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Creating and sustaining a more inclusive campus for all members of our community remains the north star of our efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at CU Boulder. However, advancing DEI is not the activity or responsibility of one office or campus group—but rather the entire campus community. To fulfill our vision for becoming a more diverse and inclusive community, we must work together with a common sense of purpose.

While the Inclusion, Diversity and Excellence in Academics (IDEA) Plan has provided a strong foundation for articulating key areas of need on our campus, naming a refined set of campus goals and priorities reflective of the plan is a next step toward organizing ourselves for action. Today, we’d like to share five DEI goals inspired by the plan that will provide us with a framework for incorporating DEI into all aspects of our work. Broadly, the goals address:

• Employee skills and development
• Student achievement outcomes
• Community building
• Employee recruitment outcomes
• Preparing students to participate in a diverse democracy

These goals are the outcome of a collaborative discussion between Senior Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Sonia DeLuca Fernández and members of the IDEA Council, who agreed that a common set of goals would provide the campus with additional guidance, help us bridge challenges, and align our efforts more effectively and powerfully. Crafted intentionally to consider and honor the current work and unique contexts of campus units, the goals are meant to be broad, unit-focused, flexible and formative.

We support this framework for moving forward and believe we must embed these priorities in all of our activities—but especially in support of people. In particular, these priorities should form the foundation of hiring, promotion, teaching, research and service, and how we set expectations and accountability.

Cross-collaboration and mutual support are critical to our success as a campus community, and we want to acknowledge and thank the academic and administrative units that are already advancing justice and DEI in their spaces and the IDEA Council for its ongoing work to prioritize the recommendations in the IDEA Plan. As we move forward, it will be important to understand the impact of ongoing work and how it supports our next steps.

The five goals are but a part of a broader plan to support campus units in the development and implementation of outcomes, action plans and impact assessments. Informing our collective work will be recommendations from the IDEA Council, the Campus Culture Survey results, Buff Undergraduate Success and other campus DEI-focused initiatives and resources.

Creating change in our behavior and examining new ways of achieving our common goals are critical to advancing DEI on our campus, and these five DEI goals provide a helpful framework for how we will work together to achieve positive outcomes with meaningful impacts.

Sincerely,

Philip DiStefano
Chancellor

Russell Moore
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

Patrick O’Rourke
COO and Executive Vice Chancellor