Recommendation 2: All academic units must review their curricula and consider how they might incorporate diversity in an appropriate, meaningful fashion

Recommendation 2: All academic units must review their curricula and consider how they might incorporate diversity in an appropriate, meaningful fashion.

Rationale: For diversity and inclusion to occupy a central role in the Trinity educational experience, all departments and interdisciplinary programs must contribute in a meaningful way to the development of an inclusive curriculum that equitably broadens the scope to diverse and underrepresented groups and seeks to challenge bias, practices, and traditional approaches for instruction.

Stakeholders: VPAA, Faculty, Students

Recommended Actions

The University Curriculum Council (UCC) will develop a process to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives into the FYE curriculum. Encourage the selection and choice of speakers with racially, ethnically, diverse religious orientations, and/or LGBTQI as well as other underrepresented groups perspectives in all speaker series. Require academic departments to incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion criteria into the annual performance review rubrics as well as departmental promotion and tenure criteria. The UCC, in collaboration with academic departments and programs, will develop a strategy to foster greater

Performance Indicators

Develop and present a report to the faculty assembly. There will be a 15% increase in the number and type of diverse speakers featured on campus Revision of all department performance review rubrics and promotion and tenure criteria UCC submits proposal to Faculty Assembly

Responsible Parties

Chair of the University Curriculum Council, Vice President for Academic Affairs, First Year Experience

Director and Committee Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs: Budget and Research, Department Chairs, Interdisciplinary Directors, Chair of LVSC, Lennox Committee, Humanities Collective, StierenSeries, and other lecture series leadership units

Department Chairs, Chair of the University Curriculum Council, Vice President for

Academic Affairs Chair of the University Curriculum Council Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs:

diversity within the curriculum beyond the current Pathways requirements. All academic departments must engage in conversations with faculty, students, and alumni to identify diversity, equity, and inclusion curricular gaps. Revision of majors/minors and interdisciplinary minors to incorporate curricula that is more inclusive of all underrepresented groups Curriculum and Faculty Development, Vice President

for Academic Affairs Department Chairs, Program Directors, Interdisciplinary Directors, DACs

Suggested Timeline:

● We recommend that departments/interdisciplinary programs begin this work during the

FY2021 and aim to submit proposals to the UCC by Fall 2021.