Developing Your Unit’s Diversity Plans - Sample Ideas 

Diversity plans presented by the 2006 academic unit plans included strategies such as:

• Attention to web sites and literature
• Improving the environment in the department
• Noting a need to provide professional development for faculty and staff
• Seeking external funding for additional scholarships
• Goals to hire more diverse faculty
• Assisting in more aggressive recruitment of underrepresented students, especially Youth Program alumni
• Adding diversity efforts as a factor in performance reviews.
• Multifaceted plans

More specifically for Student Affairs, address diversity by:

• Encouraging or orchestrating attendance at diversity programs
• Providing opportunities for dialog
• Partnering with other units on diversity programming
• Partnering with other universities
• Networking to increase diversity of hiring pools
• Hiring diverse students
• Ensuring professional development for staff, students, and faculty
• Integrating diversity language, examples, exercises, etc. in established Student Affairs activities
• Role models
• Inclusive committees

General diversity planning ideas for administrative units:

• Look for ways to enhance your unit's strategic plan by adding diversity components
• In your unit, look for opportunities to address
  • Processes
  • Procedures
  • Physical environment
  • Programs
  • Networking
  • Hiring pools
  • Services to students, faculty, and staff
  • Provide staff professional development
  • Partnerships
• Attend one nontraditional conference or meeting to establish new contacts
• Attend the holiday celebrations and develop some of your own (per Dr. Mroz's letter)

(Note: I will add to this list after we review the initial plans that are submitted.)

Sample Department/School/College Diversity Plan Chart

• Sample Chart (PDF)

Sample Data Collection Chart from Youth Programs

• Sample Data Collection Chart from Youth Programs (PDF)