We are reviewing and updating the Cultural Pluralism 4050 policy to address the key concerns facing our students and employees (faculty, classified, and exempt).
Main Concepts
- Past feedback resulting in little or temporary change
- No accountability for leaders
- Perceptions of no change
- No institutional memory
- Lack of transparency
- Lack of feeling valued
- End B.C. shuffle (student and employee)
- Siloed departments/divisions/offices
Behaviors
- Student focused
- Onboarding for first generation students to know diverse resources on campus (ex. interfaith room, Multicultural Services -MCS, Ethnic Studies courses, etc.).
- Faculty
- Onboarding process that includes diversity training and resources.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocacy in Tenure Review Committee
- Classified
- Equity within work distribution, when on vacation or providing institutional support outside of job description.
- Exempt
- Making decisions that incorporate the feedback of diverse stakeholders.
- Transparency within decision making
Main Concepts
- Bias behaviors (micro-aggressions, fragility, and victim blaming)
- Recognizing behavior as a series of behaviors and not isolated individual incidents
- Retaliation for speaking up and having a counter idea
- Not being included or sought out to participate
Behavior
- Student
- Involvement within new building designs/construction
- Faculty
- Micro-aggressions to students
- Culturally relevant mentorship training for Tenure Review Committee Mentors
- Classified
- Exempt
- Administrators participating in both student and employee led campus events
Behaviors
- Student
- Interfaith room being advertised
- Involvement within new building designs/construction
- Faculty
- Micro-aggressions to students
- Culturally relevant mentorship training
- Diversity within hiring practices expanded
- Professional development opportunities are limited
- Classified
- Time participating within initiatives for the college not count as professional development for job related growth.
- Exempt
- Engaging employees
- Participating in campus events
Please complete our survey below to add to our list of concerns. The concerns for the survey be presented, discussed, and reviewed within the Council for Inclusion and Diversity. Together with our Shared Governance system (comprised of student, classified, and exempt councils) the changes and edits will be an open process.
Last Updated April 30, 2020
