Goal
LMU will transform its academic and student life experience to embrace anti-oppressive curricular, co-curricular, and pedagogical practices, grounded in a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as defining features of an LMU education.
Objective 1
Actualize commitments to inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism across undergraduate and graduate students’ curricular and co-curricular experiences.
| Action Item | Last Updated | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Review and revise core curriculum and major/minor curricula to directly address racism and other forms of oppression and exclusion, and to increase awareness and engagement with the resulting impacts on academic disciplines, cultural presuppositions, and social structures. | Summer 2024 | Complete and ongoing |
| Review and enhance professional development strategies that support and encourage inclusive pedagogies (for example, universal design for learning (UDL), anti-oppressive teaching and pedagogical practices, etc.) that enhance educational effectiveness for all learners, including persons with disabilities. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Support faculty research/creative work and faculty-student academic mentoring in areas related to anti-racism and DEI-oriented learning. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Design a plan to increase coordinated curricular/co-curricular engagement with challenging issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion, including consideration of an anti-racism engaged learning-experience requirement. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Support student life programs and initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (for example, restorative justice practices). | Summer 2024 | In progress |
Objective 2
Increase successful recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, and administrative leaders from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups who can contribute directly to the initiative’s curricular and co-curricular aims.
| Action Item | Last Updated | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Set clear expectations and metrics for success in recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, and administrative leaders from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups, and align hiring practices and faculty/staff support structures to ensure success. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| For faculty, recognize and reward forms of teaching, research, and service that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, including curriculum transformation and recognition of "informal/invisible" service; for staff, recognized DEI-related service that contributes to co-curricular educational objectives as a valued element of performance reviews. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Review departmental tenure and promotion standards and merit review processes for faculty and staff and propose revised standards that recognize a broad range of expressions of excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service in ways that are inclusive and academically sound. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Examine formal and informal structures for mentoring, support, and thriving of faculty and educational staff, and devise a plan to improve support structures, as appropriate to each area, throughout their careers. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Pursue fundraising opportunities for initiatives that contribute to diversifying the faculty. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
Objective 3
Increase successful recruitment and retention of students from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups.
| Action Item | Last Updated | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Set clear expectations for success in student recruitment and retention for historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Strengthen pathways and infrastructure for recruiting students from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups to attend LMU. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Increase funding to support and develop curricular and co-curricular programs and initiatives that positively impact the student experience, retention, persistence, and graduation of students from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Evaluate current access to high-impact learning opportunities such as study abroad, internships, and undergraduate research, and devise a plan that increases access for historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
| Pursue fundraising opportunities for scholarships that support the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body. | Summer 2024 | In progress |
More Information
For more information about the Learning for Justice, Inclusion, and Transformation Initiative, please contact Emelyn dela Pena, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, at Emelyn.delaPena@lmu.edu.