Diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging.
Make Your Ecosystem an Engine of Success — for All
Get a Line of Sight Past High-Profile Initiatives
to See Stakeholders’ Lived Experiences.
Space shapes our experience and behavior. And it’s not just its design — it has to be intentionally scheduled, assigned, and activated.
Move from theory to practice by finding and addressing patterns of inequality in the campus and workplace experience.
Practical solutions.
Abandon anecdote and systematically assess space design, utilization, and the culture surrounding space usage.
Gather data and address disparities among your students — by race-ethnicity, gender, Pell Grant status, transfer status, non-traditional schedule, and other dimensions of interest — in key aspects of the campus experience.
Review academic planning and scheduling practices. Establish an institutional-level strategy of course planning, scheduling, and pedagogy.
Assess course registration and other data to evaluate equitable access to spaces as well as patterns in peer networks within students’ course schedules.
Find out how your course scheduling and semester structure is keeping some students from enrolling or making timely progress to the degree — and siphoning off the budgetary resources you need to operate and innovate.
Research on student and staff sentiment about their experience in your physical space.
Explore digital approaches to increase belonging in courses and elsewhere.