Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364
Faculty Diversity Strategic Plan Worksheet
OBJECTIVES
STRATEGIES
ACTION ITEMS
INTENDED OUTCOMES
ACTUAL OUTCOMES
To strengthen the establishment of diversity as a core value at Queensborough Community College, the Chief Diversity Officer will work with
the President, Officers, faculty and staff to meet the following objectives:
What will help us achieve our objective?
Where do we want to go
Identify and duplicate where possible
Increase the
Expand diversity
diversity of faculty recruitment efforts successful efforts to increase pool of
and outreach to as diverse candidates / use of diverse
sources for permanent and sub hiring
many people as
Communicate best practices/ available
possible from
resources on hidden biases
diverse
backgrounds to
Establish / expand partnerships which
make them aware of are potential sourcing pipelines
available teaching
opportunities
Create an inclusive Create a supportive
environment /
environment for
culture
employee
development
Create and support opportunities that
facilitate dialogue and engagement
among faculty
Develop initiatives that expand and
support collaboration on diversity issues
between academic departments and
campus wide offices, i.e. student affairs
and academic affairs
Encourage faculty to develop diversity
initiatives and programs designed to
improve campus climate
Use CUNY Resources to learn about
issues impacting diverse groups
Establish / expand and promote
Further develop
faculty towards their mentoring opportunities for new diverse
maximum potential faculty
Provide / support and communicate
opportunities for faculty development
including high impact strategies for
engaging our diverse student
Assess current
environment
Support research and service projects for
historically underrepresented faculty that
develop their expertise, teaching skills
and academic leadership
Conduct exit interviews to identify issues
contributing to attrition
Conduct culture survey
Conduct focus groups
Incorporate and
Plan and execute diversity awareness
strengthen diversity events/activities
awareness
Increase awareness of diversity
achievements
How will we know when we have achieved
our objective?
Did we achieve our objective?
Increased representation of
underrepresented groups in applicant
pools and hires
Increased use of best practices in
search process
Identification of sources for diversity
recruitment
increased represenation of
women and minorities
addressing areas of
underutilization
increased awareness- # of
attendees at # sessions
Identified and used diversity
sources through the
development of partnerships
Development of Interest/support
group(s) by faculty members
The establishment of interest/
support groups
Increased opportunities to share
Speaker presented on ____
expertise and best practices related to to an audience of _____ on
diversity across the campus
____; Topics to include
Microagressions, Bullying in
the Workplace, etc.
Increased opportunities to share
expertise and best practices related to
diversity across the campus
Increase diversity awareness and
knowledge of campus community
increased number of faculty members
mentored
increased number of faculty members
participating in development
opportunities
Collaboration, presentation
and facilitation of diversity
events
Participation in diversity
events
Number of faculty members
mentored; no. of mentoring
opportunities
Number of faculty members/
no. of development
opportunities
Increase participation of faculty in the
no. of DPDF/FFP
university sponsored Diversity Project
participants/programs
Development Fund/Faculty Fellowship
Publication programs
# of interviews conducted and
actionable items identified
Develop and implement action plans
survey results and resulting
based on results of exit interviews,
action plan
surveys and focus groups
focus group results and
resulting action plan
Participant feedback on
Provide forum for diversity discussion measure of success
Communicate major milestones in
# of milestones achieved
diversity initiatives