Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 45.51
Liaison Lawrence Brien
Submission Date Feb. 29, 2024

STARS v2.2

State University of New York at Brockport
PA-6: Assessing Diversity and Equity

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Marcie Desrochers
Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychology
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Has the institution engaged in a structured assessment process during the previous three years to improve diversity, equity and inclusion on campus?:
Yes

A brief description of the assessment process and the framework, scorecard(s) and/or tool(s) used:
SUNY Brockport’s five-year Strategic Plan for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion outlines the University’s targeted goals for the next five years in regards to reducing barriers to access, inquiry, engagement, and completion for all students as well as increasing social equity for all members of the campus community. The plan aligns with the University’s core values: Community, Engagement, Excellence, and Transformation, which are part of the University’s Strategic Plan, “Building a Better Brockport.”

EDI Strategic Plan Goals
SUNY Brockport has long held a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Below are the goals of our current EDI Strategic Plan (2016-2021). Some progress has been made, but not as swiftly as any of us would like. The University remains committed to these goals and will enhance our efforts to achieve them.

GOAL 1
Achieve a balance of representation in faculty and staff in line with student population, and national, state, and regional demographics; and maintain a commitment to retention and promotion of minority and underrepresented faculty and staff.

GOAL 2
Achieve a balance of representation in student body population in line with state demographics; and maintain a commitment to retention, completion, and academic success of minority and underrepresented students.

GOAL 3
Ensure that curriculum, programming, and/or trainings educate all incoming students, faculty, and staff and are available to current students, faculty, and staff in issues of social equity and the ability to speak to each other across differences as part of the University’s commitment to inclusive community, diverse engagement, academic excellence, and self-transformation.

GOAL 4
Continue to build and maintain an inclusive and positive campus climate for every member in which to foster internal and external community building on the campus, local, regional, and international levels in which diversity is valued and inclusion and equity are shared.

The Brockport Presidential Campus Climate Committee (PCCC) has been working diligently to assess the atmosphere on campus among students, staff, and faculty.

In the Fall of 2022, the committee led the efforts to disseminate a campus-wide survey from the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) to help assess the climate on both the SUNY Brockport main campus as well as Brockport Downtown. While the full report has been slow in coming, we have received some preliminary data analyzed by Institutional Research to share with the Brockport community. The information on this page is a portion of the aggregated data we’ve received so far. M

Does the assessment process address campus climate by engaging stakeholders to assess the attitudes, perceptions and behaviors of employees and students, including the experiences of underrepresented groups?:
Yes

Does the assessment process address student outcomes related to diversity, equity and success?:
Yes

Does the assessment process address employee outcomes related to diversity and equity?:
Yes

A brief description of the most recent assessment findings and how the results are used in shaping policy, programs, and initiatives:
: Sense of belonging and campus climate could be improved. Currently forums are taking place with faculty, staff, students, and administrators to gather more information. One of the diversity fellows is also planning to conduct a quantitative survey, follow-up study with focus-groups, and then implement an initiative to improve the campus climate.

Are the results of the most recent structured diversity and equity assessment shared with the campus community?:
Yes

A brief description of how the assessment results are shared with the campus community:
A the most recent assessment findings are shared with the campus community through the office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion located here:

https://www2.brockport.edu/about/diversity/campus-climate-survey-results/

Are the results (or a summary of the results) of the most recent structured diversity and equity assessment publicly posted?:
Yes

The diversity and equity assessment report or summary (upload):
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Website URL where the diversity and equity assessment report or summary is publicly posted:

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Website URL where information about the institution’s diversity and equity assessment efforts is available:
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