CU President Todd Saliman is pleased to announce the President's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award recipients. This annual recognition honors individuals and units who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and significant contributions to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion across CU.
When Agnessa Vartanova joined CU as associate vice president of internal audit just over three years ago, she was new to higher education. The accounting professional arrived from DaVita Inc., a Fortune 500 company in Colorado, and she previously served in corporate leadership positions at TTEC Holdings Inc. and Ball Corp., another Colorado-based Fortune 500 company.
The Office of Academic Affairs and the Open CU Committee on Tuesday recognized exceptional individuals dedicated to open educational resources (OER) with the OER Champion Awards. Each honoree received a $650 award and was recognized by President Todd Saliman at the awards presentation hosted by the Office of Academic Affairs at 1800 Grant St. The event also featured the announcement of a record amount of funding through the Colorado OER Grant Program, promising the continued adoption and creation of OER to benefit University of Colorado students at the four campuses.
Women earn 82 cents compared to every dollar made by men, according to the Pew Research Center. That difference, known as the gender pay gap, has remained essentially stagnant from where it was two decades ago. And despite recent promises from chief executives of their commitment to diversity and inclusion, incomes for people of color have actually trended downward, said CU Denver Management Professor Traci Sitzmann. “If everybody was doing as well as the CEOs are saying, we should see the overarching statistics trending in the right direction,” Sitzmann said. But we’re not, so Sitzmann and her colleagues are working to understand why—and what might work to change the status quo.
