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

  1. Establish and embed ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion education and training throughout the campus community. 

  2. 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.

  3. Infuse diversity, equity, inclusion, and their intersections into the curriculum through courses, a commitment to interdisciplinarity, and increased breadth in the academic experience.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Welcome and harness the talent and expertise of professional staff in fulfilling the College’s mission and goals.

  7. Recognize and advance racial healing, reconciliation, and social justice as an institution.