STEMM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change helps institutions identify policies, processes, programs and practices that perpetuate exclusion and create systemic barriers to diversity, equity and inclusion through a voluntary self-assessment process. This fall, Benson expanded the UT Dallas Strategic Plan to include a new initiative to foster diversity, equity and inclusion with specific goals across the University. By focusing on broad-based systemic change, SEA Change moves diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from the work of one department to a universitywide approach, Pearson said. “Diversity, equity and inclusion is often relegated to the margins of what universities do,” she said. She noted that a lack of diversity, equity and inclusion at institutions has contributed to inequitable outcomes in infrastructure, health care, access to medical facilities and accessibility.