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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Overview | Guides | Campus Examples | Documents to Download

Tools for Assessment, Campus Climate Studies, and Action

As noted, diversity is one of the six Bonner Common Commitments. Such efforts foster the sense of Beloved Community that is a foundation for the Bonner Program’s work and hopes for higher education. Moreover, the degree of campus and program diversity is one of the contributing factors to the success and impact of the Bonner Program, according to research from the longitudinal Student Impact Survey. Inclusivity – including of the student body, faculty, and with community constituents – are critical to building and sustaining an effective educational environment.

We believe that the Bonner Program is a force for promoting greater equity and inclusion on campus and within the greater contexts of community within which colleges and universities exist. Building the Beloved Community, however, must be an intentional, ongoing, and systemic commitment. Bonner Programs and centers often provide a welcoming, safe space that nurtures the success of all students and also fosters a more anti-racist, inclusive institution. Yet, building a campus climate that lives these values requires the investment of the broader institution, including its leadership, faculty, staff, and partners.

The examples and resources on the Documents to Download have been gathered from a number of colleges and universities, including some that participate in the Bonner network as well as others beyond it. The intention is to provide Bonner Program staff, faculty, students, and other colleagues with ideas and supports for building a more inclusive campus climate, one that also recognizes the assets and contributions of larger communities surrounding the campus. These resources have been used successfully in a variety of institutional and organizational environments, are often tied to scholarship and best practice, and provide an opportunity for diverse individuals and their voices to be involved.

These resources include a variety of tools that may be useful for campus discussions and self-assessments of the campus climate.

Achieving Equitable Educational Outcomes with All Students – The Institution’s Roles and Responsibilities: This handbook, available from the Association of American Colleges and Universities Making Excellence Inclusive initiative, discusses the achievement gap, diversity, equity, and related issues. This article includes the Diversity Scorecard, a mechanism to help campuses put existing institutional data to good use by using them to identify inequities in educational outcomes for African American and Latino/a students in postsecondary education. The Scorecard can help campus leaders to establish indicators to assess their institution’s effectiveness in improving access, retention, institutional receptivity, and excellence for these historically underrepresented students.

An Equity Scorecard: This tool, developed by the Center for Urban Education at the University of California, has been used by institutions across the country. In this process, the institution develops an Evidence Team comprised of faculty members, Diversity Officers, Student Support Services Personnel, Transfer Coordinators, Institutional Researchers, and Administrators. The Equity Scorecard™ is both a process and a data tool. As a process, it combines a theoretical framework with practical strategies to initiate institutional change that will lead to equitable outcomes for students of color. What’s unique about it is the engagement of individuals from different departments and divisions in an evidence team which investigates campus data, practices and policies. Near the conclusion of the process, the team will complete a Scorecard which captures the results of its investigations. This then leads to action plans to change curriculum, policies, and practices. See this article: The Equity Scorecard: A Collaborative Approach to Assess and Respond to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Student Outcomes by Frank Harris III and Estela Mara Bensimon. See https://cue.usc.edu/tools/the-equity-scorecard/

Anti-Racist Continuum: This continuum presents a six level rubric for assessing an organizational or institutional climate, with being a fully inclusive anti-racist multicultural organization in a transformed society as the highest level. It was developed by Crossroads Ministry in Chicago, Illinois, an organization that works actively on these issues. It adapts from original concept by Bailey Jackson and Rita Hardiman, and further developed by Andrea Avazian and Ronice Branding.

Project HERE: H.E.R.E. (Higher Education Reparations Engagement) is a resource and networking hub for campuses and local communities that are examining their histories, responsibilities, and commitments to restorative justice and repair for the historic and current injustices of slavery and colonialism. Resources are curated for use by campuses and community organizations for addressing the acknowledgement, healings, and ending of systemic racial injustices at the institutional, local, and national level. The resources are curated for use by students, faculty, staff, and community partners to examine, organize around, and act on securing reparations. The resources are aimed at change internal to the campus as well as change in the community, with community partners. Attention to reparations allows for examining campus practices as well as how campus resources can be aimed toward organizing and advocacy for changing political conditions to make possible local and national reparations efforts. To have a strong understanding of where we are, we must study the historic moments perpetuating the inequalities that would have led to a just and equitable America. We must also understand the existing economic divide, how it came to be and how it can be eliminated. Lastly, will investigate how this work can lay the foundation for belonging for all people of the United States of America.

Project HERE Campus Self-Assessment Tool: The PROJECT HERE Institutional Assessment Tool was designed to help institutions in their ongoing work to be more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and supportive of the full participation and success of all their members. This tool is designed for use by a team of institutional and community stakeholders to as- sess the current infrastructure, alignment, and practice of the institution around its commitment to anti- racism and full participation. It is intended to help spur conversation, reflection, and further action by the institution to work towards being a fully inclusive, multicultural, and anti-racist institution. As a tool for self-assessment, using the tool may help the institution to identify concrete strategies that it might take to move further along the continuum to equity. The tool is designed as a rubric. Each indicator has five levels which describe the current practice. Level one is intended to describe an institutional context that is resistant to inclusion. Level five is intended to describe an institution actively working (across levels and units) to practice full participation. At the highest levels, the institution may even be considering forms of reparations and reconciliation for historical wrongdoing. The Bonner Foundation was involved in the development of this institutional assessment tool (through Ariane Hoy's participation in the task force), and it has a similar structure to the Bonner Self-Assessment Tool. We encourage campus teams to use this tool and its completion to inform the creation of action plans. Such plans may be linked with strategic initiatives, such as the Racial Justice Community Fund or Community-Engaged Learning Initiative.

Principles of Anti-Racist Community-Engaged Pedagogy: Drawing on the literature on anti-racist and community-engaged pedagogy and on input from students of color and community partners, this statement is designed to serve as a resource for community-engaged faculty adopting anti-racist pedagogy and practices.

Cultural Competency in Service-Learning: This handout includes a color-blind racial attitudes scoring survey, glossary of important terms, recommendations for institutions of higher learning, and strategies for implementation. It may be useful for Center for Civic Engagement (or other division) staff and faculty to discuss, in particular, perhaps involving students and community partners as well.

Identifying Institutional Racism Folio (2005): This is a handbook with a range of practical tools including readings, an assessment questions, and resources. It was developed by the Seattle Human Services Coalition. While written to assist human service organizations in ways to identify and eliminate institutional racism in their organization, its contents are also useful for colleges and universities.

New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Higher Education: NERCHE's Self-Assessment Rubric was designed to assist members of the higher education community in gauging the progress of their diversity, inclusion, and equity efforts on their campus. The rubric was developed by a project work team that emerged from NERCHE's former Multicultural Affairs Think Tank. The format was adapted from Furco’s Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Service Learning in Higher Education, which was in turn based on the Continuums of Service Benchmark Worksheet. The tool addresses various dimensions of campus activities, including administrative leadership, mission, faculty support, curriculum, staff support, and student support. See more at NERCHE.org.

Top 15 Ways White Professors Can Support Students of Color: This practical and compelling list was authored by members of the Mars Hill University Intercultural Council (UIC) based on feedback received from focus groups of Mars Hill University students of color.

Worksheet on White Dominant Culture and Something Different: This worksheet encourages individuals to examine characteristics of white dominant culture listed in the worksheet and think about how they apply to their lives or play out in their organization. The worksheet also lists other characteristics that reflect alternative approaches, and asks individuals to reflect on how they could make a shift for more inclusive organizational culture.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (by Peggy McIntosh). This article, first published in 1989, is an important educational piece for students, staff, and faculty (and others). McIntosh explores the various privileges she had not examined that stemmed from her being a white person. She begins by saying, “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.”

Campus Example: Mars Hill University

The following documents were shared by Caroline Twiggs (Community Partnerships Coordinator and National Bonner Fellow at Mars Hill University). They have been developed and used by the University Intercultural Council. You can reach her at ctwiggs@mhu.edu.

Campus Climate Survey (Spring 2014) Results: This handout describes the process and findings from a survey at Mars Hill University. The survey was designed and administered by the University Intercultural Council. It describes its purpose, procedure, response rates, findings, and implications for action.

Inclusive Excellence: A New Diversity Initiative at Mars Hill University: This handout frames a college initiative to assess campus climate and policies and articulate strategies to improve inclusion. It includes context (and signals an important shift in language away from the term minority), a charge, institutional challenges, strategic goals, and a summary.

Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Statements: This handout contains samples of statements and definitions from Mars Hill University regarding equal employment opportunity and affirmative action. To fulfill this commitment, the University administers its programs, procedures and practices without regard to age, color, disability, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.

Guidelines for Recruiting a Diverse Workforce (2016): This handout was developed by Mars Hill University’s Intercultural Council. It includes definitions (i.e., Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Diversity), protocol for external faculty and staff searches, guidelines for recruitment, search committee “Code of Ethics,” interview protocol, and other policy oriented recommendations. Other campuses may want to look at it for examples.

Inclusive Excellence: LGBTQ Campus Climate: This handout, also developed by the Mars Hill University Intercultural Council (UIC), was formed to advance an agenda around issues of diversity on campus. UIC used the AAC&U model of Inclusive Excellence as a framework to reach out to members of the campus community to work on diversity issues. The handout articulates idea for addressing the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) community, including the implementation of a campus survey and supporting literature.

Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) and Respect MHU: This handout describes the roles of a group of staff and faculty members who are help foster a proactive response to instances of hate and bias. When a member of the MHU campus community reports a bias/hate incident through Respect MHU one or more of the BIRT members will support the individuals and connect them with the appropriate resources, and follow-up with them until the situation has been resolved. As such, BIRT and Respect MHU are systems that will assist individuals who report bias or hate incidents and assist in fostering a welcoming and inclusive campus community for all.

Bonner Racial Justice Community Fund

The Bonner Foundation is announcing a community fund for students and faculty in the Bonner Network to support racial justice initiatives that address inequities and build bridges in their local communities. We are encouraging students to engage other Bonners on their campus, the 3,000 current students across our national network of 65 colleges and universities, and our 18,000+ Bonner alumni. We are asking faculty to incorporate social action into an existing or new course where students can learn and join or launch a social action campaign during the semester that addresses racial injustice. We are developing and will announce the guidelines for this new fund in the coming weeks. These funds will be in addition to existing funds available at endowed institutions in the network. Additionally, the 2020-2021 funds for Community-Engaged Learning may also connect with racial justice initiatives, such as coursework or new academic programs.

The Bonner Foundation staff and community of campuses will support these efforts with funding and also on-going training, resource development, and networking. Our goals with this funding are not only to launch new projects and courses that seek to address the immediate and long-standing challenges facing our country and communities, but also to build sustainable structures and support on campuses in our network that will continue this work for the long-term.

Accessing Bonner Community Funds on Your Campus

The majority of the Foundation funds (whether from endowments or other grants) are allocated to students’ financial aid and to funding the operations of campus-wide centers. Additionally, only a third of the institutions in our network have funds from the Foundation, and many support their programs through Work Study and other institutional funds. If your campus is an endowed Bonner Scholar or Leader Program, talk with your Director or Coordinator about how to create a proposal for using your Bonner Community Fund and/or Junior/Senior Leadership Fund for organizing, training, and supporting efforts within your community. Additional information about pools of Bonner funds can be found here.

8-Themes Curriculum - Module on Fundraising — Check out this training to learn more about crowd-source fundraising and to find platforms and help with this skill.

Questions To Facilitate Dialogue on College Campuses

What are some best practices for approaching the protests once we are back on campus? (Campuses often encounter situations involving race, e.g. Syracuse, what can we learn?)
How have you engaged with your students? (Have you released statements, reached out to Bonners, etc.) What is the pulse of your Bonner program?
What has your institution done as a whole? (Not just centers for community engagement)
Do your institutions have statements of commitment to inclusivity and diversity in their missions? How does your institution uphold those values?
What can the Bonner Foundation do to support you?

Taking Action

Here are some recommended links and places to take action.

Donate to Support Victims and Their Families

Visit https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#victims, which includes links to donate to:

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, has started a GoFundMe to assist his family in their time of grief and need.

George Floyd’s Sister’s Fund

Floyd’s sister Bridgett Floyd is raising money to help support George's daughter Gianna.

Ahmaud Arbery Fund
Regis Korchinski Fund
Jamee Johnson Fund
Destiny Harrison Funeral Fund
Eric Rosalia Fund
Belly Mujinga Fund
Dion Johnson Fund
Aaron James Fund
Tony McDade Fund
Healing For Darnella
Destiny’s Dream Scholarship
James Scurlock Fund
Support For Leslie Fund
Trever Belle Fund

Donate to Organizations

#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. DONATE HERE
The Minnesota Freedom Fund, a grassroots organization currently working with the National Lawyers Guild and the Legal Rights Center, will use donations to bail out arrested protestors and to supply those on the field. DONATE HERE
Reclaim the Block, a grassroots organization based in Minneapolis, will use funds to address community needs.DONATE HERE
Black Visions Collective, which is based in Minnesota, focuses its work on transformative justice in the state. DONATE HERE
North Star Health Collective is a group of street medics, radical health organizers, and community health trainers based in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and will use funds for gear and medical supplies on the field. DONATE HERE
Organizers in Louisville, Kentucky–the city that Breonna Taylor lived in–have created a community bail fund for protestors. DONATE HERE
Unicorn Riot, a non-profit media organization is dedicated to fair, on-the-ground reporting on civil disobedience, police brutality and white supremacy. Be thoughtful about sharing images of police brutality. These graphics may be personally traumatizing to watch for Black and brown individuals. DONATE HERE
The Legal Rights Center, which is based in Minnesota provides criminal defense and restorative justice services to low-income people, in particular people of color. Clients are never charged for firm services. DONATE HERE
National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) is a nonprofit organization, created to protect the human and civil rights of individuals in their encounters with law enforcement and detention facility personnel. The central mission of NPAP is to promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution and the laws of the United States. It works toeducate and inform the public about issues relating to police misconduct, provide information resources for non-profit and community groups who work with victims of police abuse, support legislative reform efforts aimed at raising the level of police accountability, and create a forum for legal professionals and community organizations to come together and creatively work to end police misconduct. DONATE HERE
CLICK HERE to see a running list of major organizations by state that need support right now.

Donate Your Time

This video project was created to offer people a way to contribute to #blacklivesmatter without having any actual money or going out to protest themselves. Investing in our future can be difficult for young people, so 100% of the advertisement revenue this video makes through AdSense will be donated to the associations that offer protester bail funds, help pay for family funerals, and advocacy listed in the beginning of the video. You could help by watching the video and sharing it with others.

Sign Petitions

Color of Change's petition demands that Frey block the involved officers from receiving their pensions and ban them from being able to become police officers again, as well as demands that Freeman charge the officers with murder. You can also text "FLOYD" to 55156 to sign the petition.
This PETITION on change.org website intends to reach the attention of Mayor Jacob Frey and county attorney Mike Freeman to beg to have the officers involved in this disgusting situation fired and for charges to be filed immediately.
To sign other petitions, CLICK HERE.

Contact Public Officials in Minneapolis and Other Areas

Contact Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to demand justice. You can call his office at 612-673-2100.REACH OUT HERE or submit your concern using this FORM.
Demand County Attorney Mike Freeman charge the officers with murder by calling him at 612-348-5550

Support Social Action Campaigns

Black Lives Matter Defund the Police Campaign

#DefundThePolice https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/ Enough is enough. Our pain, our cries, and our need to be seen and heard resonate throughout this entire country. We demand acknowledgment and accountability for the devaluation and dehumanization of Black life at the hands of the police. We call for radical, sustainable solutions that affirm the prosperity of Black lives.