To support Claremont Graduate University’s commitment to its core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to raise awareness and promote communication and information exchange, and to strive to do better, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is working to advance the following actions:
- Foster an academic community of inclusive excellence
- Expand diversity and inclusion activities to develop faculty, staff, and student skills and mindsets that improve the community
- Foster a sense of respect and just practice across the campus while promoting research, creative work, and community outreach that impact positive social change
- Complete, implement, and assess school diversity plans
- Prioritize diversity planning and the implementation of initiatives that positively and measurably impact the campus community
- Integrate diversity planning with strategic and enrollment planning and student success initiatives
- Raise visibility and support a vital, responsive, and impactful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
- Promote the recruitment, retention, success, and full participation of diverse faculty, staff, students, alumni, and trustees
- Develop an admissions and recruitment equity plan
- Improve accessibility, transparency, and disaggregation of diversity-related data
- Enhance support structures and resources for Veterans and other demographic groups
- Build on initiatives to increase awareness of mental health issues and resources for graduate students
- Demonstrate inclusive excellence across equitable and inclusive classrooms and curricula
- Implement a bold advancement agenda that expands fellowship opportunities and other programs for underrepresented students
- Increase the percentage of grants and fundraising that advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work
- Increase publicity and awareness of research, creative work, and community outreach related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and positive social change