L&AD: Community & Belonging
Goal
F&M will center community and belonging as institutional values, transforming its culture to create a safe, welcoming, and equitable community in which all students, employees, and alumni will feel a sense of belonging and be heard.
Objectives
- Establish and embed ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion education and training
throughout the campus community.
- Establish expectations for, and infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion principles
and practices into, the recruitment, hiring, professional development, and assessment,
and retention of faculty and professional staff.
- Infuse diversity, equity, inclusion, and their intersections into the curriculum through
courses, a commitment to interdisciplinarity, and increased breadth in the academic
experience.
- Ensure that the College’s methods of teaching and learning become progressively more
inclusive of and responsive to the full diversity of students, and broaden our definition
of academic success.
- Increase resources, spaces, and support services, and implement equitable policies
and practices that welcome, affirm, celebrate, and support F&M’s diverse student,
staff, and faculty communities.
- Welcome and harness the talent and expertise of professional staff in fulfilling the
College’s mission and goals.
- Recognize and advance racial healing, reconciliation, and social justice as an institution.