Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 33.18
Liaison Doug Oetter
Submission Date April 4, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Georgia College & State University
PA-4: Diversity and Equity Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Doug Oetter
Professor
History and Geography
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Does the institution have a diversity and equity committee, office, and/or officer tasked by the administration or governing body to advise on and implement policies, programs, and trainings related to diversity and equity on campus?:
Yes

Does the committee, office and/or officer focus on one or both of the following?:
Yes or No
Student diversity and equity Yes
Employee diversity and equity Yes

A brief description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer, including purview and activities:

The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity provides institutional leadership on all matters of diversity and equity, under the auspices of the Office of The President and the President's Commission on Diversity.

Our prevention work serves to ensure that agents of the university do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other irrelevant non-bona fide qualification in the administration of educational and employment programs, or any other activity administered by the university.

Georgia College is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for all and strives to create a campus environment, which understands, fosters, and embraces the value of diversity.


The full-time equivalent of people employed in the diversity and equity office:
3

The website URL where information about the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer is available:
Does the institution make cultural competence trainings and activities available to all members of the following groups?:
Yes or No
Students Yes
Staff Yes
Faculty Yes
Administrators Yes

A brief description of the cultural competence trainings and activities:

We have created diversity leadership teams in most department of the school to insure the implementation of our diversity plan. The primary goals of the leadership groups is to promote inclusive excellence through the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body and workforce and the creation of a campus climate that promotes inclusive excellence.

We also have Diversity Peer Educators which is a student organization that utilizes group facilitation to educate peers on the Georgia College campus about issues of diversity through various workshops and presentations throughout the duration of the school year. The program's intent is to make our campus not only more inclusive, but to also improve our campus climate.


The website URL where information about the cultural competence trainings is available:
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