LANGUAGE FOR YOUR PLANS
Turn your written commitments into daily practice.
Your plans already name the institution you want to become. Below is suggested language you can adapt to connect those commitments to the training that keeps them.
A plan is a promise a community makes to itself. The language below is offered as a starting point, written to be adapted to your institution's voice, mission, and context. We encourage you to revise it so it reflects who you are and who you serve.
These samples are illustrative. Please review any language with the appropriate leaders, human resources professionals, and counsel before adopting it.
FOR YOUR HUMAN RESOURCES PLAN
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ON PREPARING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The institution will ensure that everyone who serves on a hiring or screening committee completes equity centered training on fair and effective hiring practices before participating in a selection process. This training addresses applicable federal law, state law, and the provisions of Title 5, along with the recognition and interruption of bias in hiring.
ON DOCUMENTATION AND RECOGNITION
Completion of fair hiring training will be documented through a digital badge and certificate recognized by Human Resources as evidence of a person's readiness to serve on a screening or hiring committee.
ON CULTURE COMPETENCE
The institution is committed to building the cultural competence, cultural fluency, and cultural humility of its hiring committees, so that our selection practices recognize the cultural assets each candidate brings and reflect the communities we serve.
ON SUSTAINING THE PRACTICE
The institution will sustain a culture of fair and effective hiring through ongoing, multi year professional development, ensuring that new committee members are prepared and that our practices remain current with evolving law and promising practice.
FOR YOUR HUMAN RESOURCES PLAN
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ON WORKFORCE AND BELONGING
Recognizing that students thrive when they see themselves reflected in the people who serve them, the institution will invest in equity centered hiring practices as a direct strategy for closing equity gaps and strengthening students' sense of belonging.
ON COINNECTING HIRING TO OURCOMES
The institution will prepare its hiring and screening committees to interrupt inequitable, discriminatory, and exclusionary practices, understanding that who we hire shapes the access, retention, and completion outcomes named in this plan.
ON CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICE
The institution will support employees in developing culturally responsive practices that recognize and honor the cultural assets of the students and communities we serve, beginning with the people responsible for building our workforce.
ON THE USE OF RESOURCES
The institution will direct equity and EEO resources toward professional development that builds the capacity of our people to advance the goals of this plan, including training for those who serve on hiring and screening committees.
WE CAN HELP YOU TAILOR IT
From sample language to your language.
Adapting this language to your institution is part of the conversation we love to have. We can help you connect the training to the specific goals in your plans, curate the course to your mission and values, and align the effort with the funds and timelines you are working within.
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Reach out and we will help you move from sample language to language that is truly your own.