Living the Principles of Our Equitable Community

Greetings –

The Council for Equity and Community, in partnership with the Vice Provost for Academic Diversity, are pleased to invite you to an exciting new offering at Lehigh called “Living the Principles”.

This yearlong program will expand the conversation about equity and community on our campus.  Our community has endorsed the “Principles of our Equitable Community” (PEC), a series of values that we hold to be integral to our character.  They are widely displayed throughout our campus and distributed to each of our incoming students, faculty, and staff. 

We believe in these principles and to bring them to life, we have asked members of our community to lead a series of in-depth discussions of each principle.

Each event will invite its participants to discuss concrete ways (activities and practices) to enact and affirm a principle on campus. Discussions will take place at the President’s Residence, with a sumptuous dinner provided courtesy of Sodexo. The Spring semester dates and topics (abbreviated from the PEC) are listed below.

Thursday February 16: Rejection of Discrimination

Thursday March 2: Academic Freedom

Thursday March 23: The Right to Think and Speak

Thursday April 6: Dignity in All of Us

Dinners will begin at 5:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome – these discussions will be most fruitful if the diverse voices that make up our community are heard.  As space is limited to 25 per workshop, kindly RSVP by visiting outreach.lehigh.edu/content/living-principles.

We are pleased at our community’s increasing participation in inclusion-oriented events and would like to include as many members as possible. Therefore, please sign up for your favorite principle, leaving the remaining workshops for others to participate.  Watch your email for announcements of the Fall 2017 dates covering the remaining principles.

Also, please mark your calendars for this semester’s “Tackling Tough Topics Together” brown bag discussions. They will be held at noon on:

February 17

March 3

March 31

April 21 

The date and location for these events will be released soon.

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