In this unit, there is not a purposive engagement of equity, diversity, and inclusion (needs, challenges, values, or priorities), and such efforts are not framed as integral to the goals, mission, or vision of the unit or university and, thus, are not an organizational priority.
Profile Objectives:
Strategic objectives of the pre-engagement profile are to:
Build awareness and consensus about and capacity for engagement with equity, diversity, and inclusion as an integral component of institutional mission.
Facilitate dialogue with leadership and stakeholders.
Assess organizational barriers to alignment with an embedded inclusive excellence approach and explore their impacts on established priorities and mission.
Action pathways for the pre-engagement profile include:
Pre-Engagement Profile:
Resources and Toolkit
Foundations: Concepts, Models, and Organizational Practice
An embedded inclusive excellence approach depends on multi-tiered formal and informal leadership and change agents, creating multiple pathways for integrating equity, diversity, and inclusion. These efforts are embedded synergistically within our culture and values, institutional practices, and the collaborative social relations and networks that we build to advance our institutional mission.
Training, education, and programming promote engagement and self-awareness, knowledge and learning, workforce development, and organizational practices that support inclusive excellence. This also includes understanding the behavioral, cultural, and systemic factors that may create or promote bias or lead to inequitable practices and policy application.
Book Dialogues for Organizational Practice: Why It MattersThe Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off https://share.percipio.com/cd/4YQe4UAWD –
Organizational and Self-Assessment
Assessment, evaluation, and strategic planning help us establish priorities for strategic action to promote equity excellence and an inclusive climate and identify appropriate metrics and accountability measures to achieve and sustain embedded inclusive excellence (link) and organizational change.
UNC Greensboro’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Excellence Action Framework and Roadmap (link) guides campus efforts to engage individual, interpersonal, and institutional levers to support equity-minded priorities integral to our mission, and to pursue data-driven management of best practices and policies to sustain access, opportunity, andinclusive excellence in service of UNCG’s strategic mission.
Pre-Engagement Workplan and Priorities: (UCB, adapted, p.18) (pdf)
Equity at Work Sanger Leadership Institute University of Michigan
