• Increase Spanish-language visibility and capabilities through signage, print materials, and requiring bilingual fluency and cultural competency for new hires in key areas that interact with students, potential students, and parents. • Add language to the Wildcat Way that speaks to our identity of cultural acceptance. Next Steps • Hire and support a full-time director of faculty development who can create and sustain a robust and meaningful faculty development program addressing intercultural competence. • Improve programming for deans, department chairs, and directors that addresses intercultural competence. • Ensure adjunct faculty, who often have the most contact with first-generation students are provided with professional development opportunities that they are able and invited to attend and are educated about intercultural competence. • Offer Intergroup Dialogue training to a broad portion of the university population and provide incentives to utilize this type of dialogue/facilitation in all facets of the university culture. Resources
Recommended Action
Expenses
Approx. Cost
HR Recruitment Specialist
Salary and benefits
$120,000
Faculty and Staff Development Director
Salary and benefits
$150,000
Spanish language acquisition by current employees Faculty and Staff Development Initiative
Training program, incentives, marketing Training, incentives
$50,000
$100,000
“Grow Your Own” Faculty Initiative
Support initiatives
$200,000/redirected funds
Mentoring Program for Faculty and Staff
WLUs for current faculty
Redirected funds
Resource Center
Brick and Mortar
TBD
CWU HSI Initiative 7.12.18
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