California State University, San Marcos
PA-5: Diversity and Equity Coordination

The Office of Inclusive Excellence 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 CSUSM. 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.

The Inclusive Excellence Advisory Council (IEAC) is charged by the President, chaired by the CDO for Inclusive Excellence, and staffed by the Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE). The IEC makes recommendations to OIE to engage Work Groups and Task Forces, which meet more frequently and may include additional students, faculty, staff, administration or community members. The IEC will also hear the annual Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan (DISP) Action Steps progress updates from each Division of the University, and provide any relevant feedback or recommendations.

https://www.csusm.edu/equity/about/council.html

The Office of Inclusive Excellence 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. We hold anti-racist workshops for students, staff and faculty.

In addition, through Academic Senate we the following committee:
The Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism, and Social Justice Committee intentionally centers anti-racism and anti-colonialism in undertaking its duties and will view all issues in its scope through an intersectional lens. The Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism, and Social Justice Committee shall:  1) identify and address any issues related to discrimination, social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion for all students and Faculty and shall formulate, review, and recommend policies in these areas; 2) review CSU policy and reports dealing with these issues; 3) serve as a resource and point of expertise for administration, Faculty, staff, and students regarding these issues and shall promote collaboration amongst these groups in order to support and expand efforts in these areas; and 4) identify and recommend systematic and structural changes to the academic governance process to encourage participation by historically excluded groups, including but not limited to consulting, advising, and collaborating with other Academic Senate committees as necessary or appropriate on matters pertaining to these issues.
This committee has faculty, staff and students on it.

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.

All students have to take GEL 101 - Gen Ed Lower Division course. Within this course, all students have a training around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Anti-racism and cultural competence.

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.


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.

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