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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