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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

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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.