Warren Scherer is the Assistant Dean of Students, and the Director of Gender and Sexuality Campus Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He leads an array of campus-wide services that focus on the ideas of equity and intercultural campus initiatives for minoritized students. In our conversation today, he shares the perspective of what it means to do diversity, equity, and inclusion work at the university level. We talk about some of the various student populations that should be considered when creating policy, questions one should ask themselves when thinking about policy implementation, and why this work is so important in higher education.
Thank you for participating in Uplighting Impact. I was so delighted to have Warren on as a guest and as a friend to look up to. I’m so glad that we have so many young people and young professionals who are going to be able to learn from this work as they grow into the wonderful leaders that they’re going to be. If we continue to be transparent and use our social capital to ask questions and to show up with this perspective, we can completely change the way we are including other people in the world, and make it better.