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• September 14, 2015

For the last five years, Cal State East Bay has built a supportive community for its highly diverse student population. Just how this university-wide initiative is being executed is the subject of, “Building an Inclusive, Accessible, and Responsive Campus at California State University East Bay, 2010-2015,” which has been published in the September edition of “Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations.”

“We wanted to highlight what we are doing university-wide, with emphasis to the breadth of our diversity efforts,” said Dr. Dianne Rush Woods, CSUEB's diversity officer.

Woods co-authored the article with Sarah Taylor, assistant professor of social work; Duke Austin, assistant professor of sociology; Julie Beck, associate professor of criminal justice; Ken Chung, management assistant professor; Stephanie Couch, Institute for STEM Education executive director; E. Maxwell Davis, human development & women studies associate professor; Bryan Fauth, College Link Program coordinator; Kim Geron, political science department chair; Dale Katherine Ireland, English lecturer; Eric Kupers, theatre & dance associate professor; Michael S. Massey, earth & environmental sciences assistant professor; Amy June Rowly, modern languages and literature associate professor; Julie Stein, education effectiveness project manager; and Jessica Weiss, faculty development professor.

“When we were first asked to write the article, we made a list of all the people we wanted to invite to contribute to it,” Taylor said. “We easily came up with 40 names, and could probably have identified more. Due to the tight deadlines for the article, only 15 were able to serve as co-authors. The fact that we have such a large ‘choir’ of people from a wide array of academic departments and administrative units on campus, committed to diversity and social justice, is incredible.”

The article chronicles the strategies that have facilitated significant progress in building a campus fostering one of the most diverse student bodies in the United States. Emphasis is placed on support, professional development and policies around inclusion and access. It also highlights the importance of working with intention and consciousness to support positive encouragement among a diverse student body.

“Our hope is that the article will be useful internally, to orient faculty, staff, administrators, and students about what has been done, and inspire them to do more,” Taylor said. “The article ends with next steps because our work in this area will never be done, and we are always learning and growing. At the same time, we would like the article to serve as a sort of toolbox for colleagues at other institutions who are just beginning their efforts to build more inclusive and accessible campuses.”