Goal Four
UALR will demonstrate its commitment to diversity, equality, and global understanding.
Objective 1
UALR will enhance diversity among its faculty and administration.
Strategy 1: UALR’s Office of Human Resources will maintain appropriate data that will form a basis for UALR to assess its faculty and administrative diversity by unit in comparison to that of the appropriate hiring markets and to set targets for recruitment.
Strategy 2: UALR will develop opportunistic strategies to enable hiring and retention of available candidates from underrepresented groups.
Strategy 3: UALR will increase the number of mentoring programs on campus and participation in mentoring programs among faculty and administrators from underrepresented groups.
Objective 2
UALR will enhance the diversity of student body.
Strategy 1: UALR will assess its diversity in comparison to the greater community and set measurable targets for recruitment.
Objective 3
UALR will establish university-wide leadership to champion diversity.
Strategy 1: UALR will establish a campus-wide council on diversity, equality, and global understanding to lead the campus in long-range planning related to diversity and launching strategic diversity initiatives.
Objective 4
UALR will nurture curricular and co-curricular learning environments that promote diversity and global understanding.
Strategy 1: UALR will enhance curricular focus on cultural competence.
Strategy 2: UALR will enhance co-curricular programming targeted toward emerging student populations and will develop and maintain co-curricular training that promotes diversity and global understanding.
Strategy 3: Increase the number of students who participate in international educational experiences.