{"id":24976,"date":"2024-09-27T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=24976"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:35:14","slug":"national-award-recognizes-purdue-veterinary-medicines-continued-excellence-in-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/national-award-recognizes-purdue-veterinary-medicines-continued-excellence-in-diversity.php","title":{"rendered":"National Award Recognizes Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s Continued Excellence in Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the fifth consecutive year, the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine has received the national Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. Presented by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education, the award recognizes U.S. health colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. As an award recipient, the college will be featured, along with 70 other recipients, in the November\/ December 2024 issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purdue Veterinary Medicine assistant dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, Marsha Baker, said the college has a strong record of advancing core values of DEI through evidence-based mentoring, teaching, research, hiring, promotion, recruitment, and retention.  \u201cAs a result, our college has established a solid foundation for sustaining a welcoming environment and actively valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion,\u201d Baker said. \u201cReceiving this award demonstrates that we have outstanding programmatic initiatives, and that our approach to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion is interwoven into all aspects of our missions of learning, discovery, and engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The college\u2019s DEI programs include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n