Recommendation 2: All academic units must review their curricula and consider how they might incorporate diversity in an appropriate, meaningful fashion. Rationale: For diversity and inclusion to occupy a central role in the Trinity educational experience, all departments and interdisciplinary programs must contribute in a meaningful way to the development of an inclusive curriculum that equitably broadens the scope to diverse and underrepresented groups and seeks to challenge bias, practices, and traditional approaches for instruction. Stakeholders: VPAA, Faculty, Students Recommended Actions
Performance Indicators
Responsible Parties
The University Curriculum Council (UCC) will develop a process to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives into the FYE curriculum.
Develop and present a report to the faculty assembly.
Chair of the University Curriculum Council, Vice President for Academic Affairs, First Year Experience Director and Committee
Encourage the selection and choice of speakers with racially, ethnically, diverse religious orientations, and/or LGBTQI as well as other underrepresented groups perspectives in all speaker series.
There will be a 15% increase in the number and type of diverse speakers featured on campus
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs: Budget and Research, Department Chairs, Interdisciplinary Directors, Chair of LVSC, Lennox Committee, Humanities Collective, Stieren Series, and other lecture series leadership units
Require academic departments to incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion criteria into the annual performance review rubrics as well as departmental promotion and tenure criteria.
Revision of all department performance review rubrics and promotion and tenure criteria
Department Chairs, Chair of the University Curriculum Council, Vice President for Academic Affairs
The UCC, in collaboration with academic departments and programs, will develop a strategy to foster greater
UCC submits proposal to Faculty Assembly
Chair of the University Curriculum Council Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs:
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