About the OUWB Culture: Diversity and Inclusion

In our Diversity & Inclusion logo, the capital letter "I" links Diversity and Inclusion to remind us that everyone at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine is responsible for sustaining and promoting our culture.

Everyone should believe that I - I personally - am responsible for a culture that values diversity as a strategy for achieving excellence and culture that embraces everyone in our medical school community.

Diversity and Inclusion are natural consequences of a humanistic culture of scholarship and service

At the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, diversity and inclusion are underlying assumptions of the culture - they are not questioned or subject to debate. 

We understand that we cannot possibly create and sustain a high achieving and humanistic culture without including everyone who can contribute and without embracing differences.

Seventy percent of the founding leadership of this school are first-generation college graduates. To gender-balance this school, we would need to recruit more men to leadership positions.

We encourage all who may have never thought of a career in medicine to expand their horizons of opportunity. No one who is talented and dedicated to “promoting, maintaining, and restoring health to individuals and communities served by the school and its graduates” (from the OUWB vision statement) should be excluded from the opportunity to join us.