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Managing Our Social Impacts

Managing Our Social Impacts
GRI ID 102-8 GRI ID 401-1 GRI ID 405-1 GRI ID 406-1 GRI ID 103-1 GRI ID 103-2 GRI ID 103-3

Ensuring Diversity & Inclusion in Our Campus Community

Why This Matters to Us How We Manage How We Evaluate and Improve

Why This Matters to Us

Students at UT Arlington come from every state and more than 100 countries, resulting in one of the most diverse campus populations in the nation.

UTA continues to shine in the national rankings and has been named one of the nation’s top universities for ethnic diversity, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Colleges Rankings for 2016.

The recognition comes on the heels of UTA receiving a new $2.62M Department of Education grant for the establishment of the Innovation, Diversity, Excellence, Access and Success, or IDEAS, Center – a resource aimed at helping increase students. UTA is the only four-year university in North Texas to receive the 2015 Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program grant that will enhance services for transfer and other non-traditional students to help more underserved students earn college degrees. UTA was designated a Hispanic Serving Institution in 2014 and was named the Outstanding HACU-Member Institution the same year. UTA was also named one of the Top 200 Colleges for Native Americans by the Winds of Change magazine.

UTA’s efforts to enhance diversity and support students are further reinforced through specific centers such as the Center for African American Studies, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and the Center for Hispanic Studies in Nursing and Health (CHSNH). CHSNH has become a go-to resource center for the health and human condition of underserved and culturally diverse Spanish-language populations in Texas and abroad.

UT Arlington recognizes that equal participation of minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans in all employment opportunities is a necessary component of any effective Affirmative Action Plan.

How We Manage

It’s not only our student body that is recognized for its diversity. We pride ourselves on attracting and maintaining a highly diverse and talented pool of professionals who administer all functions of the university everyday. Or compliance mechanisms set the standard for interaction in and outside the classroom.

The UT Arlington Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) has been developed and is designed to assure compliance with federal law, rules and regulations; compliance within the UT System Regents Rules and UT Arlington policy. HYPERLINK "" Equal Opportunity Services and the UT Arlington’s Human Resource office partner in developing and implementing the University’s AAP and affirmative-action-related charges.

EOS functions as the contributor of content management of the AAP and assists in identifying and engaging in actions intended to bring the university community into full participation in all aspects of equal opportunity and equal access. EOS also functions in the formulation, recommendations, and implementation of official university documents and plans relevant to affirmative action and equal opportunity.

It is the policy of the university to be in compliance with all federal and state laws, regulations, and procedures. Refer to Workers' Compensation Insurance (WCI) (Procedure 8-7) for further details regarding Workers' Compensation Insurance.

How We Evaluate and Improve

EOS and Human Resources monitor the AAP and affirmative action related charges. EOS monitors official university documents and plans relevant to affirmative action and equal opportunity.

The Executive Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity Services (EOS) serves as UT Arlington's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Officer and is authorized to investigate complaints based on discrimination.

As with employee rights observed by UTA, student employees also have the right to file a grievance regarding disagreements, complaints, or differences with an employer. Student employees also have the right to appeal employment-related decisions.

Student Diversity Ethnicity by Academic Year

Ethnicity

Academic Year
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

American Indian

Student Count 145 125 117 127 123 95
% of Academic Year Total 0.34% 0.29% 0.26% 0.27% 0.24% 0.23%

Asian

Student Count 3953 4094 4169 4572 4830 4302
% of Academic Year Total 9.35% 9.58% 9.37% 9.60% 9.51% 10.31%

Black

Student Count 6750 6671 6956 7381 8157 6435
% of Academic Year Total 15.96% 15.61% 15.63% 15.50% 16.06% 15.43%

Hispanic

Student Count 8546 9085 9799 10905 12317 10818
% of Academic Year Total 20.21% 21.26% 22.02% 22.90% 24.26% 25.93%

International

Student Count 3373 3916 4764 5361 5436 4655
% of Academic Year Total 7.98% 9.17% 10.71% 11.26% 10.71% 11.16%

Multiracial

Student Count 710 774 832 884 965 850
% of Academic Year Total 1.68% 1.81% 1.87% 1.86% 1.90% 2.04%

Pacific Islander

Student Count 83 85 80 79 66 32
% of Academic Year Total 0.20% 0.20% 0.18% 0.17% 0.13% 0.08%

Unknown

Student Count 432 381 408 397 329 221
% of Academic Year Total 1.02% 0.89% 0.92% 0.83% 0.65% 0.53%

White

Student Count 18293 17592 17369 17913 18552 14304
% of Academic Year Total 43.26% 41.18% 39.04% 37.62% 36.54% 34.29%

Total

Student Count 42285 42723 44494 47619 50775 41712

Gender Ratio, Students

Gender

Academic Year
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

Female

Student Count 24886 25045 26048 28251 31036 24747
% of Academic Year Total 58.85% 58.59% 58.54% 59.33% 61.12% 59.33%

Male

Student Count 17399 17678 18446 19368 19739 16965
% of Academic Year Total 41.15% 41.38% 41.46% 40.67% 38.88% 40.67%

Total

Student Count 42285 42723 44494 47619 50775 41712

Diversity at the Workplace

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We are proud that many of our faculty and staff have devoted their entire professional lives to UTA. Our 1702 employees have a collective 569 years of tenure according to our 2016 year end count. Others are members of families with direct engagement on campus and in the local community. There is a direct correlation between their satisfaction and the excellent educational community they create for our student body.

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Promoting Health, Safety and Security

Why This Matters to Us How We Manage How We Evaluate and Improve

Why This Matters to Us

The health, safety, and security of our faculty, staff, and students is of the utmost importance for creating an environment where all can feel safe to work and learn. It matters to our mission and our reputation as an institution of higher learning that adds value to human endeavors such as learning, research, and community service. The university is committed to providing employees, students, and visitors with a safe environment and we have several programs in place to create a culture and environment that supports the health and wellness throughout our campus community.

How We Manage

The University’s Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Office is responsible for managing safety and health programs for the University and for working with the other University of Texas System components towards developing local safety programs that are of benefit to the overall UT system. In doing so, regular incident and accident reports are logged and investigations are carried out when significant issues affect the health of the community. Additionally, the EH&S Office has implemented an Environmental and Regulatory Management System (ERMS), which is a methodical approach to minimize adverse environmental impacts, maintain regulatory compliance, promote sustainability, and encourage safe work practices at UTA.

How We Evaluate and Improve

The Environmental Health & Safety Office performs periodic internal program reviews and participates in the UT System Environmental Health & Safety Peer Review Process. It is through the Peer Review Process that performance is evaluated and measures are developed to identify safety and environmental compliance issues, as well as, finding possible methods to improve the effectiveness and efficiency within established programs, continuously monitoring, and improving operations, UTA achieves its goal of meeting or exceeding our compliance with applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and voluntary standards.

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Laboratory Evaluation Program

Environmental Health & Safety has implemented a revised Laboratory Evaluation Program Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). This SOP placed increased importance on timely response and accountability of the individual responsible for the laboratory and encouraged consistent and effective safety practices.

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UTA MavSafe Emergency Response App

Every member of the campus community needs to know what to do in various emergencies. Environmental Health & Safety and the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) have launched MavSafe, an Emergency Response Plan App, so the UTA community can have emergency resources readily available on any phone, tablet, or computer device.

GRI ID 103-1 GRI ID 103-2 GRI ID 103-3 GRI ID 203-1 GRI ID 203-2 GRI ID 413-1 GRI ID 413-2

Serving Our Local Communities

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Why This Matters to Us

UTA is a major presence in the city of Arlington and the North Texas Region. It draws many of its students from the area and is the second largest employer in the city. It is important that we acknowledge the significance of our relationship with the community. We understand that both the university and city benefit in numerous ways when we participate in dialogues, initiatives, and programs.

Dedicated community relations need to be an ongoing process in order to maintain a mutually beneficial engagement. We value this relationship because it benefits everyone from our faculty and students to members of the community.

How We Manage

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is among a handful of major metropolitan areas worldwide that dominate both human creativity and planetary economics. In fact, about 20 of the world’s largest and most influential corporations call North Texas home. UTA is strategically positioned in the heart of this the thriving region—the nation’s fourth-largest metropolis—to change the trajectory of thousands of lives each year. We relish our role as an economic catalyst and influential community ally, fostering collaborations that magnify our focus on developing tangible solutions to real-world challenges. We transfer our insights from the laboratory and classroom directly into the community—to corporations, hospitals, cities, schools, and other high-need, high-impact entities.

In addition to giving and volunteerism, service learning integrates academic coursework with service to the community. Students engage in classroom activities and discussions and perform local projects related to their academic coursework and reflect upon those experiences.

The following provides a snapshot of the various avenues in which we engage.

How We Evaluate and Improve

The needs and interests of the student body are core to the programming and support the Development, Student Affairs and Community Engagement Offices extend. Through regular surveys and an open-door approach, we are able to gather critical feedback as to what works and what more is needed to complement students’ academic experience and to prepare them for the world beyond. When larger forums are evident, we convene the appropriate parties to discuss, further weigh and evaluate options. When a consensus is reached, critical stakeholders formalize support for initiatives to ensure they succeed.

UT Arlington Social Engagements Types

Giving

UTA engages in philanthropic endeavors and in community service projects in Arlington and across the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. The UTA family is continually reaching out to those in need. There are many student organizations on campus that make notable contributions to the community through service and fundraising support.

The women of Delta Delta Delta sorority led the campus in raising funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in April 2016. The 3-on-3 basketball tournament was a local effort in support of a goal set by the national sorority to raise $60 million in 10 years. Thanks to the activities and the support of students across campus who took part in various events, families with children with some of the rarest forms of childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases are able to envision a future of hope.

Student Support Services

The Lockheed Martin Career Development Center established in partnership with Lockheed Martin prepares students and alumni for professional success and connect employers with UTA talent.

Thanks to a gift from the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF), the Goolsby Leadership Academy has created the BNSF Early Leader Program. This extension of the Academy will accept incoming business-intended freshman and is dedicated to strengthening the leadership ability of students. For more, see BNSF leadership academy at UTA.

Veteran Outreach

Innovative Community Academic Partnership (iCAP) was created to inspire community academic partnerships that promote social and economic justice affecting vulnerable individuals, children, and families.

Volunteerism

STEM Academy for high school students is a partnership between the University of Texas at Arlington and the Arlington Independent School District to provide students interested in science, technology, engineering or mathematics careers a new opportunity to dive deep into rigorous courses along four pathways: science and mathematics; biomedical science and biology; engineering; or technology and computer science. This program provides a service to the youth in the community who will be better prepared to enter STEM majors in college and go on to careers in these fields. The program supports the community and attracts talented students to the university.

The Arlington Urban Design Center aims to create public awareness about the importance of urban design and its impact on the quality of life, environment, and economic investment. Graduate students and professors from UTA’s College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs (CAPPA) work closely with city staff on real world business and development projects.

The Center for Community Service Learning integrates academic coursework with service to the community. Students engage in classroom activities and discussions and perform local service projects

UTA Volunteers is a Follett Student Leadership Center membership-based student group that plans and implements volunteer opportunities, social awareness programs, and civic engagement for UTA students within the surrounding community. Its purpose is to promote active citizenship by building capacity for students to become involved in the larger community.

The Big Event at UT Arlington is an event to plan and implement a day of community service and outreach involving students, faculty, staff and community members in an effort to engage, educate, and mobilize volunteers throughout the community. Numerous community-based and non-profit organizations and agencies convene to provide services to children, senior citizens and low-income families, and those that promote the quality of life, such as the Science Center at River Legacy Park, Arlington ISD.

The Institute of Urban Studies gives students in our urban-related programs the opportunity to integrate theory and practice to solve real metropolitan problems such as managing growth, achieving equity and environmental sustainability, revitalizing districts, and implementing green infrastructure.

The Community Garden Project is an organic Community Garden at UT Arlington, built in collaboration with the city of Arlington where members of the community can adopt one of the 78 plots in the half-acre garden. As part of the $35 annual plot use agreement, gardeners donate at least half of their produce to Mission Arlington, the garden’s designated food bank program.

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The Big Event

The purpose of The Big Event at UT Arlington is to plan and implement a day of community service and outreach involving students, faculty, staff, and community members in an effort to engage, educate, and mobilize volunteers throughout the community. The Big Event impacts the community by bringing the campus together with the surrounding community in an effort to show gratitude to those who help others. Numerous community-based and non-profit organizations and agencies benefit from volunteer efforts, as well as local residents, including those that provide services to children, senior citizens and low-income families, or those that promote the quality of life, such as the Science Center at River Legacy Park, Arlington ISD, and other various projects. Volunteers are proud to help others improve the lives of the people who rely on these important services and facilities The Big Event has seen tremendous growth over the past 17 years since the first event in 2000. Participation grew in 2017 to reach more than 800 volunteers who completed projects at more than 50 different agency project sites and donated thousands of hours of community service.

The event continues to gain momentum by attracting more volunteers and providing more assistance to our community. Enthusiastic volunteers participate in various service project sites such as painting, landscaping, youth development workshops, and facility cleanup all on one BIG day.

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Protecting Privacy

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Why This Matters to Us

Faculty, staff, and student privacy is material to our operations because of the trust placed in the university to protect confidential information. The university is committed to ensuring the privacy and accuracy of confidential information, and as such, has developed this privacy statement. The statement has two purposes:

(1) To educate users about privacy issues;

(2) To inform users about specific privacy policies and guidelines employed at UTA.

How We Manage

Our approach to protect privacy takes many forms starting with our Web Privacy Standard, which is managed by the Information Security Office (ISO). UTA does not actively share personal information gathered from its web servers. However, because UTA is a public institution, some information collected from UTA websites, including the summary server log information, emails sent to websites, and information collected from web-based forms, may be subject to the Texas Public Information Act.

This means that while UTA does not actively share information, in some cases it may be compelled by law to release information gathered from its web servers.

UTA also complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which prohibits the release of education records without student permission, unless certain exceptions apply. Although FERPA regulations apply only to UTA students, the university is equally committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our website.

How We Evaluate and Improve

The ISO responds to security incidents, prevailing threats, breaches, intrusions, and/or system abuses that originate from external networks against UT Arlington, or those that originate from the university’s network. In addition, ISO evaluates and reports the status of UT Arlington’s information security program and, as appropriate, incidents to the President, Executive Management, University of Texas System, and to the State.

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