increasing inclusivity at cwu creating an inclusive space for academic excellence
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DIVERSITY BINGO
What have you taken away from this exercise?
Diversity is the extent to which an organization has people from diverse backgrounds students, staff, administrators and faculty.
Inclusive institutions not only engage diverse groups but are learning centered, value different perspectives, incorporate the views and needs of diverse communities into the way they do business, and are diverse at all levels.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
WHAT IS YOUR DEPARTMENT’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION STORY?
Create a department story that describes your current state of diversity and inclusion.
RE-CRAFTING THE STORY
Components Components of your diversity story
Set the Stage Insightful description of the current situation, economics, success and forces that drive change
Enablers How will your departments succeed—what is the pathway to building an inclusive culture
Measuring academic excellence
Metrics
DISCUSSION
What influence does diversity have on your environment?
What diverse perspectives are within CWU that we can tap into and gain a broad and realistic picture of the environment?
Reflecting on the CWU strategic plan and your department plan who is missing from the table?
Shared assumptions and beliefs and values that distinguish a group and shapes patterns of behavior.
Develops over time Passed down through
generations of leaders
Culture is sensed as soon as you walk in the door.
“how things are around here” Prevailing ideology
Culture is important
Enables engagement Enables commitment Provides direction for
values, purpose and goals
Defines and bolsters an identity
Creates a sense of community
CREATING AN INCLUSIVE CULTURE
LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION CULTURE
Artifacts Visible representation of culture through ritual, stories, dress,
structure and behavior
Espoused Values Strategies, goals, and operating principles that represent what the
organization stands for, and what it wants to accomplish
Basic Underlying Assumptions Unconscious, taken for granted beliefs, perceptions of feelings that
guide values and actions
What are the key attributes of your department culture that promote diversity and inclusion?
How are the attributes a barrier to diversity and inclusion?
REFLECTING ON THE CULTURE
CULTIVATING CAPABILITY
As soon as Lisa began speaking to the student’s parent in Spanish, he became calm. Higher education is like a foreign country for some and add to that the inability to speak the language can be scary. If Lisa had not been able to speak in his native language could we have served his daughter, yes we could of but he may not have been as comfortable. It is important to try to represent the community we serve and we serve a diverse student body with diverse families.
STRATEGY
Case statement for diversity and inclusion
Specific systems and processes in your department that you would like to link to diversity and inclusion practices
Example: CWU Theme 2 illustrates diversity ideology---values that support that ideology—practices that support academic excellence, retention and graduation----how are they supported.
CULTIVATING CAPABILITY
Academic excellence, increased retention, increased graduation
Organization effectivenes
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Implement a strategy
Integrate institutional capability
with human capital and
management practices
Investment in diversity
and inclusion
ASSESSING
Diversity Scorecard System for measuring the impact of your initiatives in terms of how
they contribute to the strategic plan of the university Captures the appropriate indicators of your diversity performance and
displays the results in a comprehensive way
Strategic Goals
Improve a work environment that rewards and recognizes excellence, attracts people from underrepresented groups
Improve support to an alliances with others whose missions call for inclusion
Increase partnerships with communities of color
Faculty, staff and students
Faculty, staff and administrators
Works with other departments in a meaningful way
Work with communities in your regional area—build relationships
DIVERSITY SCORECARD
WHAT DO WE MEASURE?
Leadership commitment
Workplace culture/climate
Classroom culture/climate
Co-curricular and curricular culture/climate
Policies and procedures
TELL YOUR STORY
Think strategically and link to student success
Provide an engaging narrative
Use data
Make comparisons
Highlight patterns
Tell your story over and over and make your diversity story known to the campus community.
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