The MBKU DEI Committee established goals to achieve as an institution based on focus group discussions held across campus, engaging stakeholders from every department, including administrators, students, staff, and faculty.
- Goal: Development of inclusive culture through education on diversity, inclusion and cultural humility
- Action Items
- Faculty and Staff Development
- Establish mandatory training curriculum for employees related to DEI/CC
- Provide Employee development opportunities related to DEI/CC
- Provide Faculty development opportunities related to DEI/CC
- Provide development opportunities for clinic specific topics and issues
- Diversify celebration/recognition activities to be inclusive of campus community observances and interests
- Student development
- Increase curricular content on cultural competency/humility and DEI topics across programs
- Develop a cultural competency and humility course within IPE curriculum
- Investigate additional levels of training
- Faculty and Staff Development
- Action Items
- Goal: Increase diversity in recruitment
- Action Items:
- Develop recruitment strategies to increase student diversity for each program and college
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- Goal: Support retention of students through equitable learning environments
- Action Items:
- Increase retention of students enrolled at the university
- Increase diversity of employees’ applicants and recruits
- Increase employee retention
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- Goal: Strive for culturally responsive and inclusive community relations
- Action Items:
- Ensure marketing content and materials are representative of MBKU's diversity and meet the end user needs
- Ensure marketing and communication services are accessible to DEI Committee efforts
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