Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.05
Liaison Juliana Goodlaw-Morris
Submission Date June 30, 2017
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STARS v2.1

California State University, San Marcos
PA-4: Diversity and Equity Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Ariel Stevenson
Diversity Coordinator
Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Educational Equity
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Does the institution have a diversity and equity committee, office, and/or officer tasked to advise on and implement policies, programs, and trainings related to diversity, equity, inclusion and human rights on campus?:
Yes

Does the committee, office and/or officer focus on students, employees, or both?:
Both students and employees

A brief description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer, including purview and activities:

The Office of Diversity, Educational Equity and Inclusion and Ombud Services (ODEEIO) oversees the diversity strategic plan; gives advice and counsel to the university on diversity issues; implements training on diversity, develops policies and procedures that promote diversity goals; manages the Ombud Services office; and supports the faculty staff associations at CSU-San Marcos. The overall goal of the office is to achieve educational equity across the university; diversify faculty, staff and students; assist in creating a welcoming and inclusive campus environment; and develop all of our intercultural competencies to be increasingly effective in a diverse and global world.


Estimated proportion of students that has participated in cultural competence trainings and activities (All, Most, Some, or None):
Some

Estimated proportion of staff (including administrators) that has participated in cultural competence trainings and activities (All, Most, Some, or None):
Some

Estimated proportion of faculty that has participated in cultural competence trainings and activities (All, Most, Some, or None):
Some

A brief description of the institution’s cultural competence trainings and activities for each of the groups identified above:

The Office of Diversity offers workshops on a regular basis, in the last year presentations were given to the Office of Advancement, the Presidents Executive Council, the FSA leadership conference, and workshops open to the campus community on topics including intercultural competence, cultural appropriation, bias, defining diversity, understanding racism, and discrimination.

The Faculty Staff Leadership Conference provides workshops and keynote speakers on diversity and inclusion. Also, through the CSU statewide system training is available online in a number of diversity, inclusion and multicultural topics.

Training on diversity is required in some instances, like speech pathology and nursing majors, and optional diversity training and workshops are made available for all campus members.

Required training and activities includes:

o Search committee training. All committee members for senior administrative
searches must attend live training on diversity, bias and best practices for diversity recruitment and hiring. For faculty positions the same training is required of the committee chair and the diversity advocate, and recommended for all members.
o Faculty and staff orientation require a module on diversity and inclusion
o Participants in the CSUSM Leadership Academy must attend a diversity and inclusion workshop.
o The CSUSM Campus Connect program has a diversity module for its participants
o Athletics Faculty and Staff have a required workshop hosted by the Office of Diversity on understanding “otherness and identity, as well as distribute a primer on micro aggressions”.
o Staff and Faculty in Health and Counseling Services attend a required workshop on diversity and cultural competence.
o New Fall 2016, we are implementing required diversity training online for staff, pursuant to our new diversity strategic plan.

Optional training topics offered include, but are not limited to:

o Safe Zone Training – developing allies for the GLBTQ community.
o Safe Area Dreamer/AB 540 Training – developing allies for undocumented students.
o Diversity and curriculum workshops are offered through the faculty learning center.
o Diversity workshops are offered to faculty through the Faculty Diversity Fellow and the Diversity and Multicultural Learning Community. The learning community offers a diversity workshop at the CSUSM faculty conference held each year.

Another website for information: http://www.csusm.edu/fc/resources-funding/difficultdialogues/index.html


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