Maintain an intellectual, cultural, and social environment that respects human dignity and equity where all community members feel welcomed and mutually respected and enjoy prospects for success. Pursue strategic initiatives that not only strengthen equity for all students, faculty and staff through campus-wide dialogue and institutional transformations, but also promote an increased sense of belonging and internal engagement with university life.
Ongoing
Integrate DEI into new student orientation and the first-year experience for undergraduate students and in orientation programming for new graduate and professional students.
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Provide DEI training for all Marquette staff and faculty
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The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Department of Human Resources has implemented an online program for all employees that focuses on bias, microaggressions, and cultivating a more inclusive campus environment to foster foundational understandings and common vocabulary around these issues.
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Offer additional optional DEI programs for students, faculty, and staff aimed at reducing the effects of bias and unwelcoming behavior affecting community members based on race, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation, class, and other identities.
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The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, the Division of Student Affairs, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and other campus units sponsor a variety of educational opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to engage in critical thinking about issues related to implicit bias, microaggressions, and creating inclusive campus spaces.
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Continue an ongoing commitment to inclusive programming through the annual Symposium on Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice, the Marquette Forum, the Ralph Metcalfe Lecture Series, co-curricular and academic diversity-related forums, faculty-initiated presentations and workshops, and other campus-wide events and activities.
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The Symposium on Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice has become an annual project of the University Committee on Equity and Inclusion (UCEI), and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion continues to sponsor the Marquette Forum and Metcalfe Lecture Series. For additional opportunities to participate in programs related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, sign up to receive the diversity newsletter.
Completed
Focus the Explorer Challenge on projects that seek to improve diversity, equity and inclusion at Marquette and in Milwaukee.
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The VP for Research and Innovation has integrated 鈥渋nclusion鈥� as a key criterion for all Explorer Challenge applicants.
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Support the development of Marquette鈥檚 Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership as it advances gender equity and creates programming and training opportunities for women in leadership.
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The Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership was launched in 2019 to become a national thought leader on women鈥檚 leadership issues.
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Design and sustain ongoing inclusive programming that encourages faculty, staff and student involvement and conversation that interconnects issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.
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As of 2020-21, the Marquette Forum is housed in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and provides resources to implement programs and invite guest speakers around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
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Expand small grants to faculty to better incorporate diverse themes and inclusive teaching practices into their courses.
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Since spring 2019, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion has awarded faculty grants to incentivize the development of diverse curricular development. As of 2021, the Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies (REIS) program will be facilitating this grant funding.
Completed
Conduct a cultural audit of campus spaces to determine how to better align existing Marquette imagery with the history and values of the institution.
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Completed by the University Committee on Equity and Inclusion (UCEI), the Cultural Audit Report was submitted to the Provost and the VP for Planning and Facilities Management for review, resulting in the incorporation of a diversity review in all new campus buildings during the design process as well as the campus mural project in fall 2020.
Completed
Collaborate with students, the Haggerty Museum, and local artists to beautify the campus through culturally diverse mural and visual projects.
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A collaborative team of staff involved in the Cultural Audit, Haggerty Museum staff, students, and others worked to bring a campus mural to fruition in fall 2020. Our Roots Say That We鈥檙e Sisters, created by local artist Mauricio Ramirez, is displayed on the back of Varsity Theater.
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In light of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Educational Opportunity Program, seek opportunities to integrate diversity in the cultural heritage of the university.
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Marquette celebrates the legacy of the EOP program through a dedication in the Centennial Room (AMU 227).
Beginning
Continue steps to secure internal and external fiscal resources to augment Maamawi Abiwin (AMU 157) with a focus on: incorporating Wisconsin鈥檚 six living Indigenous languages and creating a more immersive visitor learning experience by layering Wisconsin Indigenous history and survivance.
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A committee has been formed with internal and external constituents to flesh out the story of this space and appropriate external grants are under review to support the build out.
Completed
Activate the priority that emerged from Native American students in conversations with leadership throughout 2020-21 to embed the institutional land acknowledgment in a physical marker on campus.
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A committee was formed with internal and external constituents to envision the marker and its placement in the campus landscape. In February 2023, this marker was officially dedicated in the Eckstein Commons, east of the Alumni Memorial Union.
Ongoing
Broaden the scope of the Office of the Title IX Coordinator to incorporate greater involvement in gender equity issues
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The Title IX Coordinator has built relationships with campus partners to be included in strategies for gender equity on campus, from athletics to faculty pay equity.
The Title IX Office made revisions on its processes based on new Department of Ed requirements as of 2020.
In summer 2024, Marquette鈥檚 Office of Title IX expanded its support for students under a new name, the Office of Title IX and Student Civil Rights Compliance.
In progress
Substantially improve systems for reporting campus bias incidents (in alignment with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
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The Division of Student Affairs is making modifications to the Bias Incident Reporting and Response processes.
Beginning
Increase campus consciousness about the impacts of bias acts on campus climate
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The Office of Institutional Diversity and the Division of Student Affairs are working on promotion of new Bias Incident protocols and the impact of bias acts on campus.
