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Become a Royal! Scranton offers the perfect combination of academic environment, social experience, and personal support our students need to build successful lives and careers.
Institutional Commitment, Transparency, Coordination, and Accountability
Coordination of Campus Efforts
Inventory existing electronic resources to identify areas of focus for diversity and inclusion information, and ensure that content related to diversity, equity and inclusion activity and policies is current.
Overseen by: Elizabeth Garcia, Executive Director, Office of Equity and Diversity, and the Council for Diversity and Inclusion
Item Status: Work in progress.
Update:
A CDI Subcommittee has been formed to identify and inventory the resources for analysis. A review of the electronic resources identified some overlap, and updates where recommended. This resulted in revisions to the non-academic accommodations websites overseen by OED to ensure consistency and ease of use once the non-academic accommodations were transferred from OSSS to OED.
Efforts are underway to improve accessibility for the University’s websites. Staff and faculty throughout the University is making improvements to scores of pages to ensure accessibility websites and other electronic methods of communication. CMS are continuously being trained about accessibility through webinars and knowledge base articles.
Build a dedicated, searchable web location (page, app) for campus constituents to view and register for diversity and inclusion trainings and events.
Overseen by: Elizabeth Garcia, Executive Director, Office of Equity and Diversity; Gerald Zaboski, Senior Vice President, Office of the President; Lauren Rivera, Vice President, Student Life, and Dean of Students
Utilizing methods to raise awareness and increase participation in diversity and inclusion programs, services, and initiatives through increased marketing.
Overseen by: Michelle Maldonado, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Elizabeth Garcia, Executive Director, Office of Equity and Diversity; Gerald Zaboski, Senior Vice President, Office of the President; Lauren Rivera, Vice President, Student Life, and Dean of Students
Item Status:Completed and Regularly Updated.
Update: Academic Affairs, Student Life and the Office of Equity and Diversity (“OED”), continues to maintain the DEI website, which provides information on activities and events. Additionally, DEI programming was promoted through Royal News, University social media channels, and public relations outreach to external media. Finally, the “cultural/identity” category was added to RoyalSync to allow student club/organization events to be tagged or filter for interest.
Expand opportunities for feedback to these (see previous), and other offerings through surveys, focus groups, and town hall events.
Overseen by: Daniel Cosacchi, Vice President for Mission and Ministry; Victoria Castellanos, Dean Panuska College of Professional Studies; Michelle Maldonado, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Patricia Tetreault, Vice President for Human Resources; Elizabeth Garcia, Executive Director, Office of Equity and Diversity; Lauren Rivera, Vice President, Student Life, and Dean of Students; David Dzurec, Interim Dean College of Arts and Sciences; Mark Higgins, Dean Kania School of Management
Item status: Year 2.
Update: The Division of Mission and Ministry has incorporated of DEI issues into surveys and town hall meeting.
Utilizing information gathered through various reviews, reduce duplicative diversity and inclusion work to streamline programming and improve depth of education through collaboration.
Overseen by: Cabinet
Item status: Work in progress.
Updates:
Maldonado, Garcia, and Davis (then Vice President for Student Life) met to discuss DEI programing and education between academics and student life. Maldonado and Garcia included discussion on this topic at the Dean Retreat on August 15, 2022. Discussion took place at the Dean Retreat related to the TAPESTRY and Passport programs, living learning communities and other collaboration opportunities with Student Life and other Divisions. Collaboration took place between and among the Divisions, the Black Studies Concentration Faculty, the Cultural Centers and the 50th Anniversary in Co-Education Committee, to plan programs for Black History Month, Hispanic Studies Month and Women’s History Month, with plans for continued collaboration on other month celebrations. Maldonado, Garcia and Rivera meet monthly to discuss programming and other projects with an eye toward collaboration and DEI.
Following the Provost’s Office and OED’s collaboration effort to create an Inclusive Hiring Guide for Faculty searches, the Office for Human Resources utilized the framework for this resources as the basis to develop a Guide for an inclusive recruitment process for staff and administrator positions.
The Office of Equity and Diversity gathers members from Student Life, Mission and Ministry, the Weinberg Memorial Library, the Slattery Center, Community Relations and faculty from certain academic departments monthly to streamline planning, marketing and efficiency of heritage months.
