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Mission

Excellence through community

Driving change on campus and beyond

Six strategic drivers guide our work

  1. Representational Diversity: cultivating, attracting, and retaining excellent medical students, faculty, and staff who reflect the communities with which we work, both locally and globally. 
  2. Inclusive Climate: building a community that respects, celebrates, and leverages its diversity to advance medical education, physician training, and excellent patient care. 
  3. Equitable Opportunity: advocating and advancing policies, programs, and partnerships that promote equitable opportunities for academic and professional success. 
  4. Sustainable Partnership: pursuing opportunities for shared leadership and governance models that engage the talents and essential perspectives of Stritch students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community partners; prioritizing the development of relationships to help sustain partnerships, a foundation of a dynamic and thriving Stritch.   
  5. Holistic Well-Being: honoring Loyola’s Jesuit mission, tradition, and identity as an institution committed to cura personalis (care for the whole person) through integrated strategies to support Stritch community members.  
  6. Culturally Responsive Care & Leadership: engaging students, faculty, and staff in meaningful learning and professional development experiences that cultivate the capacity to care, teach, learn, and lead in a diverse and global world.

Guided by these drivers, we focus on five areas

  1. Under-represented in Medicine (URiM) Outreach, Recruitment, Retention, & Success  
    Stritch works in partnership with local and global communities to address persistent health inequities.
    We work to reduce the disparity between the diversity of our campus communities, patient population(s), and, ultimately, the U.S. physician workforce. We strive to promote more equitable access to the field of medicine  and related professions by managing several “pipeline programs” for persons from underrepresented backgrounds.  
  2. Inclusive Community Building, Advocacy, & Engagement  
    Stewardship requires creating a welcoming and nourishing community. Opportunities for shared stewardship, leadership, and governance are vital to any academic institution and particularly, academic medicine. Medical students, trainees, faculty, and staff are essential partners in this work. Our office strives to pursue a fundamental commitment to critical community praxis, a bedrock of genuine solidarity (and core ethic of care) that we foster through one-on-one advising, consultation, mentorship, partnership advocacy, and fellowship. 
  3. Education, Training & Development 
    We help foster a spirit of intellectual curiosity and a sense of community for the reflective study and practice of medicine. Faculty and staff teams design innovative ways to engage their colleagues and students in educational and professional development experiences to cultivate the capacity to care, teach, learn, and lead. 
  4. Sustainable Partnership, Policy & Resource Development 
    We know that a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is only meaningful when institutionalized through formal partnerships, policies, and resource allocation, which in turn establish a precedent for daily interactions, activities, and organizational operations. The ODEI team maintains and refines an infrastructure to support sustainable transformation in service to equity and justice.  
  5. Institutional Excellence, Data, & Outcomes Monitoring  
    In partnership with student, faculty, and staff leadership across academic and clinical departments, the ODEI team helps monitor and advance institutional effectiveness on community-related outcomes.  
    Monitoring includes: directing the annual Stritch Diversity Questionnaire, contributing to the school’s accreditation process through the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and participating in Loyola’s Racial Justice Examen through the University's Anti-Racism Initiative.  In 2022, the ODEI team lead a multi-year process of institutional reflection, data collection, and program evaluation to examine our organizational alignment and effectiveness in cultivating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Stritch community.

Six strategic drivers guide our work

  1. Representational Diversity: cultivating, attracting, and retaining excellent medical students, faculty, and staff who reflect the communities with which we work, both locally and globally. 
  2. Inclusive Climate: building a community that respects, celebrates, and leverages its diversity to advance medical education, physician training, and excellent patient care. 
  3. Equitable Opportunity: advocating and advancing policies, programs, and partnerships that promote equitable opportunities for academic and professional success. 
  4. Sustainable Partnership: pursuing opportunities for shared leadership and governance models that engage the talents and essential perspectives of Stritch students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community partners; prioritizing the development of relationships to help sustain partnerships, a foundation of a dynamic and thriving Stritch.   
  5. Holistic Well-Being: honoring Loyola’s Jesuit mission, tradition, and identity as an institution committed to cura personalis (care for the whole person) through integrated strategies to support Stritch community members.  
  6. Culturally Responsive Care & Leadership: engaging students, faculty, and staff in meaningful learning and professional development experiences that cultivate the capacity to care, teach, learn, and lead in a diverse and global world.

Guided by these drivers, we focus on five areas

  1. Under-represented in Medicine (URiM) Outreach, Recruitment, Retention, & Success  
    Stritch works in partnership with local and global communities to address persistent health inequities.
    We work to reduce the disparity between the diversity of our campus communities, patient population(s), and, ultimately, the U.S. physician workforce. We strive to promote more equitable access to the field of medicine  and related professions by managing several “pipeline programs” for persons from underrepresented backgrounds.  
  2. Inclusive Community Building, Advocacy, & Engagement  
    Stewardship requires creating a welcoming and nourishing community. Opportunities for shared stewardship, leadership, and governance are vital to any academic institution and particularly, academic medicine. Medical students, trainees, faculty, and staff are essential partners in this work. Our office strives to pursue a fundamental commitment to critical community praxis, a bedrock of genuine solidarity (and core ethic of care) that we foster through one-on-one advising, consultation, mentorship, partnership advocacy, and fellowship. 
  3. Education, Training & Development 
    We help foster a spirit of intellectual curiosity and a sense of community for the reflective study and practice of medicine. Faculty and staff teams design innovative ways to engage their colleagues and students in educational and professional development experiences to cultivate the capacity to care, teach, learn, and lead. 
  4. Sustainable Partnership, Policy & Resource Development 
    We know that a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is only meaningful when institutionalized through formal partnerships, policies, and resource allocation, which in turn establish a precedent for daily interactions, activities, and organizational operations. The ODEI team maintains and refines an infrastructure to support sustainable transformation in service to equity and justice.  
  5. Institutional Excellence, Data, & Outcomes Monitoring  
    In partnership with student, faculty, and staff leadership across academic and clinical departments, the ODEI team helps monitor and advance institutional effectiveness on community-related outcomes.  
    Monitoring includes: directing the annual Stritch Diversity Questionnaire, contributing to the school’s accreditation process through the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and participating in Loyola’s Racial Justice Examen through the University's Anti-Racism Initiative.  In 2022, the ODEI team lead a multi-year process of institutional reflection, data collection, and program evaluation to examine our organizational alignment and effectiveness in cultivating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Stritch community.