Endorsements

“The S.A.F.E. Project reflects and advances the institution’s commitment to its core value of diversity by fostering an environment in which everyone can feel a welcome and valued member of the UTMB family.”
John D. Stobo, MD
President

“As our new technological age creates a true global community, it is more important than ever to embrace and celebrate our cultural differences, since these enhance our experience of living. I fully support the aims of the SAFE project, because it actively fosters the understanding necessary for fully appreciating the differences championed in our university’s core value of diversity.”
Charles Christiansen, EdD
Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences

“Support and Acceptance for Everyone (SAFE).  What a wonderful mantra for UTMB!  Our students reflect various viewpoints, perspectives on life, belief systems, lifestyles, ethnicities, and cultures; this is as it should be.  It is the quest for new knowledge and the diversity of the student population that contributes so highly to the stature of a university.  In the absence of diversity we would be come an uninspiring monochromatic institution; and no one wants that outcome!"
Pamela G. Watson, RN, ScD
Dean, School of Nursing

"I am pleased to lend my personal word of endorsement to the SAFE project. One of the reasons I was very happy to move recently to UTMB was because of the obvious way this institution prizes diversity. Diversity, in turn, requires effort to achieve a better understanding of those who are different from us. The SAFE program seems a great way to accomplish this."
Howard Brody, MD, PhD 
Director, Insitute for the Medical Humanities