Strategic Initiative:
Inclusive Excellence
CSU Channel Islands
Inclusive Excellence Action Plan (IEAP) #1
Spr22-Spr23
IEAP Initiatives Proposed/Awarded Spr22-Spr23 | 41 Suggested 16 Proposed | 11 Awarded incl benefits | |
1 | Inclusive Excellence Micro-Course (IEAT 1.1) | $10,000 | $11,916 |
2 | DEI training for all newly hired & existing faculty & staff (IEAT 2.1) | $50,000 | $52,947 |
3 | Mandatory Equity Advocate Training on all hiring committees regardless of position (IEAT 2.2) | $15,000 | $31,989 |
Develop campus-wide policy on Mandatory Equity Advocate Training for all search committees (IEAT 2.3) | $15,000 | ||
4 | Post-Graduate Outcomes Alumni Survey (1- and 5-year) (IEAT 3.2) | $20,000 | $20,000 |
5 | Courageous Conversations: Town Halls & CLCs (for employees and separately for students) (IEAT 4.2) | $70,000 | $87,702 |
— | Alternative Spring Break (IEAT 4.3) | $20,000 | $0 |
6 | Cultural Taxation Guide and Workshops (IEAT 4.7) | $50,000 | $54,790 |
— | Workshops for Development of Curricular and Co-Curricular Mission Statements with DEI Focus (IEAT 5.1) | $15,000 | $0 |
IEAP Initiatives Proposed/Awarded Spr22-Spr23 | 41 Suggested 16 Proposed | 11 Awarded incl benefits | |
— | Workshops for DEI Education in Departments/Programs (IEAT 5.2) | $10,000 | $0 |
7 | Incentivized Funding to Curricular and Co-Curricular Programs for Retention and DEI Development Activities (short- and long-term components) (IEAT 5.7) | $175,000 | $173,732 |
8 | Outreach & recruitment of African American students (IEAT 5.8) | $250,000 | $70,863 |
9 | Block Enrollment, Summer Courses expansion, Increased Student Access (IEAT 6.1) | $60,000 | $30,000 |
10 | Subsidize summer enrollment (IEAT 6.3) | $100,000 | $70,000 |
11 | Build Leadership and Expertise to Guide Cross-Campus DEI Efforts (IEAT 6.5) | $42,500 | $46,061 |
— | Student Systems Software (IEAT 6.8) | $100,000 | $0 |
Total Strategic Initiative Funding for Spring 2022-Spring 2023 | $1,002,500 excluding benefits | $650,000 including benefits | |
IEAT 1: Professional & Leadership Development
Cabinet Champion: Provost Mitch Avila
Cabinet Co-Champion: Interim VPSA Toni DeBoni
Chair: Dean of Extended University, Jill Leafstedt
Communications Lead: Fope Adesina, OTP Budget & Admin
a. Provide professional development for faculty on teaching and research/creative activities |
b. Provide leadership development and mentoring for faculty, staff, and administrators |
c. Provide PD for faculty, staff, and administrators on dismantling racism |
d. Consolidate campus resources, building on existing efforts to advance anti-racist professional development and HSI mission |
e. Mandate implicit bias education for all campus leaders |
IEAT 1 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
| OTP with DAA and DSA | Yes: Channel Your Success- $10K annually 5 yrs for IE Summit | Corresponding Micro-Course | $10,000 proposal FUNDED at $11,916 with benefits |
2. Shared Professional Development Calendar (1/9/5) | DAA with BFA | Yes: DAA and BFA allocation of personnel time. | Will work with TLi, FASE, and HR for shared solution utilizing existing resources | Not proposed for new SI funding |
3. CSU Learn Repository (0/7/7) | BFA with all divisions | Yes: BFA allocation of personnel time while support staff requested through annual budget | Need staff support long-term, not one-time $ need | Not proposed for new SI funding |
4. Chief Diversity Officer (12/3/0) | OTP | | Submit in future GI2025 with recurring $$ | Not proposed for new SI funding |
5. DEI Vision & Rubric for Program Evaluation (8/4/2) | OTP | | PACIE working now to revise Equity Lens Framework; CDO needed in future | Not proposed for new SI funding |
Note: Numbers in parentheses (e.g., 5/3/6) summarize PACIE members’ response re. likely high-impact, medium-impact, and low-impact initiatives on advancing DEI
IEAT 2: Recruit, Hire, and Retain a Diverse Workforce
Cabinet Champion: AVP-BFA Laurie Nichols
Cabinet Co-Champion: Provost Mitch Avila
Chair: President’s Faculty Fellow, LaSonya Davis
Co-Chair: AVPFA Sheila Grant
Communication Lead: Janet Dungca, DAA Admin Specialist
a. Improve tenure density to ensure meaningful mentorship |
b. Review and revise recruitment, hiring, retention, and evaluation policies and practices |
c. Develop a hiring strategy for advancing diversity of faculty, staff, and administrators |
d. Create and post a diversity and equity plan in each division |
e. Implement hiring strategy for advancing diversity of faculty, staff, and administrators |
f. Implement best practices for successful cluster hiring |
g. Create and implement IE-intentional onboarding |
IEAT 2 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
1. DEI training for All newly hired and existing faculty and staff (9/3/2) | BFA and DAA | Yes: Channel Your Success- $20K for training of the trainers and/or stipends e.g. CUE | | $50,000 proposed FUNDED AT $52,947 with benefits) |
2. Mandatory Equity Advocate Training on all hiring committees regardless of position (12/2/0) | DAA and BFA | Yes: Channel Your Success- $2K for staff stipends or staff equity-related conference travel | Will implement as standard expectation; funding for initial implementation | $15,000 proposed FUNDED (see below) |
3. Develop campus-wide policy on Mandatory Equity Advocate Training for all search committees (5/7/2) | DAA and BFA | | Expected to implement as policy; funding for initial implementation | $15,000 #2 and #3 FUNDED at $31,989 with benefits |
4. Develop campus-wide policies that include evidence-based equity-minded hiring practices (8/5/1) | DAA and BFA | Yes: DAA and BFA allocation of personnel time. | To be implemented via assignment to relevant administrators | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 2 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
5. Mission Center Support for Faculty and Staff Development (1/4/9) | DAA | Yes, from OTP | OTP working with DAA on proposal process using similar timeline. | Not proposed for new SI funding |
6. Staff & MPP Hiring Handbook (9/5/0) | BFA | Yes: BFA allocation of personnel time | This is happening as part of the regular and routine work of Human Resources. | Not proposed for new SI funding |
7. Faculty Hiring Handbook (9/5/0) | DAA | Yes: DAA allocation of personnel time | Completion will be coordinated through Faculty Affairs and routinely updated | Not proposed for new SI funding |
8. Incorporate DEI Criteria in Academic Program Mission and Vision Statements, Policies, Courses, etc. (8/2/4) | DAA | Yes, from DAA | DAA will fund using internal one-time funds and tie to program review in future years | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 3: Inward- & Outward-Facing Advancement and Community/Government Relations for DEI
Cabinet Champion: VPUA Nichole Ipach
Cabinet Co-Champion: Interim COS Kaia Tollefson
Chair: AVP Richard LeRoy
Co-Chair: Dean Sue Andrzejewski
a. Continue to advance CI as community resource for IE values/practices |
b. Strengthen cross-divisional partnerships |
c. Increase philanthropic support for Strategic Initiatives Increase philanthropic support for scholarships |
d. Assess perception of CI's contributions to economic vitality, social mobility and engaged citizenship |
e. Fund visual art displays and namings of buildings, programs, scholarships to represent DEI |
f. Provide physical spaces for belonging, building community |
g. Ensure that honorary degrees honor diversity |
IEAT 3 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
1. Perception Survey and Analysis and Implemented Integrated Marketing Communication Plan (IMCP) (4/5/5) | OTP | Yes | Perception Survey funded as initial step in implementing the IMCP | Not proposed for new SI funding |
2. Post-Graduate Outcomes Alumni Survey (1- and 5-year) (2/6/6) | DUA with OTP | | | $20,000 proposed FUNDED AT $20,000 |
3. Scholarship Data Review and Longitudinal Scholarship Data Review (5/7/2) | DUA with OTP | Yes: DUA allocation of personnel time; OTP budget funds DIR-CDO salary | Already underway. This initiative will be further supported with hire of DIR-CDO. | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 3 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
4. Provide Physical Space to Build Community:�(a) Student Union Courtyard �(b) Environmental Assessment�(c) Safe Space and Ally Trainings�(d) Undocumented Student Support (8/3/3) | BFA with DSA, DAA, DUA | Yes | Student Union Courtyard requested through HEERF funds and ASI Reserves. � Affinity spaces are being pursued through a parallel process (i.e., Mackenzie Scott, Ethnic Studies funds) | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 4: Realize a Campus Culture of Inclusive Excellence
Cabinet Champion & Co-Chair: Interim COS Kaia Tollefson
Cabinet Co-Champion: President Rich Yao
Chair: ED of Equity & Inclusion Becca Lawrence
Communication Lead: Mary McDonnell, OTP Support Analyst
a. Build shared understanding of "inclusive excellence" |
b. Adopt and use IE shared definitions |
c. Leverage a biennial climate survey to enhance culture |
d. Create and provide structured opportunities for courageous conversations |
e. Recognize and celebrate DEI accomplishments and contributions |
f. Evaluate and ameliorate cultural taxation |
g. Cultivate a campus culture of communication, accountability, transparency, clarity |
h. Align Mission Centers' and FSAs' mission statements, strategic plans with IE values |
i. Support/celebrate faculty and campus events and activities that raise awareness of CI's role in racial and social injustice |
IEAT 4 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
1. Campus Climate Survey & Affirmative Action Plan Synthesis, Gap Analysis, and Campus Plan for Workforce Diversity (9/4/2) | BFA and OTP | | Will occur through Title IX Office following the “Courageous Conversations: CLCs and Town Halls” initiative | Not proposed for new SI funding |
2. Courageous Conversations: Town Halls & CLCs (for employees and separately for students) (9/3/2) | OTP and BFA | | | $70,000 proposed FUNDED AT $87,702 with benefits |
3. Alternative Spring Break (0/5/9) | DAA | | In collaboration with CCE | $20,000 proposed NOT FUNDED |
4. Experimental College (4/6/4) | DAA | Costs associated with Instruction can come from DAA instructional resources | Funding source already exists; will implement through Call for Proposals | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 4 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
5. Students in Solidarity Council (1/9/4) | DSA with DAA | Yes | DSA and DAA happy to support this work from their respective positions. This will be covered within divisions. | Not proposed for new SI funding |
6. IEAT Inventories & ELFs Publication (4/6/4) | OTP | Yes: Channel Your Success- $3K for publication printing and design if related to publishing data/increasing access. | Underway through PACIE; will proceed with Channel Your Success support | Not proposed for new SI funding |
7. Cultural Taxation Guide and Workshops (7/6/1) | OTP with BFA | | | $50,000 proposed FUNDED AT $54,790 with benefits |
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IEAT 5: Improve Data-Based Decision Making & Planning Processes
Cabinet Champion: President Rich Yao
Cabinet Co-Champion: Interim VPSA Toni DeBoni
Cabinet Co-Champion: Provost Mitch Avila
Chair: AVP-DSA Dottie Patten
Co-Chair & Communication Lead: Asst Prof Education Carolee Hurtado
a. Review, revise, and develop courses, programs, and co-curricular offerings with IED focus |
b. Ensure cross-divisional and timely access to disaggregated data: institutional student success indicators and GI 2025 equity data |
c. Create a strategic enrollment management and recruitment plan, with delineated strategy for eliminating equity gaps |
d. Review University Police Department policies and practices and increase cultural proficiency, transparency, and accountability |
IEAT 5 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
1. Workshops for Development of Curricular and Co-Curricular Mission Statements with DEI Focus (4/7/3) | DAA with DSA | Yes: Channel Your Success- $15K for external consultant | | $15,000 proposed NOT FUNDED |
2. Workshops for DEI Education in Departments/ Programs (9/4/1) | DAA | Yes: Channel Your Success- $10K for external consultant | Funds are for external consultant | $10,000 proposed NOT FUNDED |
3. Bridging Perspectives Curriculum (3/5/4) | DAA with BFA | Instructional funding already available | Can be pursued through existing processes; watch for Call for Proposals | Not proposed for new SI funding |
4. Dashboard Clean-up & Access Expansion (7/3/3) | OTP | Yes: Channel Your Success- $10K for external consultant if current staff capacity is not sufficient | When hired, DIR-CDO will help lead this work | Not proposed for new SI funding |
5. IR Policy Work (4/6/2) | OTP | | When hired, DIR-CDO will help lead this work | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 5 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
6. Expansion of University Police Department Outreach (1/5/7) | BFA with DSA, DAA | Future Budget Request or Reallocation Divisional Funds | | Not proposed for new SI funding |
7. Incentivized Funding for Academic Programs to Develop Retention & DEI Activities, including co-curricular activities (7/5/0) | DAA with DSA | | | $175,000 proposed FUNDED AT $173,732 with benefits |
8. Scholarship Opportunities for Black Students (8/4/2) | DAA with DSA, DUA | | Initiative expanded to include focused outreach, recruitment, and retention for Black students | $250,000 proposed FUNDED AT $70,863 with benefits |
9. Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) Dashboard Dev. (5/6/2) | BFA with OTP | Future Budget Request | DIR-CDO search is underway | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 6: Facilitate Student Access & Success
Cabinet Champion: Toni DeBoni, Interim VPSA
Cabinet Co-Champion: Mitch Avila, Provost
Chair: Charles Osiris, AVP-DSA
Co-Chair: Brook Masters, Sr. Coordinator SASS
Co-Chair: Monica Rivas, Assoc Dir, Academic Advising
Communication Lead: Andrea Coppinger, Presidential Aide
a. Increase student engagement opportunities for advancing racial and social justice in curricular, co-curricular, and community contexts |
b. Provide direct academic and advising supports to students |
c. Expand student access to courses (summer and winter intercessions, online/hybrid) |
d. Review and revise orientation to ensure students are initiated to CI values, build community/belonging |
e. Build partnerships to expand access to basic needs resources |
IEAT 6 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
1. Block Enrollment, Summer Courses expansion, Increased Student Access (10/3/1) | DAA with DSA | | $$$ requested for support position, with request for perm funding coming separately | $60,000 proposed FUNDED AT $30,000 |
2. New Student Orientation: Eliminate or reduce orientation fees (8/3/3) | DSA | Yes | Submitting through GI 2025 Proposal Process | Not proposed for new SI funding |
3. Subsidize Summer Enrollment (6/2/6) | DAA | | Funds to expand/match existing allocation of $225K from CO. | $100,000 proposed FUNDED AT $70,000 |
4. Basic Needs Awareness and Promotion (8/5/1) | DSA with DAA | Yes | Will cover with recent GI 2025 general fund alloc to Basic Needs Program | Not proposed for new SI funding |
IEAT 6 PROPOSED INITIATIVES | Relevant Division(s) | Are Other Funds Available? | Additional Comments | SI/IEAP Requests and Awarded Amounts |
5. Build Leadership and Expertise to Guide Cross-Campus DEI Efforts (8/4/1) | OTP with all divisions | | | $42,500 proposed FUNDED AT $46,061 with benefits |
6. Student Success Champions (7/3/3) | DAA with DSA | Yes: Channel Your Success- $25K for faculty stipend, possibility to fund students through employment (possibly new SA position) | Fund internally with Channel Your Success support | Not proposed for new SI funding |
7. Create Equitable Cost Structures and Support for Summer Enrollment (6/2/5) | DAA | | Will evaluate after Summer 2022 pilot (IEAT 6, #3 above) | Not proposed for new SI funding |
8. Student Systems Software (4/5/4) | DAA with DSA | | | $100,000 NOT FUNDED VIA SI (ALTERNATIVE SOURCE) |
An IEAT-Informed Synthesis of CSUCI’s DEI Priorities��Framing Question: Will proposed IEAP initiatives address these needs?
Origins of the IEAP Framework (2021)
The IEAP Framework synthesizes and organizes four specific documents authored through the Office of the President:
Six High-Level Goals Emerged:
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From IEAP Framework (Spr-Sum21) �to IEAP #1 (Spr22-Spr23)
DEI Inventory & Gap Analysis (Spr-Sum21)
IEATs: (1) create a cross-divisional inventory of DEI activities and accomplishments in their respective areas; and (2) pilot the PACIE’s Equity Lens Framework (ELF) to identify gaps.
Propose IEAP Activities (F21)
IEATs draft Inclusive Excellence Action Plan (IEAP) initiatives for their area, identifying deliverables, priorities, timelines, and metrics for evaluating success.
Develop IEAP Proposals (F21)
Cabinet: (1) seeks PACIE feedback on proposed IEAP initiatives; (2) identifies which initiatives can be funded within division and which require new $$; (3) develops proposals.
Evaluate, Award & Implement (Sp22-Sp23)
SRPC uses IEAP Rubric to evaluate proposals and recommend funding allocations. Interim President Yao makes awards by February 11, 2022, and CSUCI’s first IEAP is created with a funding period of Spr22-Spr23.
IEATs Proposed IEAP Initiatives (41)
Three critical ideas:
We can’t do everything at once. Sometimes, less really is more. We must ensure that we select the most impactful activities for new funding and/or for reallocation of resources.
We cannot allow ourselves to lose our focus or our energy for this essential work. With the IEAP, we institutionalize the marathon – not the sprint – begun years ago at CI through the work of so many individuals.
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We cannot claim to have achieved anything IEAP-related, yet. But we commit to DEI values and the long-term learning and critical engagement they require. One-time funding ($650K) to address systemic racial and social injustice is insufficient. But with IEAP 1 (Spr22-Spr23), we are on the road to institutionalizing an action-oriented commitment to the values of DEI – with Cabinet-level ownership and accountability.
Inclusive Excellence Action Plan #1
Spring 2022 – Spring 2023
IEAP Proposals: $1,002,500 (excluding employee benefit costs)
Strategic Initiative Funding Available: $650,000
SRPC Deliberations: January 28, February 4