We Create Caring and Inclusive Communities
Our goals coalesce around four key areas to transform organizational culture and behavior within the division.
These areas are culture, climate, and community building; recruitment and retention; infrastructure; and learning and development. Focusing on these four areas is critical to integrating this work into all that we do.
Goal 1: Cultivate a supportive and respectful climate that values differing perspectives and experiences.
- Build strategies to sustain an environment that acknowledges and celebrates diversity.
- Employ inclusive excellence practices in daily operations.
- Evolve a culture where all community members feel welcomed, valued, and have a sense of belonging.
- Establish a restorative community of practice where the Division of Student Affairs comes together to build trust, community, and healing.
Goal 2: Recruit and retain diverse staff at all levels.
- Develop and implement policies and practices that ensure successful recruitment, retention, and promotion of staff with marginalized identities.
- Support inclusive excellence within job descriptions and functions.
- Enhance professional development and mentorship opportunities for staff, specifically those with marginalized identities, to facilitate retention and promotion.
Goal 3: Ground our infrastructure and decision-making in Divisional values.
- Ensure policies, practices, structures, resources, and metrics drive commitments to inclusive excellence.
- Demonstrate departmental accountability for strategic plan components.
- Collaborate across departments to leverage and enhance inclusion, diversity, and equity, learning, and development.
- Fully resource the Department for Student Experience & Culture.
Goal 4: Enhance competencies and build capacities related to creating inclusive and caring communities that center belonging and well-being.
- Grow awareness, knowledge, and skills that center inclusive excellence in students and staff through division-wide learning and development opportunities.
- Promote a shared framework for divisional and departmental learning and development opportunities.
- Implement training and development on inclusive excellence and equity in decision-making, policies, and practices.