students, faculty, and staff. Through programming and advocacy, the center works to build a nurturing campus community that understands and celebrates diversity, while facilitating
inclusion and supporting academic success and creative expression. • ASCWU: Equity and Community Affairs, Clubs and Organizations
• Center for Leadership and Community Engagement: Through purposeful programs and services, the CLCE promotes and facilitates leadership learning grounded in the following core curriculum: character and ethics of leadership, leadership skill development, servant leadership. • The College of the Sciences have professional development and outreach opportunities focused specifically on serving Latinx students: • ESCALA training through the iFINISH grant with YVC (certificate in Teaching at HSIs; part of YVC’s Title V grant) • Law and Justice: research stipends for faculty to participate in conferences, workshops, or trainings related to Latinx/Hispanic issues affecting students. Specifically, the stipends are for any faculty for travel connected to increasing enrollment; improving retention and completion of Hispanic and low-income students; and increasing transfer, enrollment, retention, and completion. • Mathematics: Grant-funded Spanish-language Math Circle in Ellensburg • The Wildcat ESL Program: A partnership between HR and the Office for International Studies and Programs that has existed since 2014 to provide non-native English speakers with language instruction to increase accessibility to CWU jobs (see Appendix G). • Intergroup Dialogue: “[A] proven, evidence-based, method for building understanding across differences, increasing understanding of inequalities and promoting collaborative approaches to campus and community change.” A pilot program that included 24 faculty, staff, students, and administrators from four divisions and 16 different departments took part in training this year. The feedback was overwhelming positive (see Appendix H). Challenges CWU does not have a systematic approach to supporting professional development: • Faculty Development: We are in the early stages of securing a physical space for a Faculty Development Center. We currently do not have a full-time dedicated director of Faculty Development (the faculty-lead has WLUs committed to this role). • Programming: While there is a lot of effective programming on campus dedicated to supporting diverse groups, offerings are sparse when the focus is specifically on Latinx students, faculty, and staff. • Search Processes: While the institution has a history of requiring search committees to employ and document recruitment activities, there are gaps. We need to develop strategies for both passive and active recruitment of diverse faculty and staff. The university needs to collect data on various points in the recruitment and hiring process such as: applicant pool, candidates who withdraw, candidates who decline offers of employment and the reasons, etc. • Retention Processes: While some departments actively support new faculty and staff, we have systematic gaps in mentoring programs. We need to develop strategies to retain diverse faculty and staff.
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