Diversity Action Plan for Brown University

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Diversity Action Plan for Brown University

• Strategic Indicators and Measurements

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Plan Overview

• Diversity and academic excellence
• Redress historical patterns of exclusion
• Balance desire to achieve great diversity in
  ideas, opinions and perspectives
• Promote strong leadership and accountability

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Plan Focus

• Recruitment
• Retention
• Management
• Assessment

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Monitoring Progress

• Progress towards creating more diverse
  representation among faculty and student bodies
• Assessing equity in the academic experiences of
  undergraduates across diverse groups
• Monitoring quality of campus experiences across
  various diversity categories

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Outcome Faculty diversity will increase.
Faculty Demographics, 2001-2002 2008-2009
Faculty Composition by Race Group, 2001-2002
2008-2009
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Outcome Faculty diversity will increase.
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Outcome Diversity will increase across student
populations.
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Outcome Student Diversity at Brown will remain
comparable to our peer institutions.
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Staff Percentages of Women and Minorities
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Goal Student perception of diversity on campus
will be favorable over time
Outcome Brown seniors report high levels of
satisfaction with diversity and community on
campus as measured by relevant items on the
Senior Survey.
URM Under-represented minority includes African
American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native
American. ANOVA, plt.05 Tukey post-hoc
comparisons of race/ethnic groups significant
differences in satisfaction ratings are indicated.
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Goal Students will have the opportunity at
Brown to interact with a diverse study body.
As an undergraduate, did you ever seriously
question or rethink your beliefs or values in any
of the following areas? You need not have changed
your beliefs or values in order to answer "yes"
to having questioned them in a fundamental way.
Please indicate the extent to which you had
interaction with students from each of the
following groups when you were in college.
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Where Are We

• Keeping pace with our goals
• Progress with faculty diversity
• Progress with student diversity
• Most success indicators consistent across groups
• Some data to suggest that climate is positive and
  that students are engaging the diversity..but
  work yet to be done