Everyday Inclusion 2026: Duck Vision

What is Everyday Inclusion?

Everyday Inclusion is a month-long, portfolio-wide inclusion initiative that brings together staff in the Finance and Administration portfolio to pause, connect, reflect, learn new things, and participate in different activities on campus.

What is the theme for 2026?

We are pleased to announce that the theme for Everyday Inclusion 2026 is Duck Vision.

Your VPFA Diversity Committee is planning several events to support employee connection and flourishing, and we can’t wait to share them with you. 

This year’s Duck Vision theme honors our feathered friends and their amazing sense of sight. 

Did you know:

  • A duck’s field of vision is nearly 360°
  • They are able to focus on objects that are near and distant, or objects in two separate locations, at the same time
  • Ducks can see three to four times further than humans, and their eyes can see colors that we cannot perceive

It’s true! Ducks see nearly everything, in more colors than we can imagine, and from many perspectives at once. 

How can we support our own Duck Vision for deeper insight in 2026?

--VPFA Diversity Committee

Sticker contest

We’d like to ask your help to design the sticker that will be distributed to all who participate in Everyday Inclusion events. Stickers will be printed as 3”x3” in full color and shared with employees throughout the month of January.

Pull out your Mr. Sketch markers or dust off those MS Paint skills and create something special to share with your VPFA colleagues!  We’ll take submissions in any form, via email to VPFAdiversity@uoregon.edu or delivered to the VPFA office in Johnson Hall. 

Please submit your sticker designs by November 21, 2025.  

Previous sticker submissions for 2024 and 2023 are available online for inspiration.

Photos from 2024 VPFA activities (from left): tree tour, sustainability tour, JSMA tour, women in the campus built environment tour, yoga session

Community Connection Opportunities: August-December 2025

In the lead-up to Everyday Inclusion month in January 2026, we are offering a few opportunities for community connections. Some of the events are tentative at this point; more information will be added as details are finalized. Please reach out to Debbie Sharp (dsharp@uoregon.edu) to register for the events below, or suggest ideas for other activities and events before or during January 2026.

Day and time

Event

Wed, Aug 20, 9:30-10:15am

Tour of Print Services

  • We'll take the EmX to the Baker Downtown Center or you can bike, scoot, or drive; there's car parking in the back of the building if you have a university permit (the lot is a zone C)
  • Limit: 15 people
UO Print Services entrance of the Baker Downtown Center

Thurs, Aug 21, 9:30-10:15am

Willamette River Natural Area Tour with Emily Hamblen, CPFM Sustainability Office

About the Walk: In 2022, the University of Oregon had the foresight to designate 24 acres of property as the Willamette River Natural Area. Following this, the University of Oregon Campus Natural Areas Program was initiated in June 2024 and has quickly expanded from a single employee to a vibrant community of students, volunteers, researchers, and external collaborators leading to the engagement of 360+ students, 550+ volunteer hours, removal of 24 truckloads of invasive species, planting of 172 native trees and shrubs and hosting 21 events.  Search for wildlife and native plants as we view student-led restoration projects and discuss the strategies used to address the Natural Areas Program’s three-pronged mission of creating restoration, engagement, and research opportunities for students and the surrounding community. 

About the Guide: As an Oregon Native, Emily is excited to use her 20+ years of wildlife biology experience to give back to the community that she grew up in. She started her journey at Lane Community College, followed by a dual Major in Wildlife and Conservation and Zoology (Oregon State University) and M.Sc. in Wildlife and Conservation Biology (Colorado State University).   Emily joined the UO in June 2024 as their first Natural Areas Steward.

Where to meet: Meet Emily and your VPFA colleagues at the Map Station right next to the south side of the Autzen/Frohnmeyer bridge.

 

Birds seen on the tour: (photos by Anupam Katkar)

Red tailed hawk in tree
Downy woodpecker on tree
Osprey flying over the river

 

Wed, Aug 27

Tours of the Central Power Station

  • 9am-9:45am
  • 10:30am-11:15am
Spiral staircase leading down into a power station tunnel

Thurs, Aug 28, 8:15-9:15am

Campus Tours in English and Spanish

Large tree in front of Lillis business complex--lots of windows in the middle with the UO "O" in yellow; blue sky above

Tues, Sept 9, 9:30-10:15am

 Text reads in circle: UO Zero Waste Program What Goes Around Comes Around. Inside are three circling arrows (recycling logo) plus a mountain, forest, and lake

Tour of CPFM's Zero Waste facility: meet at the Millrace Overlook.

Map showing Millrace Outlook at left, on northwest corner of Onyx Street, across from Wilkinson House

Wed, Sept 24, 11:30am-12:30pm

Guided tour of the Transgressors exhibit at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Indigenous femme-presenting person on horseback with a white dress and rainbow ribbons

Fri, Sept 26, 2-3pm

Tours of exhibits at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (free for UO staff, students, and faculty)

9 colorful pieces in a 3x3 grid by James Lavadour

JSMA curators provided guided tours of two exhibits:

The curators will also provide an overview of the following exhibits, which we are free to explore on our own for the last 20 minutes.

Jan

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