Strategic Plan

1. Intentional Anti-Racist Curriculum / Pedagogy

• Global academic focus with equal emphasis on Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Indigenous people.
• Support for racial issues and diversity courses in General Education
• CARE Understanding Racism Workshops available to campus and greater community

2. Intentional & Accountable Anti-Racist Community Engagement

• Campus and community anti-racist leadership council
• More student & community members of underrepresented and historically underserved groups involved in leadership roles
• CARE + Anti-Racist efforts + President’s Council = ONE EFFORT
• Regular meetings with people from underrepresented and historically underserved groups in community and advisory capacity for the University
• University & Community united in Anti-Racism efforts
• Working groups to address specific problem areas
• More people from underrepresented and historically underserved communities active in local school districts

3. Affirmative Action Practices

• Effective and supportive Affirmative Action office
• Every hiring committee trained and has a significant number of people from underrepresented and historically underserved groups participating
• University effort to have a critical mass of people from underrepresented and historically underserved groups in all colleges, units and departments.

4. Anti-Racist Accountability

• The University adopts the CARE mission
• The University implement the mission statement
• Official status for faculty of color / students of color caucus, Racial Issues Colloquium and formal responsibility for decision input
• SCSU civic engagement, commitments, responsive/accountable to the communities of underrepresented and historically underserved groups
• Campus united against racism backlash and resistance

5. Embedded and Effective CARE team

• CARE initiative is fully financially supported and has a core membership of representative from across the campus
• Respectful, accountable interactions between CARE team members
• Effective and valued CARE leadership team
• CARE strategic plan + University strategic plan = ONE PLAN
• Student Government, Faculty Senate and other campus units involved with CARE team and implementing goals

6. Supportive Environment for Students of Color

• SCSU recruiting underrepresented and historically underserved students from district 742
• Underrepresented and historically underserved students graduating at the same rate as white students
• Enrollment of underrepresented and underserved students increase to 15%
• Increased satisfaction of underrepresented and historically underserved students demonstrated by increased applications from underrepresented and historically underserved students.

7. Supportive Environment for Employees of Color

• New employees of underrepresented and historically underserved groups are well supported and retained
• Develop a system that promotes anti-racism work in Probation, Evaluation, Promotion and Tenure process
• Increased satisfaction of underrepresented and historically underserved people demonstrated by increased applications from underrepresented and historically underserved people

8. No Overt Racism

• No racist remarks made
• No American Indian mascots seen

9. Anti-Racist Community Building

• Children of color playing on the banks of the Mississippi
• Observed positive interaction across Color lines
• Offices, Services where we see diverse people