V. Providing a Culture of Care

Goals

• Foster a culture of care for faculty and staff around core values grounded in equity, diversity, and inclusion and committed to respect and support within the community

• Support and promote professional satisfaction and advancement opportunities through flexibility, excellence, and innovation for faculty and staff

The upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic and the nation’s renewed reckoning with racial violence and fight for racial justice have urged a re-examination of our workplace, its equity record and aspirations, and its commitment to examine faculty and staff capacity challenges as a means to sustain and grow the success of the School. Similarly, our history of rapid growth has challenged our ability to sustain what we have built, and we need to commit to providing our students and staff with exemplary support. Our pre- and continuing pandemic experience calls upon us to build a campus culture that recognizes that a diverse and supported CUNY SPS faculty and staff are best positioned to teach and support students when they are cared for themselves.

V. Proposed Actions and Initiatives

Faculty/Staff Development

• Develop and implement the 2021 Campus Climate Survey Action Plan

• Build a robust onboarding experience for new faculty and staff, beginning with an emphasis on our adjunct faculty

• Determine best practices in hybrid and remote work schedules for CUNY SPS personnel

• Commit to ongoing support of faculty and staff career goals, leadership development, and efforts that promote organizational affinity

• Develop staff and faculty success markers, and a culture of appreciation and recognition

• Commit to ongoing EDI-informed learning and development activities for faculty and staff

• Conduct regular campus climate surveys to assess employee satisfaction and impact of EDI efforts and diagnose progress on action plans

• Conduct a campus climate survey of students

Measuring Our Efforts

• Core Values

• Measurements for active leadership support for and communication of the School’s core values

• Professional development and EDI opportunities provided to staff

• Professional development and EDI opportunities provided to faculty

• Faculty and staff recognized annually for special achievements

• Metrics for faculty and staff well-being and professional satisfaction

• Metrics for School adherence to and advancement of EDI policies and practices

• Faculty and staff retention (disaggregated by academic program, office function, race, gender, etc.)