Campus Accessibility, Openness to Diversity, and Community Development

This subcommittee of the diversity committee was originally charged with the following tasks:

suggesting ways to measure openness to diversity
overseeing the implementation of these measures
based on results from the above points, suggesting campus activities that might improve campus climate
recommending priorities in building improvements that might allow full access to campus activities to people with differing physical abilities
suggesting financial needs required to implement activities mentioned above.

In April 2008, as a result of Action Awareness Week, the charge of this subcommittee was reoriented towards the following action items:

in collaboration with the dean of student services; relevant staff within her office; faculty; students; and other professionals, working on the revision and expansion of the College’s existing discrimination and harassment policy, with special but not exclusive attention to racial harassment, so that the expanded policy will appear in the 2008-2009 edition of Non Satis Non Scire. The policy will include a clear description of how complaints and grievances are to be handled.
continuing its work studying the training and evaluation that each department does in relation to race and diversity, so we can share the best practices across campus.

Minutes

Minutes for meetings of this group are available below by clicking on the appropriate links.

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