Achieving Campus Diversity:
The University of Central Florida Model
Association of Community College Trustees
presented by
Valarie Greene King, Ph.D., Director
Office of Diversity Initiatives
Motto: “Diversity Includes All of Us”
www.diversity.ucf.edu
Purpose
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• Share UCF strategic planning documents and processes
that include a focus on diversity.
• Share and examine some of UCF’s best practices in
achieving diversity and inclusion.
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Definition of Diversity
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• Diversity:
• People:
• Diversity Wheel
• Process:
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Policies
Procedures
Programs
Priorities
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Diversity Plan
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Structure and complexity (Areas of focus-Framework)
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Structure
Recruitment and Retention
Campus Climate
Education and Scholarship
Outreach and Engagement
What do you look for in a diversity plan?
• Yellow Handout
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Diversity Plan
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• How do you assess your plan?
• University assessment process and ODI review
• How is the diversity plan tied to the budget?
• Budget is tied to priorities and priorities are funded
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Diversity and Inclusion
Change Process
Establishing a Sense of Urgency
Forming a Powerful Guiding Coalition
Creating a Vision
Communicating the Vision
Empowering Others to Act on the Vision
Planning for and Creating Short-Term Wins
Consolidating Improvements and Producing More Change
Institutionalizing New Approaches
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Framework for Our Work
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• What can get in the way?
• Me, you and everyone else…
• The lack of common goals…
• The lack of a common body of knowledge…
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Framework for Our Work
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• What else can get in the way?
• The “oversensitive theory…”
• The “can’t we all just get along theory…”
• The “how long do we have to talk about history
theory…”
• The “I just don’t see differences theory…”
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Common Body of Knowledge
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Diversity Wheel: Beyond Race and Gender
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Diversity Wheel
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• The center of the wheel represents internal dimensions that are usually
most permanent or visible.
• The outside of the wheel represents dimensions that are acquired and
change over the course of a lifetime.
• The combinations of all of these dimensions influence our values,
beliefs, behaviors, experiences and expectations and make us all
unique as individuals.
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Common Body of Knowledge
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Definitions: Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, Stereotypes, Bias,
Prejudice, Cultural Competency, Power, Privilege, Discrimination,
Generalizations, Social Justice, etc…
Goals:
Strategies:
Activities:
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Strategic Planning
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Diversity Framework: Areas of Focus
• Organizational Structures:
• People, their functional roles, processes, programs, and measures
of accountability and recognition that clearly show the
commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Focus on assessing patterns and relationship dynamics between
and among diverse individuals and groups.
• Facilitate the construction of networks to ensure that issues of
diversity and inclusions are firmly ensconced within operational
protocols.
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Organizational Structures
Examples
• Office of Diversity Initiatives, Disability Student
Services, Veteran’s Academic Resource Center…
• Provost’s Diversity Enhancement Program
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• Strategic Plan that includes Diversity Framework
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Strategic Planning
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Diversity Framework: Areas of Focus
• Recruitment and Retention
• Policies, programs, and initiatives to increase the number of
individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups who attend,
work, collaborate, partner, and support, the university as students,
faculty, staff, administrators, contractors, suppliers, community
partners, stakeholders…
• Policies, programs, and initiatives to nurture and preserve diversity
throughout the university community.
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Recruitment and Retention
Examples
• Provost’s Diversity Enhancement Program
• Leadership Enhancement Program
• LEGACY Leadership and Mentoring Program
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Strategic Planning
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Diversity Framework: Areas of Focus
• Campus Climate
• Atmosphere and structures that contribute to attitudes and
behaviors that foster a campus environment in which
individuals feel personally safe, listened to, respected,
valued, and treated fairly and equitably.
• Quality of personal and professional interactions
demonstrated by leaders and members of the university
community.
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Campus Climate
Examples
Affinity Groups
Allies: LGBT Training and Support Systems
Staff Council
Leadership Enhancement Program for Faculty and Staff
Inclusive Communication Guide and Workshop
Diversity Week
• Diversity Week Posters
• Diversity Breakfast Program
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Strategic Planning
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Diversity Framework: Areas of Focus
• Education and Scholarship : The heart of the university!
• Formal and informal curricula, research initiatives, and creative
endeavors that are transformed to embrace diversity, inclusion, and
social justice.
• Knowledge, information, and skills that systematically examine,
critically analyze, and thoughtfully create projects and programs
that increase our understanding of and appreciation for differences
while promoting cultural competency.
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Education and Scholarship
Examples
Diversity Education and Training (Workshops and Seminars)
Cultural Competency Education
Academic and Student Support Consultations
Summer Faculty Development Conference: Diversity Track
Support for faculty/students/others writing grant proposals and
engaging in diversity related research
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Strategic Planning
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Diversity Framework: Areas of Focus
• Outreach and Engagement
• Practices and initiatives that link meaningful internal
collaborations with external partners in support of the
university’s commitment to teaching, research, service,
social justice, and cultural competency.
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Outreach and Engagement
Examples
• Community Partnerships
• Diversity Week
• Allies
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Forum
• Leadership Institute
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Parting Message
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You cannot teach what you do not
know and you cannot lead where you
will not go.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Contact Information
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Dr. Valarie Greene King, Director
valarie.king@ucf.edu
Office of Diversity Initiatives
P. O. Box 160031
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida 32816-0031
Phone: 407-823-6479
• Fax: 407-823-6480
www.diversity.ucf.edu
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