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Tool 2 School and Business Unit Strategic Planning

Too often, efforts at diversity, inclusion, and belonging work lead to many well-intentioned but non-strategic and uncoordinated ad hoc efforts.The result is “diversity clutter”: a host of programs that do not add up to more than the sum of their parts. We should bring the tools of strategic planning to the pursuit of inclusive excellence. In addition, that work should draw on scholarly research and practitioner expertise to avoid reinvention of wheels and to meet a high standard of expertise.

College Diversity Report

Senior leaders are held accountable to ensure that the areas they oversee achieve the diversity, inclusion, and belonging goalsas defined — and included in this are strategic planning efforts such as multiyearplanning to create and populate pipelines.An annual “state of the department” staffdiversity report is shared with individual senior leaders by the dean, and a conversation about obstacles to staff diversity is part of the performance review process.

Takeaway

This practice is an example of elevating diversity, inclusion, and belongingwork to the same...

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