ILR WIDE Initiative Empowers Inclusion and Diversity Research with Support for 22 Scholars

Ten organizational diversity, equity and inclusion research projects are being supported by ILR Workplace Inclusion and Diversity Education, known as ILR WIDE, which is seeking additional grant applicants.

ILR and Cornell professors, ILR Outreach subject-area experts, graduate students and scholars from other institutions are studying topics from burnout to perceptions of diversity officers’ initiatives as the recipients of the inaugural ILR WIDE grants.

Information about fast, seed, applied research, and graduate conference grants is available here.

“Our grants are at the heart of our mission at ILR WIDE. They allow our faculty to generate timely and impactful research, which serves to assess current DEI practices and innovate new ones. And they ensure that ILR faculty will continue to be thought leaders in the DEI space,” said ILR Associate Professor JR Keller, associate director of ILR WIDE Research & Corporate Outreach.

The ILR Workplace Inclusion and Diversity Education program, seeded by a gift from Tim Wentworth ’82 and his wife, Robin Wentworth, seeks to help promote workplace inclusion and study approaches that foster a culture of inclusive leadership through empathy and dialogue-based interventions.

The program is directed by Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Lisa Nishii, an ILR professor who is one of the nation’s foremost scholars on organizational inclusion.