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Developing Your Unit's Diversity Plans - Sample Ideas
The initial academic diversity plans presented by the academic unit included strategies such as:
• Attention to websites and literature
• Improving the environment in the department
• Noting a need to provide professional development for faculty and staff
• Seeking external funding for additional scholarships
• Goals to hire more diverse faculty
• Assisting in more aggressive recruitment of underrepresented students, especially Youth Program alumn
• Adding diversity efforts as a factor in performance reviews
• Multifaceted plans
Student Affairs specific, address diversity by:
• Encouraging or orchestrating attendance at diversity programs
• Providing opportunities for dialog
• Partnering with other units on diversity programming
• Partnering with other universities
• Networking to increase diversity of hiring pools
• Hiring diverse students
• Ensuring professional development for staff, students, and faculty
• Integrating diversity language, examples, exercises, etc. in established Student Affairs activities
• Role models
• Inclusive committees
Administrative units, address diversity by:
• Look for ways to enhance your unit's strategic plan by adding diversity components
• In your unit, look for opportunities to address:
− Processes
− Procedures
− Physical environment
− Programs
− Networking
− Hiring pools
− Services to students, faculty, andstaff
− Provide staff professional development
− Partnerships
• Attend one nontraditional conference or meeting to establish new contacts
• Attend the holiday celebrations and develop some of your own (per Dr. Mroz's letter)
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