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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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Dartmouth is in the process of consulting with student, faculty and staff representatives across campus to share and obtain feedback on its draft United Sexual Misconduct Policy and Procedures. Development of the Unified Policy is being led by the Office of the General Counsel in coordination with academic, departmental and student leaders.

Dartmouth has undertaken this inclusive and exhaustive process with the deliberate aim of ensuring that all groups that will be impacted by the new policy have ample opportunity to weigh in on it prior to its adoption and to shape it in a way that adequately addresses the needs and concerns of all stakeholders.

Faculty from each school – Arts & Sciences, Tuck, Thayer, Geisel and Guarini – have been given the opportunity to review and discuss the draft policy and offer feedback through the relevant Committee structures. Students, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, are also being asked for comment on the draft policy in various forums – undergraduates primarily through in-person meetings with and hosted by the Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault and Student Assembly, and graduate and professional students directly. At the same time, Human Resources has been actively involved in the development of the policy from staff perspective.

These discussions are ongoing as revisions to the policy based on feedback from our constituents are incorporated. Relevant Faculty votes are expected to take place in the Spring of 2019.

As part of the Campus Climate and Culture Initiative (C3I) announced by President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 on Jan. 3, the College has launched an online training program called “Bridges: Building a Supportive Community,” a mandatory Title IX sexual violence prevention course for all Dartmouth faculty, staff, and post-doctoral scholars. “This training will provide the campus with a common language and a common baseline for understanding these issues,” says Kristi Clemens, Dartmouth’s Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer. “Then we can talk about the bigger culture and climate issues that might be happening on our campus.”

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The new Campus Climate and Culture Initiative (C3I) will be a topic of discussion at  Executive Vice President Rick Mills’ Jan. 16 town hall meeting. Mills will host Kristi Clemens, Title IX Coordinator and Clery Act Compliance Officer, for discussions and question-and-answer sessions with the audience. The event, part of Mills’ regular town hall meetings for the Dartmouth community, starts at noon on Jan. 16, in Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The event is open to the public. Mills has invited Clemens to talk about C3I and new mandatory online sexual violence prevention training for all faculty, staff, post-doctoral scholars, and graduate and professional students.

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Dartmouth today announced the creation of the Campus Climate and Culture Initiative (C3I), a comprehensive set of actions aimed at creating a learning environment free from sexual harassment and the abuse of power. In an email, President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 and eight senior leaders informed the Dartmouth community about the plan, the third pillar in a set of initiatives established to create a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable environment for all students, faculty, and staff.

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Dartmouth will unveil a plan to build on the work College officials have done to prevent and address sexual assault, President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 wrote in an email to the College community on Dec. 12. President Hanlon said the new program will be a comprehensive plan that will build on progress made through the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative begun in 2015 and the Inclusive Excellence effort, which started in 2016.

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