Diversity Action Plan

2019-2020

Goal 1 | Build a Supportive Culture and Community

Strategies

• Restructure Council on Diversity and Inclusion to include more student representation. 
• Identify student leadership opportunities.  
• Establish funding and criteria to support diversity-related programming and research activities for faculty, student organizations, departments, research centers, and institutes.
• Continue to implement and monitor events policy. 
• Conduct focus groups with staff to better understand concerns derived from the climate survey. 
• Implement a diversity and inclusion recognition initiative.    
• Respond to focus group findings and climate survey results by developing educational programs and initiatives focused on diversity and inclusion for students, faculty, and staff. 
  • Implement an annual school-wide diversity symposium.
  • Establish a Diverse Perspectives in International Affairs Series.
• Collect and review data from course evaluations. 

Goal 2 | Diversify Our Demographics

Strategies 

• Engage in community outreach to ethnically and socioeconomically diverse K-12 schools. 
• Continue partnership with the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) and host Public Service Weekend (PSW) and International Affairs Summer Immersion Program for underrepresented undergraduate students. 
  • Establish fellowships for participants completing these programs and enrolling at the Elliott School. 
• Explore opportunities for partnership with the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs and Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship Programs.
• Establish partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). 
• Enhance the faculty and staff search process. 
  • Provide training to assist hiring managers and search committee chairs in the recruitment and selection process.     
  • Develop guidance to integrate diversity and inclusion into position descriptions and the interview process. 

Goal 3 | Expand Our Resource Base to Support Our Diversity and Inclusion Plan

Strategies

• Identify resources needed to support and actualize the short and long term diversity planning efforts of the school.
• Identify and leverage existing resources at the University. 
• Hire Diversity Program Manager. 

Goal 4 | Develop a Communications Plan to Reflect the Elliott School's Ongoing Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Strategies

• Enhance the school’s diversity website.
• Establish a newsletter that highlights accomplishments and members of our diverse community.