Social Equity
The University of Florida has set aggressive hiring and retention goals to ensure the university reflects society’s racial, ethnic and gender diversity. UF also strives to ensure that all personnel are rewarded with a livable wage and benefits, including benefit packages for spouses and domestic partners of university employees. The university seeks to ensure that contractors affiliated with the university meet or exceed the wage policy established for university employees. Since 2006, the university’s fulltime graduate students have been offered health insurance.
Business Partner
UF and Follett are working to ensure that sweatshop labor is not used in the production of UF branded clothes. Through a third party monitoring agency, Follett observes factories to ensure that no child or sweatshop labor is used to make products sold in their stores. In addition, they review reports form human rights organizations, labor groups, and other organizations and governments that provide data on this issue.
UF also has a number of student organizations that focus on social equity
issues. For a list of all the student groups, and how to get involved,
visit: http://www.sustainable.ufl.edu/students.html
