Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity

1. Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Pam Shockley-Zalabak, ChancellorDecember 7, 2007

2. Diversity Strategic Plan • Director and task force appointed • BRC recommendations as starting point • Comprehensive strategies developed • Integral to campus strategic plans • Shared definitions • Diversity • Inclusiveness • Cultural Competency

3. Diversity Strategic Plan • Diversity Foundations Group • Budget links to diversity plan • College-level diversity catalysts • Annual priority setting and evaluation

4. Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity • Kee Warner, Sociology • Contributes to leadership teams • Training search committees • Coordination with CU System • Leads plan implementation

5. Building Inclusiveness, the BIG Idea • Christina Jimenez, History • Dena Samuels, Women’s • and Ethnic Studies • Pilot two-hour workshop, • five scheduled for spring • 20-30 workshops FY 2009 • Climate surveys, exit interviews

6. Foster Diversity Within Faculty and Staff • Search committee training • Annual dean performance • evaluation • Emphasize diversity in Provost • recruitment • Active diversity efforts in faculty • searches • Opportunity hire funds to • promote faculty diversity

7. Diversity Within Faculty and Staff

8. Diversity Within Faculty and Staff

9. Diversity Within Faculty and Staff

10. Advance Understanding of Diversity, Inclusiveness • Women’s and Ethnic Studies • Knapsack Institute • Culturally Responsive • Teaching and Counseling • Symposium • White Privilege Conference • Freedom’s Song Dr. Dorothy Height

11. Advance Understanding of Diversity, Inclusiveness

12. Provide Inclusive Student Support • Student multicultural center for all • Director of Student Multicultural Affairs and Outreach • Retention and intervention • Engage families • “Academic Fitness” course for at-risk students

13. Reach Diverse Potential Students

14. Reach Diverse Potential Students

15. Reach Diverse Potential Students • Assistant Director Recruitment • Link with SMA and Outreach • Director Admissions Services • Web site redesign • Pre-Collegiate Program • Ridgeway • Eagle • La Junta • Increased marketing

16. Reach Diverse Potential Students

17. Reach Diverse Potential Students Recruitment to Enrollment, 2007

18. Reach Diverse Potential Students Undergraduate Student Diversity, Fall 2007

19. Reach Diverse Potential Students

20. Reach Diverse Potential Students

21. Reach Diverse Potential Students

22. Blue Ribbon Commission Update Bridge Academic Affairs and Student Affairs Bridge Academic and Student Affairs • Learning communities • Education beyond requirements • Inclusive student engagement • Link curricular and co-curricular

23. Expand, Diversify Community Engagement • Director of Inclusive Student and Community Engagement • Alumni relations • Campus facilities use

24. Strengthen Structural Supports • Create Human Resources Office • Create Compliance Office • Campus ombuds process • Reward diversity work in promotion, tenure • Diversity and inclusiveness in staff positions

25. UCCS: Coming of Age in the 21st Century