The Eller Way
Eller College's Annual Report
As a member at the Eller College community, you embrace a long and sustained culture of excellence.
Our college is nationally recognized, and your contribution is critical to our continued elevation. Our standards are high and call you to:
- Do the right thing 100 percent of the time: INTEGRITY
- Consistently surpass ordinary standards: EXCELLENCE
- Create a community where everybody thrives: INCLUSION
- Creatively anticipate and leverage change: INNOVATION
- See challenges as opportunities: DETERMINATION
This is The Eller Way
More than a business school, Eller is a catalyst.
Here, students gain the skills and experience to thrive—professionally and personally, locally and globally—in any career they set their sights on.
The Eller Way | Create a community where everybody thrives: INCLUSION
The Eller College of Management is genuinely committed to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at our organization. This is part of the Eller Ideal: Inclusion | Diversity | Accessibility | Leadership
While working with students, staff, faculty, alumni, industry experts, and peer institutions, we aim to heighten DEI at Eller by not just following trends but commit to being thought leaders.
Recent Accomplishments:
- Coordinated trainings on QPR Gatekeeper which is for suicide prevention
- Awarded Eller Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards to Alfredo Cuestas’23 BSBA (Accounting), EK Green ’23 PhD (Economics), Briana Fulp, Career Coach & Undergraduate Diversity Coordinator, and Katie Maxwell, Associate Director of Dhaliwal-Reidy School of Accountancy
- Created “The IDEAList” Newsletter in July 2022
- Updated the Eller website adding the Diversity Dashboard, Reporting Options, and McClelland Hall Accommodations
At Eller, we use the AIIM framework:
(A) Augment Awareness by conducting surveys and exit interviews, gather data, present DEI information at Eller meetings
(I) Increase Understanding of the Underlying (root) Causes by analyzing the data, define issues to be addressed, and examine root causes of the issues
(I) Implement a Strategy for Change through a new DEI committee, increase curricular offerings that integrate DEI knowledge, schedule DEI related training sessions, increase the diversity of search committees
(M) Measure and hold Accountable by instituting methods to collect data that informs and ties DEI efforts to performance evaluations
Eller College National Board of Advisors Members
The Eller Way | Do the right thing 100 percent of the time: INTEGRITY
Ways to Engage and Give
There are many opportunities to get involved at the Eller College and have a major impact on our students.
Find an engagement opportunity or contact Colleen Bagnall Perra, senior director of development