The Advisory Committee Diverse and Inclusive Higher Education and Research (DIHOO) provides independent advice to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, as well as to the field of higher education and research. These recommendations concern the promotion of diversity and inclusion.
Vision
The Advisory Committee Diverse and Inclusive Higher Education and Research has stated its vision on diversity and inclusion. The full text is included below.
The committee's starting point is the social responsibility to promote diversity and inclusion in higher education and research, which also inherently ensures quality.
Diversity refers to all the visible and invisible characteristics, experiences and/or backgrounds in which we differ and agree with each other. Inclusion is the achievement of an environment where everyone belongs, is seen, and participates as a matter of course.
Diverse talents, abilities, and backgrounds are indispensable to the quality of education and research, but are not always recognized or are excluded due to often unconscious biases and invisible institutional processes resulting from reproduction of historical choices.
In an inclusive working and learning environment, diversity at the level of students, staff, curriculum, and research is valued, sought out, and utilized. Working on diversity and inclusion requires a collaborative and sustainable approach at the societal, political, and institutional levels.
About the Advisory Commitee
On 1 September 2020, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven, presented the National Action Plan for Greater Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Research.
The National Action Plan for Greater Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Research is aimed at the creation of a diverse and safe learning and working environment, within which everyone is able to develop in order to promote the quality of education and research. To achieve this ambition, the Advisory Committee on Diverse and Inclusive Higher Education and Research was established.
The members of the Advisory Committee
For me, diversity equity and inclusion are a way of life. Vinod Subramaniam