Strategic Action Plan on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

GOAL 2: BUILD AN ENVIRONMENT THAT PROMOTES COMMUNICATION AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 

1.   Create intentional opportunities to foster collaboration, visibility, coordination, and information dissemination regarding available venues and programs dedicated to providing awareness and appreciation for equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Baseline data: These will be new intentional opportunities and they will be documented as the initiatives are implemented. 

Strategy A                   Promote collaboration and coordination among divisions, offices, programs, and groups holding events/programming to avoid redundancy and maximize resources.  Establish the College Consortium on Diversity a standing entity instead of an ad hoc consortium. 

Initiative 1                    The College Consortium on Diversity builds collaborations, advertises, shares information on events/activities, events' visibility, and coordination.  The Consortium develops and promotes guidelines to co-sponsor events and programming.
[Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           College Consortium on Diversity. 

September 2008 – ongoing

Strategy B                   Develop a mechanism to analyze the most recent College data from multiple sources to identify areas of need in relation to equity, diversity, and inclusion. 

Initiative 1                    An Institutional Research designee works with the Associate Provost for Institutional Assessment and Effectiveness in selecting and using statistical analysis techniques (e.g., meta-analysis) to analyze data on equity, diversity, and inclusion from multiple sources, including surveys such as the Student Opinion Survey, and the Building a Better Campus Community Seminars evaluations, the Campus Climate Assessment Survey.
[Acceptance] 

Leader/Partners           Institutional Research designee and Associate Provost for Institutional Assessment and Effectiveness/Office of Equity and Inclusion. 

September 2008 – February 2009

Initiative 2                    Use the results of data analyses (initiative 1) to identify equity, diversity, and inclusion needs, identify resources, and address those needs.
[Acceptance] 

Leader/Partners           Office of Equity and Inclusion, President, and President’s Cabinet. 

April 2009 – December 2009

Strategy C                   Provide more visibility and make more readily available all equity, diversity, and inclusion programming, events, programs, and services offered at the College. 

Initiative 1                    Expand the listing of facilities in the Campus Events Calendar (the College’s only reservation venue for programming, events, and services on equity, diversity, and inclusion) to include programming in residence halls, Goodrich, event locations both in and out of the College, and trips.
[Tolerance, Acceptance, and Appreciation] 

Leader/Partners           Community Relations, Academic Affairs, Student Development, and College Consortium on Diversity. 

September 2008 – ongoing

Initiative 2                    Offer training sessions for the Campus community on how to best utilize the Campus Events Calendar as a tool for information on events/activities, visibility, and better coordination.
[Tolerance, Acceptance, Appreciation, Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC). 

November 2008 – ongoing

Initiative 3                    Make available Electronic Signs in Fine Arts Building and Wilsbach Hall to promote the events on the Campus Calendar and at http://events.oneonta.edu
[Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Event Planners. 

January 2009 – ongoing 

2.   Increase the participation of employees and students by 10% annually in training and programming to raise cultural competencies and promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Baseline data: The most recent professional development endeavor – Building a Better Campus Community Seminars by Bates Consultants (425 employees participated). 

Strategy A                   Develop and provide programming at all institutional levels. 

Initiative 1                    Identify resources available for programming and engage in collaborative efforts toward specific programming opportunities (refer to Objective 1)
[Acceptance & Appreciation] 

Leader/Partners           College Consortium on Diversity/All Divisions. 

June  2008 – December 2008

Initiative 2                    Provide day brown-bag versions of evening programming when appropriate, to best serve the needs of the campus community.
[Acceptance and Appreciation] 

Leader/Partners           College Consortium on Diversity/All Divisions. 

February 2009 – ongoing

Initiative 3                    Create opportunities for exploration of “life experiences and/or circumstances” aimed at persons who have been left out of the diversity and inclusion dimensions. 

Leader/Partners           President’s Council on Diversity and Academic Affairs. 

September 2009 – ongoing

Strategy B                   Provide incentives to employees to engage in equity, diversity, and inclusion-related programming and activities. 

Initiative 1                    Designate funding for departmental projects, specifically for equity, diversity, and inclusion professional development (e.g., participation or presentations to conferences, educational programming).
[All Five Stages of Diversity] 

Leader/Partners           Office of Equity and Inclusion. 

February 2008 – ongoing

Strategy C                   Provide incentives to students to participate in diversity and inclusion-related programming. 

Initiative 1                    Work with faculty and departments to support co-curricular learning by providing students with assignments encouraging their participation and attendance in diversity and inclusion-related programming and activities.
[Tolerance, Acceptance, Appreciation, and Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           College Consortium on Diversity and Academic Affairs. 

September 2008 – ongoing

Initiative 2                    Extend special invitations to faculty and staff for specific events and/or programming.
[Acceptance, Appreciation, and Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           College Consortium on Diversity and Office of Equity and Inclusion. 

January 2009 – ongoing

Initiative 3                    Encourage faculty and staff presence at events and programming to model a campus culture where we are all teachers and learners, benefactors and beneficiaries of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
[Tolerance, Acceptance, Appreciation, and Inclusion]

Leader/Partners           Directors and Department Heads, President, and President’s Cabinet. 

September 2008 – ongoing

Initiative 4                    Create information forums for faculty about all the programming available and how to make the necessary intersection with course-related material and assignments.
[Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           College Consortium on Diversity and Office of Equity and Inclusion. 

January 2009 – ongoing

Strategy D                   Create a safe and welcoming environment for the campus community. 

Initiative 1                    Provide flexible training programs and professional development opportunities that can be tailored to specific audiences and schedules (e.g., Stereotype Threat, A Culture of Inclusion, Anti-Defamation League, Campus of Difference Program, Diversity Storytelling Circle, Continuing the Conversations for Creating a Welcoming Campus Community, National Coalition Building Institute workshops, and Safe Space).
[Tolerance, Acceptance] 

Leader/Partners           Office of Equity and Inclusion, and Leaders and Trainers of these Diversity Models. 

September 2008 – ongoing

3.   Develop programs, policies, and means to address freedom of expression and acts of intolerance toward differences.

Baseline data: Compare new programs and policies to existing ones. 

Strategy A                   Revise and/or develop policies throughout the College to address acts of intolerance toward differences. 

Initiative 1                    Identify institutions with benchmark policies on identity groups that historically and/or presently experience discrimination, unfair treatment, or acts of intolerance.
[Acceptance, Appreciation, Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Affirmative Action Advisory Committee and Gender and Sexuality Resource Center/President’s Cabinet.

January 2009 – June 2009

Initiative 2                    Develop guidelines to write and revise College policies addressing discrimination, unfair treatment, or acts of intolerance.
[Acceptance, Appreciation, Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Affirmative Action Advisory Committee, Office of Equity and Inclusion, and Gender and Sexuality Resource Center/Employee Services and President’s Cabinet. 

October 2009 – December 2009

Initiative 3                    As appropriate, seek policy approval from the President and President’s Cabinet and/or policy endorsement from College constituencies (e.g., the College Senate and the Student Association).
[Acceptance, Appreciation, Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Affirmative Action Advisory Committee, Office of Equity and Inclusion, and Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. 

May 2010 – ongoing

Strategy B                   Create a respectful and welcoming campus community for the identity groups that historically and/or presently experience discrimination, unfair treatment, or acts of intolerance (e.g., AALANA groups, women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities).

Initiative 1                    Develop measures to identify level of these groups’ representation and participation in campus life. 
[Tolerance, Acceptance, Appreciation, Inclusiveness] 

Leader/Partners           President’s Cabinet, Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, Office of Equity and Inclusion/pertinent student groups and College committees. 

March 2008 – ongoing

Initiative 2                    Strive to meet the inclusion factors of the “LGBT Friendly Campus Climate Index” and register the College on the Index site. 

Leader/Partners           Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. 

March 2008 – ongoing

Initiative 3                    Survey campus locations for potential unisex bathrooms and gender neutral spaces to meet the criteria of the Campus Climate Index.
[Acceptance, Appreciation, and Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Gender and Sexuality Resource Center and Associate Vice President for Facilities and Safety. 

September 2008 – January 2009 

Initiative 4                    Develop a resource guide for transgender students and employees.
[Acceptance, Appreciation and Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Affirmative Action Advisory Committee and Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. 

February 2009 – November 2009

Initiative 5                    Review and update the website information to include pictures, convey experiences, and describe the College in ways that include all the voices within the campus community (e.g., logos, symbols).
[Appreciation and Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           Web Coordinator, Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, Center for Multicultural Experience, and Office of Equity and Inclusion. 

January 2009 – ongoing

Initiative 6                    Reflect the inclusive spirit in all College publications as framed by the College Diversity Statement and this Strategic Plan Statement of Values.
[Appreciation and Inclusion] 

Leader/Partners           President’s Council on Diversity, and Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. 

January 2009 – ongoing 

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