Team
Dr. Jennifer Williams Molock (she/hers)
Asst. VP for Inclusive Community
405-974-2953
jmolock1@uco.edu
Cristi Moore, M.Ed. (she/hers)
Inclusion Strategist
405-974-2952
cmoore60@uco.edu
Liz Wallace, M.Ed. (she/her/we)
Director for the Inclusive Community Student Hub
405-974-5949
etabak@uco.edu
UCO Definitions
Diversity results from the intersectional engagement of values, perspectives, and world-view that emerge from different identities and lived experiences such as, but not limited to, race and/or ethnicity; gender, including gender identity and/or expression; sexual orientation; ability and/or disability; age; religion; socioeconomic and/or class status; language; national origin and/or immigration status; status as a veteran; learning style; and organizational role.
Equity encompasses a variety of practices that remove barriers and facilitate the inclusion and empowerment of members of communities that have experienced exclusion from or marginalization within an organization.
An Inclusive Community is one that intentionally and consistently fosters belonging, personal growth, and empowerment for all.
Belonging is the feeling of security and support, the experience of mattering or feeling cared about, accepted, respected, valued by, and important to the community.