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The issue
What is Campus Climate?

Q&A with Provost Spear

Campus Climate Update


What can you do?
Days of Listening and Discovery

Day of Listening for Students (Oct. 28)

Tools you can use

Ideas for your own workplace

Campus resources

Feedback

UW-Madison campus climate inventory


Background/Resources

Plan 2008
(Campus diversity plan)

Diversity Web (Student Affairs)

Climate survey and initiatives at other campuses

Annotated bibliography

Student Day of Listening and Discovery

Table Wishes

(10/28/03)

  1. Online real time campus wide calendar.

  2. More diversity (students, faculty, staff, programming, curriculum) so that the campus community will begin to take action on issues of social justice and diversity both during and after their time on campus; a commitment to admitting and hiring a more diverse community for our campus.

  3. Administration would listen to students needs to form more small learning communities (FIG's, etc.) that incorporate diversity and provide a welcoming environment. These small communities would also transfer a sense of belonging to the larger campus community.

  4. More small classes.

  5. To have students be an integral part in reviewing the first years of plan 2008 and creating the second phase so that such diversity components as having an English department with integral curriculum (not white male centered), programs that help integrate the students, recruitment, and a broader differentiation of diversity including the integration of "class" and LGBT issues with racial ethnic can be written into this plan with accountability as a main component.

  6. Job descriptions posted on net in order to inform possible "customer" what to expect.

  7. We wish diversity on campus not be segregated; initial experiences to be diverse, helpful and knowledgeable to begin a positive relationship; and we wish disagreement, which are encouraged, stay theoretical and not become personally slanted.

  8. Knowing more people in a more meaningful way beginning with a climate of personal acknowledgement through smiles, hellos, and eye contact.

  9. Have more opportunities for students to express their voices, publicize those opportunities more and increase administrative accountability to student ideas expressed at those events.

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