Foster an Inclusive and Supportive Campus for All
Creating a campus environment where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered is essential to Kâs mission. The College will focus on building strong partnerships to advance inclusive excellence work across campus with a shared vision. Our efforts will also focus on supporting students in balancing academic, financial, social, and health-related demands to ensure their overall well-being and success.
Goals
Create a vision and transparent structure(s) for coordinating inclusive excellence work occurring across campus.
- Create a shared vision.
- Ensure information about past and current work and campus climate is visible to all.
- Develop and implement plan for structuring and coordinating inclusive excellence work across campus.
Seek to understand and address impacts of non-inclusiveness in programs, spaces, processes and interactions.
- Increase awareness and provide strategies to address ways expectations contribute to well-being challenges.
- Provide resources to address impacts of non-inclusiveness.
Invest in people to further develop talents and skills to support attaining professional goals and continued learning.
- Foster a positive working environment and culture that provides a sense of belonging and community for all employees.
- Invest in people to develop talents and skills to allow them to undertake new responsibilities and/or attain career goals.
- Ensure that plan and non-plan employee benefits align with college values to the extent feasible.
- Implement salary plan as well as fair and competitive annual salary increases along with payment for additional work performed.
- Examine options to enhance work/life balance.
Build capacity across campus and with Kalamazoo partners for inclusive excellence work.
- Provide professional development opportunities for all campus constituencies.
- Modify faculty tenure/promotion processes to account for more inclusive framework for professional development.
- Illuminate and work to minimize invisible labor associated with inclusive excellent work.