Cultural Diversity Initiative Charge
A goal of Saginaw Valley State University is to prepare the professional workforce and leadership for its primary service region and beyond. The University is a portal of opportunity through which high school graduates, with potential to succeed, prepare themselves for more rewarding careers, more interesting lives and more effective service to others. For these reasons the University must undertake extraordinary efforts in the years ahead to serve students from diverse racial and ethnic communities. It must also better prepare all of its students to work with, understand and appreciate the diversity of peoples and ideas that comprise and enrich American culture. SVSU is taking the following steps to ensure this goal by:
- Ensure that the planning, development and
implementation of all programs and events
occur in a timely fashion
- Involve students and student organizations
- Expand programs and events into a year long calendar
- Develop a University-wide cultural diversity calendar
- Use current University initiatives to increase awareness and discussion of cultural diversity-based issues
- Encourage faculty to include cultural diversity events as part of course requirements or credit as it supports academic content or study
- Increase the cultural diversity representation of faculty and staff
- Establish a committee to convene monthly to develop the cultural diversity calendar and to improve the communication and coordination or related programs and events
- Plan and implement activities to create improved connections between minority students and members of the larger tri-county community
- Encourage the Student Association, Residence Hall Student Association to incorporate increased cultural diversity in their programs and events
- Encourage faculty members to incorporate cultural diversity issues in their course offerings as it relates to course content or study
- Encourage the University to continue to support the various outreach programs such as the Roosevelt Ruffin Symposium; King, Chavez, Parks College Day; Visiting Professors Programs; and the College of Education diversity initiatives
- Participate in diversity-related assessment projects