Board of Trustees Meeting Packet

review and provides a connection to the university that is able to help navigate the social environment. 2. Institute cross-cultural communication program . A cross-cultural communication program will help to address campus climate, microaggressions, bias and will establish skills to have “hard conversations.” The program will provide faculty, staff, administrators and students with the skills necessary to have productive conversations identifying ways in which they agree and more importantly ways in which they disagree. 3. Provide faculty and staff development opportunities to address a variety of equity issues . Working with the Faculty Development office and HR this program will provide opportunities for an equity certification. Programming for Faculty will focus on equity in the curriculum, equity in pedagogy, and provide concrete skills to address an equitable and safe classroom. 4. Work across the university to provide equity in the curriculum. Collaboration with the faculty senate to ensure that students who graduate from CWU obtain the skills to work in a diverse world and to meet the needs identified by students to see themselves in the curriculum and learn a variety of “ways of knowing.”

Submitted:

Michelle DenBeste Provost

Delores (Kandee) Cleary Vice President for Inclusivity & Diversity

Rick Duffett Interim Vice President for Operations

Approved for Submittal to the Board:

James L. Gaudino President

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