Anti-Racism Plan of Action
On July 6, 2020, 约翰·斯沃洛总统宣布了bv伟德ios下载反对种族主义的行动计划, to both affirm and demonstrate that Black lives matter.
Ida B. 威尔斯写道:“纠正错误的方法是用真理之光照耀他们。.” We take these words, and her actions as an educator, journalist, and leader, as a touchstone for the work Carthage will do.
这个计划借鉴了bv伟德ios下载学院多样性的优秀工作, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2020-2023, which recognized and articulated ideas for action, 以及公平与包容委员会和总统多元化咨询委员会, Equity, and Inclusion, 在2019-20学年，谁监督和鼓励了行动.
这个计划建立在这个坚实的基础上，但不是一个静态的文件. 随着我们打击种族主义的努力不断扩大和发展, this plan will necessarily evolve as well.
Reaching Understanding
- bv伟德ios下载校长约翰·斯沃洛要求bv伟德ios下载教师实施最近批准的通识教育, 毕业必修课程2021年秋季新生的多元化视角.
- 斯沃洛校长要求教务长大卫·蒂默曼与bv伟德ios下载学院的教职员工合作，以确保这一点 all students study U.S. racial history as part of their Carthage education in their first or second year, through the graduation requirement beginning in fall 2021, and in as many courses as appropriate in the year 2020-21.
- Faculty and staff will learn to understand, talk about, and confront racism through increased training and discussion. 我们的目标是确保学生知道如何报告偏见事件, and that faculty and staff will know how to respond, as specifically as they do now for Title IX.
Building Relationships
- 2020年秋天，bv伟德ios下载开设了一个跨文化中心(更名为Engagement)，并配备了员工 & 为多样性、公平和包容提供额外的资源. This center, located in the Todd Wehr Center, serves students, faculty, and staff in having frank discussions about race and outcomes.
- bv伟德ios下载将通过重新关注招聘实践，有意寻求更多元化的教职员工. 同时认识到新的教职员工职位的短期前景非常有限, 我们将把注意力集中在可以用来填补空缺职位的做法上.
- The Carthage campus community will engage in the work of Braver Angels’ movement to de-polarize American society, 因为我们知道，两极分化阻碍了需要进行的讨论. In particular, Carthage joins Braver Angels’ With Malice Toward None program 今年秋天，与其他ELCA学院和大学合作.
- The President will meet regularly with students from diversity, equity, and inclusion groups, in addition to DEI staff, to hear directly from those Carthage serves.
Achieving Results
- bv伟德ios下载将消除在保留率和毕业率上的种族和民族差异. 斯沃洛校长要求蒂默曼教务长和阿比盖尔·汉娜副校长分析迄今为止所有有关努力的可用数据, 并在2020年年底之前提交他们的研究结果. On the basis of that data, Carthage leadership, in conversation with the entire College community, will offer an informed set of metrics and targets, 以及整个学院的流程和变化，以实现这一目标.
- The President’s Advisory Board on Diversity, Equity, 和包容将继续监测我们的进展和挫折，并不断收集新的想法.
- 为此，bv伟德ios下载将全力参与密尔沃基地区的工作 Higher Education Regional Alliance, 旨在消除密尔沃基周围七个县的所有18所高等教育机构之间的差异.
Joining Forces
- The Carthage Board of Trustees 是否会进一步强调从广泛和多样化的背景中招聘董事会成员的计划.
- bv伟德ios下载队名和吉祥物特别工作组将在未来几个月内完成其工作, 考虑到今年秋天是否建议更换队名和/或吉祥物. 如果这样的建议被提交并被董事会批准, 改革过程将在2020-21学年结束前完成, with a new team name in place for fall 2021.
- bv伟德ios下载将利用从事这项工作的组织的专业知识，并通过分享我们的专业知识来支持他们的努力. 这些包括地方和地区学区，其他学院和大学，基诺沙的 Building Our Future, and Racine’s Higher Expectations for Racine County.
- Funding for these efforts, from existing and new funders, 将是bv伟德ios下载制度发展办公室的首要任务.
Thanks
斯沃洛总统对所表达的关切表示非常感谢, and the suggestions made, by Carthage students, faculty, staff, 通过最近的听力课程和一对一的对话. 这些活动既发生在专门致力于改善黑人和其他代表性不足学生生活的团体中，也发生在其他论坛上.
他也非常感谢bv伟德ios下载的公平和包容委员会, 特别是因为它为bv伟德ios下载学院的多样性做了准备, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2020-2023, and the President’s Advisory Board on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Finally, 他很感激bv伟德ios下载人之间正在进行的富有成效和情感的对话, in as depolarized and constructive a manner as possible, allowing Carthage to move forward more quickly.
如果没有这些bv伟德ios下载人和他们对更大真理的承诺，这个行动计划是不可能实现的, strength, and service together.
Guiding Quotations
Ida B. 威尔斯:"纠正错误的方法就是让真理之光照耀他们.”
詹姆斯·鲍德温:“我们可以有分歧，但仍然彼此相爱，除非你的分歧植根于我的压迫和对我的人性和生存权的否认.”
希伯来书11:1:“信就是所望之事的实底，是未见之事的确据。.这句话让我们认识到，虽然我们没有一个人生活在一个没有种族主义的社会, 我们满怀信心和信念前进，相信这样一个社会是可能的，并致力于实现它.
Join Us
This plan is not static, but meant to evolve and expand. 斯沃洛总统欢迎其他bv伟德ios下载团体和人民宣布自己的承诺，以纳入这一计划.