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The Mission of Belmont University
Belmont University is a student-centered Christian community providing an academically challenging education that empowers men and women of diverse backgrounds to engage and transform the world with disciplined intelligence, compassion, courage and faith
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The Vision of “Welcome Home”
Through the work of the Welcome Home Team, Belmont strives to become a model for creating and sustaining a culture of racial and ethnic diversity, producing a welcoming environment among its students, faculty and staff
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Belmont’s Welcome Home Team
Established by Senior Leadership to support the university’s goal of becoming more diverse and broadly reflective of our local and global communities Belmont students, faculty and staff serve in an advisory capacity to senior leadership
Meets regularly to explore initiatives and plan strategies to create a culture of inclusion
Ensure learning experiences that enable students to gain strong intercultural competencies
Actively and intentionally recruit faculty, staff and students from diverse racial and ethnic
backgrounds
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Welcome Home: Team Strategy
Utilize a tactical approach to increase racial and ethnic diversity by recognizing and supporting on-going campus diversity initiatives and establishing tiered initiatives and goals
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Welcome Home: Ongoing Campus Initiatives
Web site developed that features Belmont’s Diversity and Global Initiatives
http://www.belmont.edu/diversity/welcome-home.html
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
WHT Vision: Recruit faculty/staff from diverse racial & ethnic
backgrounds
(Human
Resources)
Establish
a racially diverse group of faculty and staff who offer insight on recruiting diverse
faculty:
Meetings with minority faculty held to discuss recruiting methods to increase diversity within the faculty
Follow-up
survey asking that any other written responses be
shared
Action items created with the goal of creating a formalized strategic plan for the Provost’s
review
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Require diversity training for faculty and staff: On-line courses required with significant completion by all faculty and staff
New faculty orientation to include a diversity discussion with a diverse faculty member to co-facilitate the
discussion
New staff orientation workshops include diversity components with open
discussion
Departmental sessions for OCS and FMS on Harassment and
Diversity
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Establish a process for connecting with alumni to obtain recruitment recommendations and referrals of diverse individuals for job openings: Alumni Relations to increase stories and images of diverse alumni in their publications
Network with diverse alumni and communicate open job positions at
Belmont
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Add a diversity competency to staff performance evaluations: “Diversity” added as a competency expected
of
all staff
Actively
encourages others to keep diversity as a primary goal in recruitment and retention of members of the Belmont community
Values and serves as a role model for supporting Belmont’s emphasis on diversity
Applies policies consistently
Treats everyone equitably and fairly
Embraces diversity in daily work life, realizing that diversity is multifaceted (learning styles, generational, gender, racial, religious)
Understands and complies with Belmont’s Affirmative Action Plan
Works with diverse groups of employees comfortably and willingly
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Add a diversity competency to 360 degree provost, assistant provost, dean, associate dean, and assistant dean evaluations: “
Demonstrates leadership in recruiting and hiring diverse faculty and staff”
Added
to the spring 360
degree evaluation
instrument for all 27
evaluations
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives (Admissions)
WHT Vision: Recruit
Students from Diverse Racial and Ethnic
Backgrounds (Admissions)
Support
the “Bridges to Belmont” program:
30
new Bridges
scholarships were added
for fall 2014 –
26 enrolled
fall 2013
Selection, review, and interview processes enhanced
New cohort to attend Be Belmont Day and Foundations
Enhanced mentorship program and outreach
Progress reports and oversight
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Ensure diverse membership of the Ambassadors, Bruin Recruiter groups, Resident Assistants, Orientation Council, Towering Traditions leaders, Student Government Association(SGA), Student Activities Programming Board (SAPB), and Greek Council
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of 22 Belmont Ambassadors (14%) are from a diverse
background as of Spring 2014
14 of 107 Bruin Recruiters (13%) are from a diverse
background as of Spring 2014
14% of the current 37 SGA members, 19% of the 111 Resident Assistants, 20% of the 10 Orientation Council members, and 10 % of the 157 Towering Tradition leaders are from diverse backgrounds
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Expand involvement of diversity-based student organizations in undergraduate and graduate recruitment: Black Student Association (BSA),
Chinese Cultural Club, and Hispanic Alliance to participate in
undergraduate admissions events such as Preview Days and Be Belmont Days
BSA
phone-a-thon held for
admitted diverse
students
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Require diversity training for students (Student Affairs): 12 Steps toward Appreciating Diversity
session held during Welcome Week
Training for student leaders completed prior to fall
semester
Research online
diversity training opportunities for
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
intended for all student leaders
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Enhance diversity options for students: Increased minority-based student organizations More diverse faculty/staff have volunteered as advisors
Multicultural council in process under the direction of Assistant Dean of Students
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Provide focused professional development and training for diverse faculty to assist with teaching, promotion and tenure issues (Provost Council):Reviewed diverse faculty “three year reviews” and diverse faculty applications for promotion and tenure
Improved the recruitment process of diverse
faculty
Recommendation to provide
training designed for diverse
faculty
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Develop a “Supplier Diversity Pilot Program” to mutually benefit minority and women-owned businesses and Belmont (Community Relations)Pilot program initiated for 2014-2015 for facility and event services vendors
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Conduct regular focus groups and/or surveys consisting of faculty, staff and students related to diversity issues in order to solicit recruiting and advertising recommendations as well as to inform institutional marketing staff and Senior Leadership (Marketing/Communication): Planning to conduct student, faculty and staff focus groups in the fall semester to gain insight into recruiting and advertising initiatives. (Focus groups conducted prior to development of new admissions material)
Incorporate
questions into
existing and future
climate
surveys
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Welcome Home: Tier One Initiatives
Highlight and communicate university diversity efforts (Marketing/Communications): Belmont Diversity and Global Initiatives website includes Welcome Home
http://www.belmont.edu/diversity/welcome-home.html
Communicate
diversity initiatives
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Welcome Home: Next Steps
Seeking approval forTier Two Initiatives in 2014
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Welcome Home Team
Questions?
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