Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 61.40
Liaison Jennifer Bodine
Submission Date April 25, 2022

STARS v2.2

Weber State University
PA-5: Diversity and Equity Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.56 / 2.00 Bonnie Christiansen
Academic Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability Practices and Research Center
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Does the institution have a diversity and equity committee, office, and/or officer tasked by the administration or governing body to advise on and implement policies, programs, and trainings related to diversity, equity, inclusion and human rights?:
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:

Weber State University has an Assistant Vice President for Diversity, also known as the Chief Diversity Officer. Additionally, Weber has an institutional diversity task force and some division and college diversity task forces. The Chief Diversity Officer works in tandem with the Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Office and other task forces coordinating training, education, outreach and support at Weber State, well as to the larger Ogden community. Training and outreach focuses on students, faculty, staff and administration. Weber’s diversity representatives often partner with community programs and organizations, such as Ogden Diversity Commission, the Utah Governor’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Commission, and the Ogden-Weber Chamber of Commerce. The Chief Diversity Officer works to address issues prior to students’ arrival on campus in coordination across campus.
WSU also has an Office of Access and Diversity that works to increase higher education access, persistence, and graduation rates for underrepresented students. This office oversees outreach programs like TRIO and Gear Up and also oversees campus programs like the Peer Mentor Program and the LGBT Resource Center.
Website: https://www.weber.edu/diversity/diversity-board.html


Estimated proportion of students that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
All

Estimated proportion of academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Some

Estimated proportion of non-academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Some

A brief description of the institution’s cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:

General Education at Weber State University supports the development of cultural competencies through designated Diversity (DV) courses, which prepare students to recognize a plurality of perspectives, including their own, to function successfully in a global society. This mission is achieved using the following: a student who successfully completes a General Education Diversity course will:
 describe his/her own perspective as one among many,
 identify values and biases that inform the perspectives of oneself and others,
 recognize and articulate the rights, perspectives, and experiences of others.
DV is a graduation requirement, thus, 100% of students participate in some cultural competence training and/or workshops.

All faculty, staff and administrators complete diversity training or updates through Coaching Certification, Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Training, Diversity workshops, speakers and panelists.

Examples of annual Conferences include the Diversity Conference, Hispanic Heritage keynote, MLK keynote, Black History Month keynote, Women’s History Month keynote, Holocaust Remembrance Commemoration keynote, Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage keynote, and Native Symposium, which are open and available to all students, faculty, staff and community.
Starting in Fall of 2020 the Diversity Office highly encouraged students, faculty and staff to participate in the YWCA 21-Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge, and continues to promote the program.
Starting in January 2022 the Diversity Committee rolled out the how to be an anti-racist program, which is serving student affairs serving as the pilot.
Additionally there are trainings thought the LGBTQ Resource Center on allyship, transgender and pronoun trainings.


Website URL where information about the institution’s diversity and equity office or trainings is available:
https://www.weber.edu/diversity/diversity-board.html

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