Action

Goal #1

Create an institutional environment, curricula and scholarly contributions that enhance learning about diversity, respect for diversity, and equality

March 25, 2003

Action	Dept./Unit/Prog. Responsible for Implementation & Assessment	Outcome Measures	Outcome Measures Time-frame	Dept./Unit/Prog. Responsible for reviewing data	Rationale for Task	Resources Needed
1) Create, support and enhance a diverse environment
a) Provide development activities that meet the diversity needs of staff	Human Resources, DAC, CAE	Number of activities offered; Number of attendees; Satisfactory evaluations	Annually	DAC, HR, CAE	These efforts provide training and activities that should lead to more inclusivity. This is consistent with PSUs mission toward inclusivity
b) Provide diversity development activities that meet the needs of students	DAC, VPSA, MCC ASPSU	Number of activities offered; Number of attendees; Satisfactory evaluations	Annually	DAC, VPSA, MCC ASPSU	These efforts will lead to greater inclusivity. This is consistent with PSUs mission toward inclusivity
c) Provide regular forum(s) for faculty and staff from underrepresented groups	DAC, CAE, President, Relevant Units	Number of forum(s), Number of attendees, Satisfactory evaluations	Quarterly	DAC, CAE	This activity will nurture and support community to create inclusivity
d) Provide a forum for LGBT faculty and staff to connect.	Women's Resource Center, Women's Commission, LGBT & Friends, Sexual Diversity Taskforce	Number of forum(s), Number of attendees, Satisfactory evaluations	Quarterly	Women's Resource Center, Women's Commission, LGBT & Friends, Sexual Diversity Taskforce	This activity will nurture and support community to create inclusivity
e) Provide professional assistance for PSU groups that serve underrepresented and diverse populations	OAA, Affirmative Action, Multicultural Center	Assistance provided	Annually	OAA, DAC, and appropriate School or College	Minimize issues that arise in these areas
f) Provide a forum for disabled faculty, staff and students to connect	Disability Resource Center, Multicultural Affairs, DAC	Number of forum(s), Number of attendees, Satisfactory evaluations	Quarterly	Disability Resource Center, Multicultural affairs, DAC	These activities will provide support for those who need and provide these services
g) Recommend that the President's Assessment Initiative assess "inclusive" actions within the responsibilities of faculty, staff, Chair/Directors and deans	Assessment Resource Network	Pre/Post institutional assessment of inclusivity; Asset map of department activities addressing inclusivity. Provide evidence of use	Annually	OIRP, DAC/CAE subcommittee	Need to assess what we are doing to give us feedback on how effective we are and determine if we are making a difference
h) Provide a "focus on diversity series" for faculty, staff and administrators	CAE, Experts on- campus and off- campus	Number of attendees; Number of workshops held; Workshop evaluation; Involvement of internal and external experts	Annually	CAE	Faculty development for curriculum revision
i) Provide unit specific professional assistance for faculty development and course diversity integration	CAE, Deans, Coordinators, Chairs, & Directors	Make in the unit	Annually	Individual units	Specific units may need additional support to infuse diversity
j) Identify and recruit expertise from within the campus to assist with development activities	DAC will create a communication process to identify and recruit expertise related to diversity (Faculty-in-Residence for Diversity, Department Diversity Liaisons)	Number of individuals recruited; Completion of "yellow pages"	Annually	DAC, graduate student	To expand the pool of experts to provide help with the infusion of diversity
k) Create "yellow pages" (catalogue) that identifies PSU resources and community resources	OAA, CAE	Completion of "yellow pages"	Annually	DAC, graduate student	To expand the pool of experts to provide help with the infusion of diversity
l) Include "diversity" in all Presidential initiatives	Vice Provost for Campus Initiatives	Inclusion	Annually	Vice Provost for Campus Initiatives	To insure that diversity is essential to Presidential campus initiatives (student advising, assessment & internationalization)
m) Include "diversity outcomes" in the Undergraduate benchmarks	Vice Provost for Curriculum & Undergraduate Studies and Vice Provost for Campus Initiatives	Graduating students demonstrated in the benchmarks	Annually	Individual units, CAE	To ensure that diversity systemically occurs throughout the curriculum
2) Allocate funds to support inquiry on issues related to diversity
a) Provide annual mini-grants to faculty who are conducting scholarships that focus on diversity	CAE, DAC	Number of proposals submitted; Number of grants funded; Amount of funding	Annually	DAC	To provide funds to encourage and support the scholarship of diversity
b) Provide annual mini-grants to student groups who make diversity visible across campus	DAC, CAE, Student Affairs, Individual Departments and Units (Deans, Chairs)	Number of proposals submitted; Number of grants funded; Amount of funding	Annually	DAC, Student Affairs	To encourage students and student groups to work together to raise the visibility of diversity across campus
c) Institutionalize funds for faculty and student mini-grants	DAC, President, OAA	Funds, Commitment from President's Office, OAA, Deans	Bi-Annually	DAC	These will institutionalize diversity efforts on campus. When the funds are part of the general budget, this communicates on-going commitment
3) Expand, strengthen and integrate content about diverse populations into courses and programs
a) Recruit a Chair/Director for Chicano/Latino Studies	Dean of CLAS, Provost	Funds, Commitment from President's Office, OAA, Dean of CLAS-- Chair secured	Fall 2004	Provost, Dean of CLAS, DAC	This is a unit with increasing student population and need across the region. This is also a national priority. An appropriate chair is needed. The program was founded with a full professor chair.
b) Develop: 1.) Asian American Studies Program 2.) Native American Studies Program 3.) Disability Studies Program	DAC, CLAS Dean, OAA	Funds, Commitment from President's Office, OAA, Dean of CLAS-- Chair secured	Fall 2004	DAC, CAE, OAA	Ethnic studies (Chicano/Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies), and Disability Studies are nationally established interdisciplinary areas of scholarship, and they have an inescapable critical role in both diversity curriculum development and minority student retention
c) Infuse diversity into syllabi and course content (across the curriculum)	CAE, OAA	Content and syllabi assessed	Annually	DAC, Deans	Diversity across the curriculum will ensure that students will see the relationship between diversity and content. This will lead to continual curricula renewal.