Define Your Vision and Commitment

Define Your Vision and Commitment

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You need this if you want to: Recognize the importance of DEI in your organization’s work and integrate DEI into your vision, mission and core values.

Key activities by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Conduct workshops or trainings to help board, senior leaders and team build shared understanding of DEI, enable reflection, and create resolve to deepen DEI across the organization and its work.
  • Review existing vision and mission statements and core values, and revise them to incorporate a commitment to DEI. Adopt clear definitions of DEI and develop a statement articulating its benefits to the organization.

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Assess Your Organization

Assess Your Organization

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You need this if you want to: Collect and analyze data to identify gaps and help prioritize action.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Assess the state of diversity, equity and inclusion across your organization, including your strategies, culture, systems, policies and practices.
  • Gather quantitative and qualitative data on the state of DEI through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and/or reviews of student data, organizational data and artifacts.
  • Analyze data and potentially benchmark results against other organizations to identify strengths and gaps.

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Develop and Resource Your Strategy

Develop and Resource Your Strategy

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You need this if you want to: Identify a set of goals, articulate a clear strategy to infuse DEI across the organization, and map out actions and resources needed for successful implementation. 

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Based on DEI assessment <add link to project>, identify and prioritize a set of actions your organization can take to build on strengths and address gaps.
  • Engage with board, leadership, staff and external stakeholders, as appropriate, to establish clear DEI goals.
  • Develop an implementation plan to achieve goals, including structures to further DEI work within the organization (e.g., designated person/committee to “own” DEI work).
  • Develop a budget to identify and allocate necessary resources.
  • Identify metrics and timeline to measure and track progress.

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Hold Yourself Accountable

Hold Yourself Accountable

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You need this if you want to: Identify metrics, track progress, and use data to inform action and ensure accountability.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

  • Identify metrics (e.g., race, ethnicity, socio-economic data for applicants, staff, leadership, board, etc.; promotions and compensation; staff experience of inclusiveness of culture) to track progress and develop time-bound goals.
  • Design and implement systems and processes to collect data and analyze it in a disaggregated way.
  • Determine how the data and analysis will be shared (e.g., format, frequency, audience) and used internally and externally to inform action and create accountability.

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