Academic Affairs Diversity Plan
The Indiana University Diversity Portfolio Project enabled faculty and staff from across campuses to reflect and evaluate their diversity efforts, review their campus goals, engage a variety of constituents from their campus in the review process, particularly senior leadership, and move beyond traditional approaches to evaluation and use a self-study and peer review process to evaluate diversity efforts. The information gleaned from the project provided campus representatives with a better sense of the current state of diversity across the university and direction toward a more comprehensive and intentional plan to gauge institutional progress. The diversity portfolio assessment was undertaken in 2006 as part of IU's Enhancing Minority Attainment (EMA) program.
There were four dimensions of diversity employed in the EMA process; those dimensions, listed below, provided campuses with a common template for examining diversity across the university. The four dimensions are:
- Institutional Leadership and Commitment - The clarity of expectations, investment of human and fiscal resources and accountability as demonstrated through the words and actions of campus leadership at all levels.
- Curricular and Co-curricular transformation - The extent to which principles of multi-culturalism, pluralism, equity and diversity are currently incorporated into the curriculum and co-curriculum, as well as ongoing efforts to further infuse them into the curriculum and co-curriculum.
- Campus Climate - The degree to which the events, messages, symbols, values, etc., of the campus make it a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, faculty, staff, and members of the broader community.
- Representational Diversity - The degree to which the campus attracts, retains and develops students, faculty, and staff of color, commensurate with the campus mission and service region.
