• Title IX – OIE http://oie.ucf.edu/ & askanadvocate@ucf.edu
• Disability Accommodation – Student Accessibility Services – http://sas.sdes.ucf.edu/ &
sas@ucf.edu
• Diversity and Inclusion Training and Events – www.diversity.ucf.edu
• Student Bias Grievances – Just Knights response team – http://jkrt.sdes.ucf.edu/
• UCF Compliance and Ethics Office – http://compliance.ucf.edu/ &
complianceandethics@ucf.edu
• Ombuds Office – http://www.ombuds.ucf.edu
UCF School of Performing Arts Diversity and Inclusion Statement
The University of Central Florida School of Performing Arts considers the diversity of its
students, faculty, and staff to be a strength and critical to its educational mission. UCF expects
every member of the university community to contribute to an inclusive and respectful culture
for all in its classrooms, work environments, and at campus events. Dimensions of diversity can
include but are not limited to sex, race, age, size, national origin, ethnicity, gender identity and
expression, intellectual and physical ability, sexual orientation, income, faith and non-faith
perspectives, socio-economic class, political ideology, education, primary language, family
status, military experience, cognitive style, and communication style. The individual intersection
of these experiences and characteristics must be valued in our community.
Members of the UCF School of Performing Arts are committed to actively listening to
perspectives that are different than their own, and actively affirming and including different
perspectives in the creative process, including but not limited to sex, race, age, size, national
origin, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, intellectual and physical ability, sexual
orientation, income, faith and non-faith perspectives, socio-economic class, political ideology,
education, primary language, family status, military experience, cognitive style, and
communication style. We aim to demonstrate our commitment to diversity through selection of
content to be performed, course content, recruitment, leadership, faculty makeup, and a
constantly evolving conversation with students, faculty, patrons, and the UCF community.
We, as members or the School of Performing Arts,
1. Will not tolerate racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance,
ageism, or hate speech in any form.
-“Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes
racial inequities.”
2. Affirm that students, faculty and staff will be heard, acknowledged, supported, and safe
from any retribution for expressing their needs and opinions.
3. Will reflect equity and diversity in the curriculum, theatre season selection, concert
selections, marketing, leadership and casting.
4. Will strive to ensure that artistic and creative teams pursue inclusion on those teams of
the people whose stories they are telling, so that the stories of diverse ethnic and social
backgrounds are told responsibly. All teams should reflect the diversity of the student
body whenever possible.