Creating Inclusive and Equitable Campus Environments for Educators to Support Student Success

Abstract

Creating and supporting a diverse student body has been a priority for many institutions, but higher education continues to struggle with making significant progress in hiring, supporting, and retaining a diverse body of educators, including faculty, student affairs staff, librarians, and other student-facing staff. As plans to deliberately tear down diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) gain momentum, news reports are rife with stories of educator burnout, compassion fatigue, workplace stress, discrimination, and inequity. This session will comprise several discussions stitched together with qualitative and quantitative results from a large-scale, multi-institution study and conceptual framework of environments that support diverse educators. Participants will leave the session with a framing of environmental issues that educators face, ideas for how to assess the environments of their educators, a reminder that a lot of teaching and learning happens beyond our classrooms, and suggestions from other attendees about their efforts to support and retain diverse educators.