Health & Wellness

Unit Lead – Jessica F. Doty

Goal 1: Units will build capacity for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion by focusing on employee skills and development.

Action 1

All employees will demonstrate increases in diversity, equity and inclusion skills and a capacity to better meet the needs of the university's diverse community of students, faculty and staff, specifically including the well-being of marginalized communities.

Status – Completed

Assessment

• Conducted training needs assessment with HW and linked results with findings from other assessments to begin developing a training curriculum in FA24.
• Participants in the HW training on evaluating your employees DEI performance plan goals reported: 
  • Higher confidence conducting evaluation conversations for DEI goals.
  • The desire for continued, longer, more in depth trainings related to DEI
• Conducting second bi-annual organizational assessment in September/October of 2024. 
  • Will assess perception of staff representation, inclusive campus relationships, skill development in out team, diverse feedback, understanding of privilege and oppression, and intent to reduce/eliminate oppressive/exclusive systems.