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Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

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2021–2023 Strategic Plan

 This short-duration strategic framework describes goals and very specific action steps to guide the institution through the current, globally tumultuous era.
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2030 Strategic Plan
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A Framework for Planning Organizational Diversity

 Cox’s model is used to determine whether a unit is on its way to becoming an effective multicultural organization, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.
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Access to Excellence

 This academic plan document enumerates the institution’s academic goals and strategies, with special focus on generating or enhancing interdisciplinary connections between the primary academic themes.
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Action Plan for Addressing Systemic Racism and Racial Injustice
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Belonging at Lafayette

 This website for the university’s diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging program houses official statements, related initiatives ongoing in the campus community with recommendations and progress updates for each, events calendars, and more.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Broke
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Book Review: Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education
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Book Review: Equity in Science

 The author identifies five science disciplines as outlier exemplars for their work and success in creating equity-based change, using them to explore how equity issues seep into the everyday life of higher education. Multiple actionable steps are proffered to as readers in the conclusion on how we can address systematic change.
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Book Review: Higher Education Systems Redesigned
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Book Review: Promoting Equity and Justice Through Pedagogical Partnership
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Book Review: The State Must Provide
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Book Review: Work Force Rx
Conference Presentations

Branding and Design Strategies That Build STEM Career Awareness

 This session will explore an integrated approach to planning, design, and branding an HBCU's new STEM facility, including carefully developed digital messaging, to encourage student awareness of STEM academic pathways and professional opportunities.
Blog Post

Bring Your Identity to Your Leadership Journey
Conference Recordings

Building a Path Forward

 United Negro College Fund and HBCU college leaders will examine enrollment, instruction, student success, historic preservation, and fundraising in a post-pandemic world and explore how we can transform these challenges into successes.
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Building Diversity Through Innovative Engagement and Flexible Design

 Join us to learn how you can engage diverse student groups in the design process with social media and new technology to create more inclusive and equitable campus spaces.
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Building. Mission. Culture.

 This presentation will provide insight and offer practical solutions for making DEI and social impact foundational and integrated into every building and planning project.
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California State University’s Graduation Initiative 2025
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Campus Sustainability

 At SCUP, we recognize that climate crisis, social justice, and sustainability are some of the biggest challenges facing higher education. And we believe that the practice of integrated planning will assist campuses develop the strong partnerships required to create durable solutions. Join us for a discussion that includes how you can start today.
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Can a Campus Plan Drive Equity?

 Come find out how you can apply lessons learned and strategies from Wake Tech's inclusive master planning process to successfully respond to opportunities and challenges of diverse enrollment on your campus.
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Centering Wellbeing and Whole Student Health on Campus

 Join us as we take a deep dive into three universities’ recent campus projects aimed at promoting student health and share takeaways at critical junctures of the integrated planning processes.
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Designing an Inclusive Engagement Process for Diverse Campus Representation

 In this session, presenters share their layered, inclusive planning process that engages and empowers campus and community constituents to celebrate cultural expression through the built environment.
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Designing for Belonging and Mattering in Higher Education

 Students’ sense of belonging is strongly connected to wellbeing and academic success. How does a student develop a sense of belonging and mattering and what does that look like in the campus built environment?
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Diversity at Centre

 Webpage for diversity initiatives at the college, including purpose of the diversity office, commitment statements, goals, and current initiatives.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force Homepage

 This page serves as the current home for DEI initiatives on campuses. A formal DEI plan is in development.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan

 The college’s diversity plan, including detailed strategies and metrics.
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Plan Update

 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan for the unit.
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Eliminating Equity Gaps Through Data and Institutional Change Webinar
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Examining Naming Issues on Campus

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2020–2021 program. This report summarizes the specific cases of US institutions that addressed a problematic building or facility naming issue between 2014 and 2021 and what each of them chose to do when faced with this challenging decision.
Conference Recordings

Experience vs Convenience

 Two universities share how their hospitality teams rethought their dining operations over the past year—UConn, as one of the country's largest self-operated food service programs, focused on maintaining diverse options; Yale, as a transformational organization, committed to table gatherings and healthy, locally-sourced food.
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Facilities Planning for Community Colleges

 The planning team for Portland Community College will discuss lessons learned while practicing equity to create an inclusive Facilities Plan for Oregon’s largest higher education institution on thresholds of global, local, and institutional shifts.
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From Siloed to Sustainable

 In this session, you'll learn how to combine digital and physical environments, promote diversity and inclusion, and implement flexibility within campus spaces to prepare your institution for a more blended world.
Conference Recordings

From Siloed to Sustainable

 In this session, you'll learn how to combine digital and physical environments, promote diversity and inclusion, and implement flexibility within campus spaces to prepare your institution for a more blended world.
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Gender Equity or Bust! On the Road to Campus Leadership with Women in Higher Education®
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Gendered Futures in Higher Education:
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Hillsborough Community College Ybor City Campus Tour

 This virtual tour will explore how the campus embraces its multi-cultural history and uses the Ybor City National District as a living laboratory to facilitate its programs with a focus on Hillsborough Community College’s community connections.
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How to Create a Secondary-Postsecondary Partnership to Promote Diversity, Inclusion, and Underrepresented Populations in Higher Education

 This webinar will focus on how to develop a secondary-postsecondary partnership to intentionally promote diversity, inclusion, and recognition of under-represented populations through collaboration and integrated planning strategies. The presenters will share their goals and project planning for a competency-based, project-based learning model—with an emphasis on mentoring.
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Increase Student Participation in Planning to Create More Equitable Spaces
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Innovative Tools for Engaging Challenges in Collaborative Governance

 Join our panel to discuss how traditionally underserved students are reshaping higher education and gain tools and solutions that you can apply to engagement efforts on your campus.
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Institutions Can Say They Encourage Staff DEI Professional Development . . .

 This study examined professional development strategies for higher education professionals in the context of the post-George Floyd-era.
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Integrating Inclusivity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism in Design

 This session will explore the role IDM plays in Western Michigan University's design process and its influence on the development of its new student center.
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Keynote | The Back of the Napkin

 Join international bestselling author Dan Roam for this fast-paced, interactive keynote.
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Keynote: The Empowered University

 Freeman A. Hrabowski III has led a transformation of UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) from a young, regional institution to an innovative research university. In our opening keynote, he discusses how—by taking a hard look in the mirror, understanding strengths and weaknesses, assessing opportunities and challenges, and engaging in difficult conversations—an empowered campus can innovate in course redesign, group-based and experiential learning, entrepreneurship and civic engagement, academic inclusion, and faculty diversity.
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Learning Space Design for the Ethnically Diverse Undergraduate Classroom

 This pilot study was conducted to evaluate how space contributes to the learning outcomes of a demographically diverse class of students at Morgan State University, a Historically Black Institution.
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Learning Spaces of the Future
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Leveraging Institutional Planning to Benefit Latinx Students

 How can institutional planners make a difference for underrepresented minority students? Senior administrators at East Los Angeles College addressed inequities in Latinx student transfer rates with data-backed culturally-relevant strategies.
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Leveraging Landholdings to Promote Equity and Inclusion at Gallaudet University

 Come learn how you can facilitate agency for all by using Gallaudet University’s model for leveraging campus assets to develop more equitable space and improve the wellbeing of your campus community.
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Libraries in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

 How can institutions leverage librarians as educational partners, complementing the classroom experience, to ensure students from all walks of life have a strong net of academic support?
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Master Planning Engagement Strategies for Underrepresented Students

 This session offers new practices that yield social equity in campus planning and building design.
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Maximizing Impact

 Only when diversity is purposefully included in a strategic plan can true diversity strategic planning take place.
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Partnerships Promote Inclusion

 Intentional planning and a competency-based, personalized learning model empowers graduate students from the architecture discipline to assist secondary students in becoming knowledge seekers and design professionals.
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Planning Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Campus Environments

 Student-centered insights on the design of formal learning environments and informal study and lounge spaces can help campuses increase the sense of belonging and improve learning outcomes for underrepresented students. The author is a SCUP Fellow for the 2020–2021 program. Read her full research project final report which infuses student-centered research into a playbook that can guide universities and design teams through key DEI strategies for planning, designing, and assessing physical campus space.
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Planning for Equity-Centered Transformation

 We must abandon the traditional three- to five-year planning cycle in favor of combining a macro-planning approach with shorter-term sprints (quick-turnaround scenario planning flexibility) to meet the changing needs of our students and communities.
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Prioritizing Campus Diversity Budgets

 Researchers learned that if diversity initiatives were a strategic priority for an institution, the 2020 financial crisis did little to reduce budget allocations.
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Reassessing the Elements of an Inclusive Campus

 Join us for a workshop that will help you reimagine your own campus's academic environments through empathy, adopting different perspectives, and identifying elements of inclusion and exclusion.
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Reckoning with Entangled Histories

 In this symposium, four institutions will share their approaches to these complicated questions and how they’re continuing the conversation around the legacy of slavery on their campuses.
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Recognize and Honor Your Identity
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Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty

 Despite efforts to alleviate problems associated with women and minority recruitment and retention, problems still exist, as shown in a review of current literature and a survey of selected institutions.
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Responsive Design

 We invite you to join a discussion on how schools can thrive by taking this inclusive approach to planning and development.
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SCUP Fellow Presentation | Naming Issues on Campus

 In this session, we’ll describe the trends, challenges, and opportunities related to re-naming and de-naming on campus.
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SCUP Fellow Presentation | Peripheral Vision

 Gain an early view of a yearlong study into creating a set of metrics for campus planners and facility designers to assess physical space on campus in support of the strategic planning values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Seven Lessons in Inclusive Campus Design

 Institutions are starting to grapple with histories of developing indigenous lands and the legacy of an able-bodied vernacular within campus design that continues to reinforce in-groups and out-groups.
Example Plans

Shaping What’s Next

 The university’s detailed strategic plan, which includes goals focused on student success, diversity and equity, and increasing its presence as a research center.
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Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe
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Smart Building, Smart Campus

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2019–2020 program. This report explores the hypothesis that user-centered design would better address STEM student needs and could increase the likelihood of a broader adoption of remote labs.
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Social Equity and the Modern Campus

 Campus framework plans for Oregon State University and Bellevue College fully integrate social equity with engagement processes and physical solutions to improve the sense of welcome and inclusion.
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Social Mobility and the Graduation Rate Paradox

 By using a metric-based planning framework, researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso identified areas for institutional intervention to enhance social mobility outcomes.
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Strategic Planning That’s Truly Strategic

 What do strategic plans do? What does it mean to be “strategic”? These are among the questions addressed in a recent year-long study of 108 active college and university strategic plans. Hear directly from the researchers as they highlight a few important insights they discovered during their analysis, like how to avoid the many pitfalls of strategic planning and ensure a process focused on strategy and outcomes.
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Strategic Priorities 2014–2019

 A high-level document enumerating the institution’s five strategic goals and strategies for achieving each goal.
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Supporting Neurodiversity in Higher Education

 By integrating several unique campus voices, we can realize that unassignable space is highly valuable to the neurodivergent campus occupant.
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Supporting the Whole Student

 In this session, we’ll share how the College of Marin and Chabot College's integrated learning centers are serving changing student populations using an inclusive library design approach.
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Tell Us What You Think

 More than 1,600 students and alumnae provided input through online mapping tools and in-person workshops. Staff and faculty were interviewed in person and via phone. And Instagram was used to reach 6,400 members of the campus community.
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Ten for One

 The research university’s 2023 strategic plan.
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The Art and Science of Supporting Adult Learners

 More than ever, nontraditional students and adult learners are making up more and more of the student body at colleges and universities across the country. Learn how to effectively stand out from other institutions who are making mistakes in 10 key areas with the adult learner population.
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The Grand Challenges in Assessment Project Supports Progress in Integrated Planning

 In recognition of the important role assessment plays in integrated planning, SCUP is an endorsing organization of the Grand Challenge in Assessment Project. In this blog post, we discuss the project and explore how it can help advance integrated planning in higher education.
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The Paradigm Shift for Higher Education

 Join us to discuss the postsecondary education paradigm shift and its potential impact on our educational infrastructure, ecosystem, and role.
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The Planning and Design of Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Campus Environments

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2020–2021 program. Space is not neutral; we perceive physical environments differently based on our backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. This new, research-based playbook can guide universities and design teams through key strategies and possible metrics relative to DEI to use when planning, designing, and assessing physical campus space.
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The Process and Positive Outcomes of Indigenous Placemaking

 Ryerson University's experience with indigenous placemaking offers valuable, practical insights into a process that can help your institution to respect and advance indigenous cultures while balancing many other contextual factors.
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The Value of Promising Failures and Partial Successes

 The Grand Challenges Project provides a comprehensive framework for institutions to overcome barriers, promote equity, and advance continuous improvement in higher education evaluation practices.
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Unleashing the Power of Difference

 We live in a neurodiverse world. Spaces that support sensory needs can allow a wider range of students to flourish, creating a more equitable—and more flexible—environment. Leaders from Thomas Jefferson University and Verona Carpenter Architects will share examples across typologies of innovative solutions, unleashing the generative power of difference.
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Use Evidence to Plan Facilities That Drive Student Success

 In this article, the author draws upon research from his book How to Get the Most Out of College to highlight the evidence that campus planners and designers can use to help drive student success.
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Utah Board of Higher Education Strategic Plan 2021

 Strategic plan for the university system developed by the state’s board of higher education.
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Voices from the Field: Episode #15

 As a campus built on standards of social justice and experiential learning, Roger Williams University used COVID-19 as an opportunity to think creatively about ways to serve its community. Chief of Staff Brian Williams shares how the school showed its character throughout the crisis, coming up with personal ways to connect with prospective families, support off-campus communities, and open pathways to learning.
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Voices from the Field: Episode #20

 Hear how Grand Valley State University’s Loren Rullman frames the changes COVID-19 brings to student life, using the word “more”—more technology, more options, more outside-the-box thinking, and more action and cultural change—as we look ahead to the transformation of campuses for fall and beyond.
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Welcome to Campus

 Creating and sustaining a more welcoming and inclusive campus environment positions both institutions and students to succeed in a more diverse world.
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Why Do Most Institutional Presidents Look Roughly the Same?

 An institution’s governing board should determine how diversity initiatives will be prioritized during the search process.
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Women Administrators in Higher Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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You Belong Here

 Many marginalized student populations don’t see themselves as higher education material. Creating places on campus that reaffirm to them that they belong is vital.