DIVERSITY & INCLUSION ACTION PLAN (DIAP)
Our Vision:
We envision a learning environment at the CRC where all students regardless of race, gender expression, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, or physical, emotional, learning ability, feel supported, thrive, and can develop their capacities to fully engage with Brown's Open Curriculum and with their own unique learning process, in preparing to be scholars, leaders and citizens in our own communities and of the world.
At the end of the year, CRC staffers made suggestions for our future work:
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"Maybe more programs should hold hours off-site to increase visibility and accessibility? I think more storytelling from diverse perspectives would be good, too."
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"I think we should focus on building relationships with more people who might not already know the CRC -- this might include more public exposure, as well as working specifically with other on-campus groups...."
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"I think our focus for striving to reach the DIAP should be to just generally increase the visibility of our peer advisors on campus. By this, I mean that we should staff more in places like the Ratty or the Blue Room, etc. ... I still feel like we may be missing many people who would really benefit from the CRC because they don't actually go to the centers we partner with for whatever reason. ... Something that I also think is really important, that we mostly do, is having coordinators who have lived experience with difficult topics and/or are generally aware and mindful of the privileges they have. Overall, I feel like targeting a general audience is one of the best ways to actually further our goals towards diversity, inclusion and equity."
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"... one of the difficulties of being more inclusive is not knowing who is being excluded. As we are all limited in our scope of Brown's population, I think that perhaps one specific thing that might be relevant and/or helpful for some programs is to go to different spaces on campus to bring more visibility to, and hopefully more involvement with, the CRC. Sometimes I feel that a lot of people that come into the CRC during the middle of the semester were referred to the CRC through friends or peers, so perhaps branching out and physically welcoming people who are involved in different groups or places on campus may be helpful?"
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"One idea would be to better build collaborations between the CRC and other centers, not only individual coordinators/program areas collaborator, but a CRC-wide collaboration. Maybe an event near the beginning of the semester to welcome freshman, or something during mid-terms or finals as a study break, etc."
