Diversity Strategic Plan Virginia Tech
Contents Welcome Mission and Vision Goals and Tasks Climate and Status Data VT Core Values Print
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Goals Summary
Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
Goal 4
Goal 5

Goal Goal 4

 Design, develop, and implement a comprehensive system of responsibility, accountability, and recognition for increasing campus diversity, improving campus climate, and advancing the knowledge base for creating and sustaining a culturally diverse community of learners, teachers, researchers, and workers.

Task 4a:

 Update and institutionalize an initial diversity assessment and establish a continuous improvement process, characterized by periodic faculty, staff, and student surveys; diversity programs inventories; and other assessments that provide information on areas needing improvement and areas of success.

Measure:

 Publication and dissemination of assessment and inventory results and establishment of committees and task forces to design and recommend improvement strategies and identification of successful approaches that should be sustained.

Assigned to:
  1. Vice President for Multicultural Affairs
  2. Associate Provost for Academic Administration

Timeline:

 April 2000 and ongoing

Task 4b:

 Review and update the University Diversity Strategic Plan as a tool to monitor goal-achievement in the area of diversity at all levels of the university, consistent with the direction set by the Academic Agenda and as a guide for identifying resources to support and sustain diversity initiatives.

Measure:

 Publication and dissemination of Updated Diversity Strategic Plan, with revised and/or new goals or tasks that extend the plan two additional years (2004, 2005).

Assigned to:

 Vice President for Multicultural Affairs

Timeline:

 Versions: draft, September 2003; final, December 2003

Task 4c:

 Create a task force to review diversity and multicultural aspects of faculty roles and rewards, emphasizing areas such as evolving definitions of scholarship, the teaching evaluation process, differentiated staffing expectations, and the relationship of departmental expectations to college and university work.

Measure:

 Incorporate recommendations of task force to address issues of current concern and planning of future development.

Assigned to:
  1. Senior Vice President and Provost
  2. Vice President for Multicultural Affairs
  3. College Deans

Timeline:

 Task Force recommendations by September 2001; implementation plan to follow in AY 2001-2002

Goals Summary | Goal 1 | Goal 2 | Goal 3 | Goal 4 | Goal 5

Contents | Welcome | Mission and Vision | Goals and Tasks | Climate and Status Data | VT Core Values | Print

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