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1. moving resources to underserved schools to increase admissions literacy.

2. Diverse outreach staff to provide a better insight into the needs of URM student's schools. Linguistically as well.

3. Consistent training on bias/multicultural trainings. Not just one time a year.

4. Affirmative action no longer illegal. Creating an admissions process that values different knowledge systems & ways of learning.

5.

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-Make the hiring process more equitable.
- Doing our best to reduce favoritism.
-Create a reform regarding pay wages and eliminate gender pay gaps. Paying a living wage that aligns with inflation.
-Putting more value on the employees.
-Providing adequate training for people in power to provide them with a different lens to cultivate a better understanding of the students they serve. This may also provide an opportunity to understand the value of hiring and promoting people of color.

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Looking at other cultures and nations in how they celebrate graduations

Having diverse folks on graduation planning committee

Being willing to change practices as far as accessibility goes by ensuring the venue is accessible and evaluating what process is needed to get accommodations at a graduation

Shared governance as far as planning the graduation

Surveying the students to get feedback for what they would like at graduation

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Money, funding. More than they "need"
Raise, better pay
Hire diverse staff
Cultural/Racial sensitivity training/professional development
Don't place funding on "results" place funding on intentional support
Make a central space for student support/student affairs programs and offices. Food options/access within spaces. Interactive space

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- Allowing people without PhDs, or with their MA's to get into high positions in higher ed.
- Incorporate/making mandatory and making it in-person for staff/faculty/administrators to take Diversity and Initiative; taking and putting it to practice
- Re-examine how student affairs professionals are being paid
- Hire more diverse staff/faculty/administrators from different spaces, backgrounds, etc.

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Bureaucracy of changing process makes changes not happen or take years to happen. Approval needed by detached leadership or professors.

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Lack of diversity training and initiative to learn diverse practices

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Lack of diversity training and initiative to learn diverse practices

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Hire diverse faculty

Outreach efforts to ALL communities

Scholarships or have departments adjust requirements to accommodate students

Increased training for faculty for anti-deficit and inclusive education

Academic progress check ins for students to ensure they are not pushed out of their majors

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Monolingual informational/recruitment documents

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Be a leader who promotes growth, life-work balance, teach others how to succeed as a team. Prepare employees to work as a team

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More likely for a person that comes from a well off place to be willing to stay within education because they are not in a survival mindset and can afford to be on less pay

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More likely for a person that comes from a well off place to be willing to stay within education because they are not in a survival mindset and can afford to be on less pay

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Admissions readers biases

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Heavy placement on AP/Honors courses

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Many organizations are slow to promote qualified individuals to leadership roles. Once in that role, leaders are often compelled to prioritize their work over everything else, rather than try to maintain a healthy work/life balance.

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The process of choosing keynote speakers 

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The process of choosing keynote speakers 

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Concept of regalia and what does the cap and gown really signify.

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Concept of regalia and what does the cap and gown really signify.

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Lack of outreach to provide low-income, people of color, and/or first-generation students knowledge on educational opportunities.

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Accessibility for certain majors - requirements to fulfill course such as dance performances, expensive software that can be expensive and out of reach for students

Weeding students of color out of STEM courses, lack of representation of faculty of color

International students - non inclusive instruction, people assume they may know how to navigate this system. Curriculum is U.S. based

Preconceived expectations for majors

Honors programs - who gets told about these requirements or how to even get into it

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Cultural centers, first to get cut

Location, not central to where students hangout

May not have an ideal office space

Cultural events are not intentional, disrespectful

Lack of representation

Diversity officer

Pay—specific groups make less (by gender, race)

Lack of staff and funding

Expected to do more with less

Work extra, know the ins and outs of campus

Constantly under a microscope, if program does not “excel,” they get cut

Lack of professional dev opportunity (staff AND student workers/leaders), especially with cultural center

Priorities on the funding

Example—large funding for furniture

High pressure/expectations for students to succeed, especially in minority/newly funded

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People continue to hire individuals with the same ideas in order to continue to promote a specific agenda

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People continue to hire individuals with the same ideas in order to continue to promote a specific agenda

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Recognizing students with honors (does not take into account systemic racism and institutional problems that keep students from getting a 4.0)

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Recognizing students with honors (does not take into account systemic racism and institutional problems that keep students from getting a 4.0)

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With regards to interviewing for graduate/private schools, non-americanized and low income students may not meet the level of presentability

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Prestigious Institutions are Predominantly White

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Prestigious Institutions are Predominantly White

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Harvard, Princeton, USC, etc are considered leading institutions and they are primarily enrolled by students, faculty, and staff that are white.

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Affirmative action not being allowed in admissions work.

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-Cultural Graduations (Zarapes in stoles, Mexican Folkloricos, ignoring Central American and South American cultures/traditions)

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-Cultural Graduations (Zarapes in stoles, Mexican Folkloricos, ignoring Central American and South American cultures/traditions)

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Being expected to participate in national anthem 

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Being expected to participate in national anthem 

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Lack of (Latinx, Black)representation within role of leadership (Deans, Driectors, Presidents, [aside from cultural programs])

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Lack of (Latinx, Black)representation within role of leadership (Deans, Driectors, Presidents, [aside from cultural programs])

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It's more likely a white, educated man will have the opportunity to be tenure. It's harder for people of color to attain a PhD and get the tenure position or a high position in higher ed 

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It's more likely a white, educated man will have the opportunity to be tenure. It's harder for people of color to attain a PhD and get the tenure position or a high position in higher ed 

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Lack of diversity in staff, faculty, and administrators

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Men and white individuals are generally selected for leadership positions disproportionately more than women and POC across almost all industries. There are also gender and racial pay disparities amongst leaders.

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1. Allowing people with MA's to get into high positions. Systemic oppression play into the positions you're trying to get.

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1. Allowing people with MA's to get into high positions. Systemic oppression play into the positions you're trying to get.

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Lack of diversity in staff, faculty, and administrators 

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Lack of diversity in staff, faculty, and administrators 

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Standardized testing keeping low income and students of color out.

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-Accessibility and Attendees in Graduation events (disabilities, if they can't stand for long)

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-Accessibility and Attendees in Graduation events (disabilities, if they can't stand for long)