The Institute for Humane Education (IHE) is committed to creating an organization and a world where everyone can thrive. To that end, we actively seek to work with and welcome a diversity of people and partners. We also strive to understand a variety of perspectives. We believe that diversity in its many forms is a catalyst for solutionary action and foundational to a more just, vibrant, and caring community.
At IHE, we leverage the power of education to address multiple forms of injustice through the ongoing work of our various teams, staff, faculty, and board. We recognize that structural injustices, acts of exploitation, violence, discrimination, and degradation remain pervasive across the U.S. and other countries around the world. We also recognize that the systems affecting people are often inextricably bound to the systems affecting our planet and all life. We strive to educate about injustice in ways that equip people to transform systems to be more equitable, humane, and sustainable.
Our Goals and Strategies
To ensure our organization is thriving, advancing towards greater justice, and helping others do the same, we have established the following goals and strategies, which will be reviewed, assessed, and supported by a committee comprised of board members and staff:
Goal 1: IHE’s working environment will attract, support, and maintain a community of faculty, staff, advisors, and board members with a range of different backgrounds and life experiences
- Maintain inclusive recruitment and hiring practices as well as ongoing mentoring and support for all staff and faculty
- Promote safe and open dialogue that welcomes varying perspectives among staff, faculty, and board members regarding issues of diversity and inclusion
- Review key IHE materials and practices in consultation with social justice experts to identify, revise, and meet our justice goals, commitments, and strategies
Goal 2: IHE’s faculty, staff, and board will have continual learning opportunities to expand knowledge about injustice and its impacts
- Engage our staff, faculty, and board in understanding issues around injustice
- Create the space to engage in workshops, readings, brainstorming, and action around solutionary approaches to ending forms of injustice
Goal 3: IHE’s graduate programs, professional learning, and resources for teachers and changemakers will provide ways to collaboratively redress unjust systems
- Integrate issues pertaining to injustice into all foundational courses in our graduate programs incorporating a range of perspectives and including when possible the voices of those who have experienced injustice
- Ensure that our K-12 training programs support solutionary thinking that advances justice for all
Goal 4: IHE will collaborate with an array of mission-aligned partners to achieve mutual goals in the service of diverse constituencies
- Cultivate authentic and reciprocal partnerships that will allow us to work with, learn from, and lift up the efforts of various institutions and organizations that support or serve diverse communities and constituencies
Goal 5: IHE’s resources and offerings will be widely accessible
- Produce and promote free resources for educators and changemakers that address injustice
- Offer free webinars to educate about injustice that are open to the public
- Offer our Solutionary Micro-credential Course and as much of our professional development as possible free of charge or at reduced cost to ensure access for everyone regardless of their ability to pay
