Office of Holistic Excellence

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The Office of Holistic Excellence was developed to promote scholarly, creative, and practical  solutions related to diversity of knowledge and thought, both of which are linked with open-mindedness. It also seeks to build empathy, curiosity, and mental fortitude as these allow us to engage with one another more positively and effectively across campus and beyond. The Office is designed to build an inclusive environment for all faculty, staff and students and embrace diversity of thought, views and dialogue.

This work is accomplished by:

  • Empowering campus members to explore and integrate a diversity of knowledge, experiences, and perspectives
  • Fostering intellectual empathy to shape personal grand narratives, cultivate a sense of identity, purpose and agency, and put dreams into practice

A recent LearningWell magazine article, , helps to explain the vision for this office.

Mission Statement

  • Build an adaptive and holistic mindset among faculty, staff, and students.
  • Value the exploration of important topics that may be challenging or uncomfortable.
  • Facilitate a robust and inclusive diversity of thought and perspective on campus.
  • Capture views that may be marginalized, missing, or unheard.
  • Increase awareness of our human tendency toward bias and misconception.
  • Nurture and enrich an inclusive and equitable campus community.

Current strategic plan KPIs

OHE Co-Directors

Rima Berry-Hung

 

 

Rima Berry-Hung

Director of Human Resources

 

 

 

 

Shareia Carter

 

 

Shareia Carter

Associate Dean, Dean of Students

 

 

 

 

Marie Waung

 

 

Marie Waung

CASL Associate Dean

 

 

 

Focus Areas

Holistic Excellence Initiatives

  • Digital Storytelling Hub: A Mosaic of Voices.
  • Annual Campus Themes with Workshops, Activities, and Events.
  • Goals: an inclusive campus community; transformative teaching/learning; support of research linked with holistic excellence.

Enhancing the Mission

  • Consider and assess existing activities on campus and their relationship with the OHE.

Internal and External Partnerships

  • Develop a process and criteria for vetting partnership requests; develop and share a list of partners and specifics of what the partnership entails. Include offices such as HR, ECRT, and M-Healthy.

Office of Holistic Excellence

Administration Building
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128