In recent years Dartmouth has been engaged in a trio of institution-wide initiatives aimed at creating a more welcoming, inclusive, and equitable campus environment for faculty, students, and staff. In 2020, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity (IDE) was reimagined and charged with overseeing the three initiatives as well as compliance related to civil rights.
IDE, which was elevated to report to the Office of the President, has two primary areas of work—diversity and inclusion, and equity and compliance. Those working in the diversity and inclusion arm of IDE have spent the past six months reviewing the three major initiatives. Moving Dartmouth Forward (MDF), launched in 2015, comprises a series of measures aimed at reducing high-risk behavior and making the campus safer and more inclusive. A year later, the Inclusive Excellence (IE) initiative was announced to focus on expanding diversity and inclusion among staff, faculty, and students. Most recently, 2019 saw the creation of the Campus Climate and Culture Initiative (C3I), which centered on preventing sexual harassment and the abuse of power.
“In the past several years, Dartmouth has made an intentional, multi-pronged, and increasingly progressive commitment toward creating a more inclusive community for faculty, students, and staff,” says Senior Vice President and Senior Diversity Officer Shontay Delalue, who joined Dartmouth in 2021 after President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 elevated IDE.
Among Delalue’s first priorities has been a review of the progress made through MDF, IE, and C3I, to determine how Dartmouth can build on its accomplishments to create a unified, institutional strategic plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The results of the review are contained in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity Strategic Initiatives Report and show that a majority of the goals of all three initiatives have been accomplished.
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