As you know, I established a Workplace Diversity Task Force to identify and eliminate barriers that may restrict diversity when recruiting, training, promoting, and soliciting nominations for awards. This taskforce has already been very helpful, and I expect it will continue to be so. Our success in science and everything else we do is dependent on the contributions of all our employees. Our goal is to make the Beltsville Area a place with a diverse workforce in which all employees receive equitable treatment. Each of us is unique.
Obvious differences are age, gender, race, and physical ability.
However, we also vary in language, geographic origin, religion, intellectual ability, education, personality, sexual orientation, family status, personal habits, interests, income, work experience, and job assignment. Our individual blends of differences and likenesses make each of us unique, and uniquely able to contribute to the success of the Beltsville Area.