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- Many campuses, especially when it comes to D&I
and, you know, it's such a buzz term right now,
this whole diversity/inclusion thing,
which, I mean, it's great.
I mean, I'm glad that folks are starting
to pay attention to this more because the issues aren't new.
We've been talking about the same issues
for probably a hundred years now, right,
when it comes to the achievement gap
and the challenges that we're seeing in our communities
around education and higher education,
but I think that our campuses tend to focus on,
how do we recruit them, how do we get more and more here,
how do we do that,
but there's never a retention strategy.
It has to be a part of everything that you do.
It transcends department.
So it can't just be the multicultural office
or the D&I office,
or we can go and see the VP of Diversity/Inclusion,
and then, we're good.
That's not how this works, right?
Because that one person or that one office
is not in that classroom with that student
who has a racist faculty member.
But what we can do is,
I think, what we're trying to do is recognize
that there are structural issues
that are gonna take some time to address,
but then how do we equip our students and our team
with the tools to navigate
the structures that exist already?
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