Strategies to Achieve
Horizon Project Goals: Practices
Inclusive excellence is synonymous with institutional excellence, and it informs how practices and habits transform to include diverse people and perspectives, especially those from underrepresented and underserved groups. The ongoing and adaptive practice of inclusion impacts campus culture and climate. Enacting equitable practices and ensuring equitable outcomes demonstrates commitment to social justice. Through engaged pedagogy and scholarship, lecture series, visiting scholars and myriad other practices, we will be able to enrich our campus culture and enable students, faculty, staff and administrators to gain greater appreciation for religions, cultures, ways of life and points of view beyond their own.
Develop and Adopt
Every academic and administrative unit on campus will develop and adopt a plan for diversity and inclusive excellence following a University adopted diversity planning framework and include the following six elements (where applicable):
- Access and recruitment of students of color
- Success and retention of students of color
- Faculty, staff and administrator access, recruitment and development
- Enhance campus culture to be more welcoming
- Curricular and co-curricular learning
- Community partnerships and democratic engagement
Review and Enact
Review public safety protocols and enact best practices for working with diverse populations
Dining and Hospitality
Embrace new dining and hospitality practices to integrate Black and African, Asian and Hispanic cultural foods
Embrace
Embrace new university procurement practices to significantly improve the percentage of purchases from minority, women and veteran owned businesses, with an emphasis on local businesses
Presidential Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards
Awards will recognize the accomplishments of faculty, employees, students, and departments/units/organizations, whose contributions have promoted and enhanced the diversity of our community and elevated inclusive excellence, diversity, equity, and social justice as important priorities of the University