Universitywide 多样性 Goals
The strategic diversity framework outlines overarching goals intended to focus campuswide efforts and guide unit- and department-level 多样性计划s. The framework’s core goals focus on four areas:
- Reflecting the diversity of God’s kingdom. This goal focuses on developing comprehensive strategies for attracting, 欢迎, and retaining diverse students, 教师, 和工作人员.
- Cultivating diversity and reconciliation competencies. This goal focuses on creating a learning environment where all students, 教师, 和工作人员 develop the competencies needed to facilitate understanding, 疗愈, and reconciliation across differences.
- Fostering an environment of belonging. This goal focuses on promoting respect and dignity for all members of the SPU community and removing barriers to meaningful participation in the life of our campus.
- Maximizing resources for equitable outcomes. This goal focuses on leveraging University resources toward the alleviation of disparities in student outcomes and experiences.
Department-level diversity action plans
Between 2018–2021, each department was asked to develop a 多样性计划 with an emphasis on concrete actions to advance the overarching goals. The four goal areas provide broad expectations with multiple pathways for achieving them, allowing flexibility in the design of action plans to fit departmental needs.
能力建设
Building individual and institutional capacity to engage the work of diversity is a primary focus of the strategic diversity framework. The Office of Inclusive Excellence carries out this focus in a number of ways:
- Providing professional development 研讨会
- Consulting with students, staff, and 教师 on diversity-related matters
- Curating an SPU diversity 时间轴 and increasing historical understanding about SPU's engagement with issues of diversity
- 处理 搜索委员会 to identify strategies for hiring that are informed by diversity, equity, and inclusion principles
- Establishing and maintaining a 教师 和工作人员 资源指南 that includes readings, 视频, and teaching tools to facilitate continued growth in the work of diversity