Initiative 1.1: Recruit and retain diverse students, staff, and faculty — understanding what the diverse perspective can bring to the curriculum, student experience, and the workplace
Actions
- Support extended search periods to enable widest recruitment for all open staff and faculty positions
- Require implicit bias training for all search committee members
- Develop recruitment plans that specifically aim to increase student diversity
Initiative 1.2: Implement policies and processes that encourage differing perspectives and voices among all categories and ranks of employees to be heard, respected, and valued
Actions
- Allow staff and career-line faculty to participate in academic unit meetings and with relevant curricular and administrative decisions
- Include relevant staff positions in more unit leadership structures, forums, and decision-making wherever possible
Initiative 1.3: Expand the conversations and learning around color-conscious casting, implicit bias, inclusive communications/marketing, and micro-aggressions
Actions
- Create Ad-hoc CFA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, charged with developing initiatives to support equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts in alignment with University objectives
- Provide committee members equity, diversity, and inclusion training opportunities and extend these to the CFA community
- Establish equity, diversity, and inclusion dialogue forums
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- Join the Department of Theatre in establishing an endowed scholarship to benefit underrepresented students
- "Diversity in the Workplace" discussion features Dance alum Natosha Washington
- Guest Artist Melanie George premieres work at Performing Dance Company fall concert
- Director Alexandra Harbold and Playwright Rachel Bublitz on Department of Theatre’s "The Night Witches"
- School of Music solicits proposals focusing on student success, student wellness, and social justice
- Calling students committed to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
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- School of Dance examines inequity in “Dancing Around Race: Whiteness in Higher Education”
- Arts Education Research Symposium 2020 focuses on inclusion through the arts