Goal 1 Progress
Goal One: Affirm a commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence and allocate the appropriate resources for implementing the institutional diversity plan.
- Make diversity an institutional priority(ongoing)
- Board unanimously adopts the Plan (October 2009)
- Established implementation Committee of Senior Officers (Spring 2011)
- Established Advisory/Steering Committee of faculty, staff, and students
- Report annually and publicly on progress on diversity goals (ongoing)
- Progress Report issued (Spring 2011)
- Secure new grants and gifts for scholarships (ongoing)
- Secured $100,000 grant from CIC/Wal-Mart Foundation to create Momentum Program (2010)
- Established the Carole Isaak ALANA Student Scholarship (2010, currently below $25,000 level required to fund)
- Review marketing materials, includes websites to reflect diversity on campus (ongoing)
- New Website foregrounds diversity goals and activities (Summer 2011)
- Development of Momentum program identity, marketing materials and website (Fall 2010/Spring 2011)
- Incorporation of Momentum as standard program offering in admissions recruitment materials
- Designed web presence of MLK celebration as part of marketing plan for week
- Produce a calendar of events of events of diverse cross-cultural programs and religious and cultural holidays, linked to website
- Events Calendar on Website (Summer 2011)
- Print events calendar (Fall 2011)
- Conduct formative and summative assessments of diversity plan objectives
- Conducted a comparative analysis of 2008 and 2011 NSSE data on questions related to diversity (2011)
- Assessed the Institutional Learning Goal related to cultural understanding for Middle States progress report (2010)
- Surveyed faculty about the effectiveness of Core Curriculum to achieve the Institutional Learning Goal related to cultural understanding (2011)
- Implementation Committee assessed progress on objectives (April 2011)
- FISS data related to diversity reviewed by Dean of Faculty (Spring 2011)
- Enrollment and Retention committees conduct data analysis of student persistence and graduation rate of ALANA and International students (2009, ongoing)
- Institutionalize the use of a diversity campus climate survey and other appropriate means of monitoring the campus climate over three years
- Employee Work Environment Survey (Spring-Fall 2011)
- Established Institutional Research benchmark data for tracking for recruitment, retention, and graduation for international and ALANA students. (Fall 2009)
Remaining from Goal One
- Set annual goals for resource allocation for diversity initiative.
- Establish fundraising strategies to increase scholarship for underrepresented groups