A Coalition through Community

Goal 1: Expand communication and collaboration of recruitment, retention, and persistence efforts among student-facing University offices to support belongingness and success within the WCU community.

Goal 2: Ensure that our student-centered approach extends to recruitment, admission, and pre-enrollment activities in ways that welcome, affirm, and sustain prospective student identities.

Goal 1: Seek the perspectives and experiences of students, faculty and staff intentionality to create a workplace and learning environment that enables everyone to thrive and contribute to a culture of belongingness.

Goal 2: Strengthen our culture of belongingness by building trusting relationships, encouraging open interpersonal communication, and recognizing the different perspectives and experiences of our broadly diverse community so that all members feel valued and accepted in their work and learning.

Goal 1: Establish systems of support for faculty and staff professionals to identify, review, and enact effective pedagogical practices and equitable student engagement for the purpose of ensuring student success.

Goal 2: Establish reward mechanisms, for participation on a voluntary basis, that provide incentives (e.g., departmental grants, DCRD enhancement3, research support, university recognition), for faculty and staff professionals to infuse DEIB as an intentional element of their scholarship, creative activities, and pedagogy, in ways that contribute to improved student learning outcomes and to teaching and learning.

Goal 1: Operationalize WCU’s commitment to the concepts/principles of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Inclusive Excellence through its systems, policies, and practices.

Goal 2: Ensure accessibility, inclusion, and belongingness are aspects that are considered in managing our physical spaces (facilities and grounds) for all stakeholders to use without barriers.

Goal 3: Expand accreditation and professional development experiences for WCU law enforcement officers to enhance culturally- responsive policing.

Goal 1: Identify new and leverage existing engagement points between WCU and local childcare and public-school systems to return benefit to the diverse and underserved communities that work with the University

Goal 2: Identify new and strengthen existing engagement opportunities between WCU and diverse and underserved communities to provide evidence-based resources that improve health and well-being.