The Plan in the Context of the Planning
Process
 Mission Statement: The University of
Scranton
Vision
Statement
Strategic Plan:
Definitions and Assumption
Executive Summary of Ten Themes
The Service of
Faith and the Promotion of Justice
The
Environment for Learning
Faculty
Theme
Diversity
& Globalization
The University
and The Community
Financial
Responsibility
Enrollment
Management
Technology
Governance
Public
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diversity and globalization theme
DIVERSITY
& GLOBALIZATION THEME
In fulfillment of
its mission as a Catholic and Jesuit institution, The University of Scranton
will create a fully integrated campus environment that is marked by ethnic and
racial diversity and that actively fosters within its students, faculty and
staff an understanding of and respect for issues of gender and for cultures
other than their own.
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Goal
A Welcoming Community: The
University will increase its initiatives to heighten the awareness,
appreciation and sensitivity of faculty, staff, and students to issues of
gender and to cultures other than their own.
Objectives
- Expand diversity and gender awareness and training
programs for faculty, staff, and students. See Financial
Responsibility Goal V, Objective C.
- Identify opportunities to acknowledge and to
celebrate diverse cultures.
- Develop academic and co-curricular programs to
foster an understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures.
- Continue to provide faculty development
opportunities that will lead to curricular initiatives to meet diversity goals.
- Expand opportunities outside the classroom for
students to increase their understanding of cultures other than their own, both
in the setting of the United States and in the world.
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II.
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Goal
A Richly Diverse Community: The University
commits itself to the recruitment of a faculty, staff and student body that is
ethnically and racially diverse, so as to more accurately reflect the world in
which its students will live and work. See The Service of Faith and
the Promotion of Justice Goal VI, Objective A.
Objectives
- Develop and implement plans to recruit diverse
faculty, staff and students. See Enrollment Management Goal I,
Objective A5.
- Better coordinate and expand support mechanisms to
assist in the retention of diverse students, faculty and staff. See
Enrollment Management Goal IVA, and Environment for Learning Goal II, Objective
B.
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Goal
A Commitment to Global Education: The
University will develop a comprehensive approach to global education, including
internationally oriented programs, foreign study programs, and the recruitment
and retention of international students and faculty.
Objectives
- Establish a mechanism to coordinate international
activities across divisional lines to ensure the broad awareness and
accessibility of such programs.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive international
recruitment and retention program for faculty and students. See
Enrollment Management Goal I Objective A3.
- Continue to develop and foster foreign study
programs for students as well as international exchange programs and
international service projects for faculty, staff and students.
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