As a result of the work of the President’s Council on Inclusion, established in 2018, the President’s Inclusive Excellence Award has been established to highlight the Rider Community’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The award is presented to a student and faculty/staff who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to at least one of the goals defined in Rider’s Inclusive Excellence Plan Rider’s Inclusive Excellence Plan:
- GOAL 1 - Improve recruitment, retention and graduation rates of students whose identities are underrepresented, marginalized and/or underresourced in higher education.
- GOAL 2 - Improve diversity of employees to better reflect the diverse identities represented in our student population.
- GOAL 3 - Advance cultural competency as a core component of Rider student learning for all students, assuring students can identify and explain the potential benefits and/or conflicts that arise from a world that is a complex, interdependent global system of social, cultural and economic communities.
- GOAL 4 - Develop and maintain a positive campus climate which embraces the diversity of identities for all members of our community, while also promoting inclusion specifically for those who are underrepresented, marginalized and/or underresourced in higher education.
- GOAL 5 - Signify institutional commitment to inclusion by enhancing structural support throughout policies, facilities and resource allocation.
- GOAL 6 - Extend Rider as a leader for issues of inclusion with the surrounding community.