GOAL #4 STATEMENT:  Recruit and retain faculty, staff and students from diverse backgrounds

Key Strategy or Initiative	Specific Actions	Responsible department/person	Implementation milestones	Resource Requirements	What results?  How will we assess and hold ourselves accountable for making progress?	

1.	Continue efforts to recruit and retain faculty and staff  of color 	•	Continue with the diversity venues for advertising
•	Continue working with various department heads	Diversity/Affirmative Action & Human Resources	•	New hiring procedures stressing Diversity oversight for searches	•	Increased accountability	•	Increase the recruitment and retention of  faculty/staff of color 

2. Continue to raise diversity 
     hiring awareness for senior      
     administrators	•	During annual review with the president the success of hiring and retaining persons of color for your division/department should be considered	Diversity/Affirmative Action & Human Resources	•	Senior Officers stress the importance of diverse pools for searches	•	Increased accountability	•	Increase the recruitment and retention of  faculty/staff of color 

3.	 Community Resource    
Directory	•	Update/expand and go live with the on-line community resource directory	Carlton Pickron/ IDAC Committee	•	When we go live with substantive information for new and potential employees 
	•	Minimal funding	•	Have it up and running on the web-site and portal to increase and retain the number of faculty/staff of color.

4.  SANKOFA Diverse Faculty 
     and Staff Directory	•	Actively encouraging all members of SANKOFA to submit their bio and photo for inclusion in the directory
•	Add directory to University’s web-site and limited hard copy	Carlton Pickron & SANKOFA Organization of Diverse Faculty and Staff, Christina Swaidan, Chair	•	When 50% of identified persons of color have submitted their bio	•	None	•	Up and running on the web-site and portal to increase the recruitment and retention of faculty/staff of color 	

5.  Increase international student population studying at Westfield State University

	•	Reciprocal-tuition agreements signed.
•	Marketing materials presented through foreign partners
•	Enrollment benchmarks set
	B. Hayes; C. Siegler	•	20% increase of international student count on campus	•	None	•	Increase the international student population