DEI Goal 3 Strategy A: We can meet our diversity, equity, inclusion, and collaboration goal if we enhance OneIT, unit, and individual accountability for achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion-related outcomes.

Critical Task 1: Ensure DEI literacy is an expectation of leadership in OneIT.

Tactics–Action Items:

• Require participation in BUILD training and certification for all IT leadership and supervisors.
• Include DEI efforts and training in assessment for leadership/promotional opportunities.

Indicators of Success:

• Number of leadership staff members that have completed BUILD training.
• Increase of DEI-related activities in IT roadmaps and success rate for those items.

Critical Task 2: Communicate that DEI is a part of everyone’s job and ensure that community members are equipped to be effective at promoting, modeling, and implementing DEI core values.

Tactics–Action Items:

• Articulate expectations regarding DEI efforts and participation in performance reviews and goal setting.
• Train staff so they are equipped and confident in working across teams of people with diverse backgrounds, needs, and abilities.

Indicators of Success:

• Number of staff participating in professional development and training related to DEI.
• Establish baseline and targets for ratings of staff in core competency.

DEI Goal 3 Strategy B: We can meet our diversity, equity, inclusion, and collaboration goal if we facilitate the increased use of data to inform campus-wide DEI-related decision-making.

Critical Task 1: Empower data-informed decision-making in support of institutional DEI goals through participation in the collection, analysis, and distribution of data.

Tactics–Action Items:

• Complete Human Resources analytics solutions including data marts and visualizations related to DEI metrics.
• Develop DEI analytic and reporting solutions to inform student success efforts, e.g. retention strategies for students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.
• Participate in the DEI Data Coordinators and Analytics working groups.

Indicators of Success:

• Increased DEI data and analytics solutions available for campus.
• Increased campus adoption of DEI data and analytics solutions.
• Increased campus DEI data awareness and literacy.

Critical Task 2: Gather and share DEI data-informed decision-making best practices.

Tactics–Action Items:

• Work with campus partners to collect and share best practices.
• Understand and educate campus constituents on the impact of bias in data collection and analysis.
• Develop a utilization aid that explains how to find and effectively utilize relevant DEI data across all dashboards.
• Develop common data definitions and practices for gathering and reporting DEI information.

Indicators of Success:

• Establish baseline and target for number of organizations and units utilizing standard reports and data.