GOAL: To create an environment in which all members of the collegiate community—students, staff, and faculty—are welcomed, supported, and able to thrive.

Access and opportunity

Design and implement policies and practices that ensure everyone can thrive.

  1. Review current college policies, practices, and communication channels, using lenses from established research, to ensure they are both transparent and equitable. 
  2. Participate in university-wide efforts (faculty, staff, and students). Work with other colleges to establish shared best practices and support coordinated efforts (workshops, minors, certificates, etc.).
  3. Ensure that administrators, faculty, and staff are accountable for implementing equitable practices. 
  4. Create more opportunities for student, staff, and faculty feedback throughout the college.
  5. Conduct exit interviews of students, staff, and faculty.

Community

Create and sustain a community that fosters a sense of belonging.

  1. Educate and train students, faculty, staff, and administrators on inclusive learning experiences.
  2. Organize, support, and promote workshops, events, and recognition.
  3. Expand mentoring, engagement, and on-boarding programs for students, staff, and faculty.
  4. Assess, redesign, and reengineer organizational structures and processes to promote teamwork, collaboration, cross-functional operations, and transparency.  

Diversity

Diversify student, faculty, staff, and leadership populations.

  1. Invest in and develop best practices for recruiting that will increase the diversity of student, faculty, and staff populations.
  2. Collect, analyze, and share demographic data, as appropriate, with faculty, staff, and students at least annually.
  3. Develop policies and procedures that hold search and graduate committees accountable for the diversity of applicant and short-list pools, as compared to availability pools.
  4. Improved retention and promotion of underrepresented faculty and staff.

We can meet our access, opportunity, diversity, and community goal if we create and sustain a productive and welcoming environment and recruit, retain, and advance a diverse student body, staff, and faculty.