EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
activities, accessible resources, professional development as well as holding individuals accountable for fostering an environment where everyone feels responsible for advancing diversity and inclusion. These efforts have informed our early efforts with the diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic planning process, which we anticipate, as a living document, will evolve with greater input from all stakeholders.
NEW, PRIORITIZED COMMITMENTS Scholarship and Research
• Cluster hires: We will dedicate funding to make cluster hires that build greater scholarly capacity and expertise in areas such as (but not limited to): Black and African American history and culture, critical race studies and social justice and the political economic underpinnings and psychology of discrimination. • Strategic Opportunity Fund: This provost-supported fund will help departments create
opportunities to diversify their faculty. • Support for new and existing centers:
— We will play key roles in a university-wide committee of faculty and other stakeholders to study and recommend the creation of one or more cross-college research centers or institutes that are focused on issues germane to racism and social justice. The centers will leverage our strengths in interdisciplinary research in order to create knowledge as well as engage the community. — We will increase funding for existing centers/initiatives like Arts Greenhouse, the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies & the Economy (CAUSE) and the Data-Driven Diversity (D3) Lab, which bridge both community and institutional efforts to reach equity and build knowledge through partnerships and research. Education • Modular courses: We will join the university to develop a modular set of courses in cultural competencies, including topics related to bias, discrimination, anti-racism, anti-sexism and cultural sensitivity. • Integration across the curriculum: We also will integrate the above topics into a wide array of existing courses to provide faculty and students with multiple pathways to engage with content germane to these topics. Community • High school program: We will launch a new CMU Humanities and Arts pipeline program, housed in Dietrich College and the College of Fine Arts, that will identify students in Pittsburgh high schools, with an emphasis on underserved communities, who are interested in the humanities, social sciences or the arts. We will provide year-round programming aimed at preparing these students for college, scholarships for those admitted and general support throughout their experience. • Community activist fellows: We will invite activists from the Pittsburgh region to join the Dietrich College in short-term appointments as fellows to complement our curricular and co-curricular offerings. • Arts Greenhouse: We will expand funding for the Arts Greenhouse program, which works with Pittsburgh-area educators and students to demonstrate and highlight the many connections humanistic and creative-thinking structures have to a variety of creative forms, including creative writing, performance, visual arts and technological arts.
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DIETRICH COLLEGE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PLAN
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