DIVERSITY BINGO
What have you taken away from this exercise?
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Diversity is the extent to
which an organization
has people from
diverse backgrounds
students, staff,
administrators and
faculty.
Inclusive institutions not
only engage diverse
groups but are
learning centered,
value different
perspectives,
incorporate the views
and needs of diverse
communities into the
way they do business,
and are diverse at all
levels.
WHAT IS YOUR DEPARTMENT’S DIVERSITY AND
INCLUSION STORY?
Create a department story that describes your current state of diversity and inclusion.
RE-CRAFTING THE STORY
Components
Set the Stage
Insightful description of
the current situation,
economics, success
and forces that drive
change
Enablers
How will your
departments succeed—
what is the pathway to
building an inclusive
culture
Measuring academic
excellence
Metrics
Components of your
diversity story
DISCUSSION
What influence does diversity have on your environment?
What diverse perspectives are within CWU that we can tap into and gain a broad and
realistic picture of the environment?
Reflecting on the CWU strategic plan and your department plan who is missing from
the table?
CREATING AN INCLUSIVE CULTURE
Shared assumptions and
beliefs and values that
distinguish a group and
shapes patterns of
behavior.
 Develops over time
 Passed down through
generations of leaders
Culture is sensed as soon
as you walk in the door.
 “how things are around here”
 Prevailing ideology
Culture is important
 Enables engagement
 Enables commitment
 Provides direction for values,
purpose and goals
 Defines and bolsters an
identity
 Creates a sense of community
LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION CULTURE
Artifacts
 Visible representation of culture through ritual, stories, dress, structure and
behavior
Espoused Values
 Strategies, goals, and operating principles that represent what the organization
stands for, and what it wants to accomplish
Basic Underlying Assumptions
 Unconscious, taken for granted beliefs, perceptions of feelings that guide values
and actions
REFLECTING ON THE CULTURE
What are the key
attributes of your
department
culture that
promote diversity
and inclusion?
How are the
attributes a
barrier to
diversity and
inclusion?
CULTIVATING CAPABILITY
As soon as Lisa began speaking to the student’s parent in Spanish, he became calm.
Higher education is like a foreign country for some and add to that the inability to
speak the language can be scary. If Lisa had not been able to speak in his native
language could we have served his daughter, yes we could of but he may not have
been as comfortable. It is important to try to represent the community we serve
and we serve a diverse student body with diverse families.
STRATEGY
Case statement for diversity and inclusion
Specific systems and processes in your department that you would like to link to
diversity and inclusion practices
Example: CWU Theme 2 illustrates diversity ideology---values that support that
ideology—practices that support academic excellence, retention and graduation---how are they supported.
CULTIVATING CAPABILITY
Investment in
diversity and
inclusion
Integrate
institutional
capability with
human capital
and
management
practices
Implement a
strategy
Organization
effectiveness
Academic
excellence,
increased
retention,
increased
graduation
ASSESSING
Diversity Scorecard
 System for measuring the impact of your initiatives in terms of how they contribute
to the strategic plan of the university
 Captures the appropriate indicators of your diversity performance and displays the
results in a comprehensive way
DIVERSITY SCORECARD
Strategic Goals
Improve a work environment
that rewards and
recognizes excellence,
attracts people from
underrepresented groups
Improve support to an
alliances with others whose
missions call for inclusion
Increase partnerships with
communities of color
Faculty, staff and students
Faculty, staff and
administrators
Works with other departments
in a meaningful way
Work with communities in your
regional area—build
relationships
WHAT DO WE MEASURE?
Leadership commitment
Workplace culture/climate
Classroom culture/climate
Co-curricular and curricular culture/climate
Policies and procedures
TELL YOUR STORY
Think strategically and link to student success
Provide an engaging narrative
Use data
Make comparisons
Highlight patterns
Tell your story over and over and make your diversity story known to the campus
community.