How to Create a Diversity Plan for Your Institution

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At last a resource that provides everything colleges need to create, implement, and manage a diversity plan. It shows you where to start, how to institutionalize your plan, how to get buy-in from faculty and staff and how to plan for resistance to change. This book includes the five essential characteristics that all successful diversity plans have, as well as the three leading reasons why diversity plans fail.

A primary goal of your plan should be to integrate diversity into every aspect of your campus life. This booklet will explain why this is so important. It provides educational, economic and legal reasons for embracing diversity. It spells out in easy-to-follow language with lots of great examples, important steps in the planning process and shares the most commonly used diversity models.

The appendices alone are worth the price of this book.

You’ll find:

• Over 50 diversity projects your campus can select from
• A rubric you can use to evaluate your various departmental diversity plans
• A list of diversity definitions that everyone on campus should know
• Links to model diversity plans
• Templates for writing annual diversity plans and progress reports
• Everything you need to put together a successful diversity plan
• Effective ways to monitor diversity plans to make sure they are implemented

If your campus is in the process of creating a diversity plan or revising an existing one, use this book to make sure the plan you are constructing is worthy of your mission!