DEI
Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at CIRES
DEI
Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at CIRES
Vision
Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values at CIRES. Our lived commitment to these values shapes our work culture and is essential to how we practice excellence and integrity in environmental research.
Mission
CIRES will advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in these ways:
- Inclusive Workplace Culture: Fostering an inclusive, respectful culture that recognizes and embraces the diversity of our communities.
- Diverse Workforce: Building capacity to successfully recruit and hire a diverse workforce.
- Authentic Partnerships: Creating authentic partnerships with those who are most impacted by our work and with organizations that serve underrepresented and marginalized groups in environmental sciences.
At CIRES, we work to foster an inclusive, respectful culture that recognizes and embraces the diversity of our communities.
Our goals include:
- Enabling and encouraging inclusive supervision and mentoring
- Building responsive feedback mechanisms
- Offering responsive programming that supports the development of inclusive work environments
- Supporting employees in documenting their DEI work annually
- Annual reporting on the workplace culture and retention data
At CIRES, we are building capacity to successfully recruit and hire a diverse workforce.
Our goals include:
- Increased use of inclusive hiring strategies
- Broadened recruiting efforts and strategic partnerships with minority-serving institutions (MSIs)
- Engaged partnership with CU/NOAA affinity groups and developing CIRES employee resource groups
- Monitoring the outcomes of our recruiting, hiring, and retention efforts
At CIRES, we strive to create authentic partnerships with those who are most impacted by our work.
Our goals include:
- Improved awareness regarding cultural differences and effective relationship building with external communities
- Education and engagement efforts that are culturally sensitive and broad-reaching
- Collaborations with local communities that use our research to build environmental justice policy
- Regular trainings for science communicators on inclusive language and digital accessibility
CIRES DEI Events
Please see information below on our recent CIRES seminar series focused on Leadership in Tribal Engagement Learning, designed by our CIRES Tribal advisor James Rattling Leaf.
CIRES employees and their NOAA colleagues can contact James Rattling Leaf (jamesrattlingleaf@colorado.edu) to discuss these events and/or their tribal engagement work.
As part of our commitment to be a workplace where every employee is valued and included, all CIRES employees were asked to complete the Institutes Culture Survey in October 2023. The Institutes Culture Survey is designed to gather data about employee experiences in the academic and workplace environments at CIRES. You can read more about this survey on this CIRES News blog post.
CIRES employees can view unit-specific data (NOAA, NSIDC, CU campus units) on the InsideCIRES DEI page.