Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative (C.A.R.E.)
About C.A.R.E.
Mission
Our mission is to build a lasting anti-racist university and community.
Goals
We aim to enhance campus/community climate and promote equitable outcomes with the following actions:
- Examine, critique, and challenge the unequal distribution of power and privilege at SCSU and within the local community through education, connection, and artistic expression.
- Build and sustain a culturally fluent educational system.
- Promote and preserve culturally respectful living and working environments that value the intersectional richness of each group in an antiracist community.
- Distinguish multicultural awareness, competency, and antiracist frameworks.
- Provide strategies and training that recognize intersectional ethnic/racial prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, historical contributions, and emergent forms of liberation from these groups.
- Dismantle institutional racism and structural inequities that harm majority populations and populations of color.
Our Strategic Plan
Intentional Anti-Racist Curriculum / Pedagogy
- Global academic focus with equal emphasis on Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Indigenous people.
- Support for racial issues and diversity courses in General Education
- CARE Understanding Racism Workshops available to campus and greater community
Intentional & Accountable Anti-Racist Community Engagement
- Campus and community anti-racist leadership council
- More student & community members of underrepresented and historically underserved groups involved in leadership roles
- CARE + Anti-Racist efforts + President’s Council = ONE EFFORT
- Regular meetings with people from underrepresented and historically underserved groups in community and advisory capacity for the University
- University & Community united in Anti-Racism efforts
- Working groups to address specific problem areas
- More people from underrepresented and historically underserved communities active in local school districts
Affirmative Action Practices
- Effective and supportive Affirmative Action office
- Every hiring committee trained and has a significant number of people from underrepresented and historically underserved groups participating
- University effort to have a critical mass of people from underrepresented and historically underserved groups in all colleges, units and departments.
Anti-Racist Accountability
- CARE initiative is fully financially supported and has a core membership of representative from across the campus
- Respectful, accountable interactions between CARE team members
- Effective and valued CARE leadership team
- CARE strategic plan + University strategic plan = ONE PLAN
- Student Government, Faculty Senate and other campus units involved with CARE team and implementing goals
Supportive Environment for Students of Color
- SCSU recruiting underrepresented and historically underserved students from district 742
- Underrepresented and historically underserved students graduating at the same rate as white students
- Enrollment of underrepresented and underserved students increase to 15%
- Increased satisfaction of underrepresented and historically underserved students demonstrated by increased applications from underrepresented and historically underserved students.
Supportive Environment for Employees of Color
- New employees of underrepresented and historically underserved groups are well supported and retained
- Develop a system that promotes anti-racism work in Probation, Evaluation, Promotion and Tenure process
- Increased satisfaction of underrepresented and historically underserved people demonstrated by increased applications from underrepresented and historically underserved people
No Overt Racism
- No racist remarks made
- No American Indian mascots seen
Anti-Racist Community Building
- Children of color playing on the banks of the Mississippi
- Observed positive interaction across Color lines
- Offices, Services where we see diverse people