Encourage and support faculty efforts to design curricula to be inclusive of cross-cultural/BIPOC and LGBTQ authors/thinkers, and non-western ways of knowing*.

*Standard Faculty Senate procedures for curricular review and approval will be followed when required.

Owners/Accountable Party

• Faculty Senate

Near-term Actions

• Determine a viable path for promoting faculty practices that result in curricula that is inclusive of various perspectives
• Promote inclusion of land acknowledgements in syllabi or Moodle pages.
• Develop and offer resources on best practices

Future Actions

• Explore online graduate certificate options for sharing across the MUS and Western Regional Graduate Programs (e.g., AAST, LGBTIQ+)
• Work with Native American Studies on a Masters-level degree and to develop a “strand” in Native American Studies within the Doctoral Interdisciplinary Studies program

Completed and Ongoing Actions

• Continue through the Office of Organizational Learning and Development offerings focused on inclusive pedagogy
• Developed Faculty Senate approved syllabi guidelines that includes information about DEI syllabi statements.