Partnership & Support

The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion seeks to support members of the campus community in their individual and collective efforts to foster more accessible, equitable, and inclusive living, learning, and working environments. The Office of DEI seeks to be a resource, thought partner, and collaborator to help all faculty, staff, departments, and programs meet their goals and desired impact.

Examples of ways we can provide partnership and support:

• Working with individual faculty and/or academic departments on curriculum development or revision.
• Working with individual faculty and/or academic departments on inclusive design for learning and/or teaching/facilitation practices that increase accessibility.
• Working with staff on ways to design and facilitate culturally responsive student leadership development.
• Working with faculty and staff on trauma-informed approaches to student support.
• Working with academic department chairs and program directors on culturally responsive mentoring strategies for faculty.
• Working with individual faculty and/or academic departments on the development of surveys to assess students’ experiences of the learning environment.
• Working with individual faculty and staff on ways to facilitate difficult dialogues.
• Working with supervisors of full-time staff on ways to foster inclusive team dynamics or to address behaviors that impact inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
• Working with managers on ways to provide constructive feedback and/or ongoing coaching or development.
• Working with individual faculty or staff on strategies to address dynamics between students that impact the experience of inclusion and belonging.
• Exploring ways individual faculty or staff can navigate dynamics with colleagues to foster greater inclusion and belonging.
• Working with managers to develop onboarding plans for new employees that are culturally responsive and increase workplace inclusion.
• Working with hiring departments and search committees on position descriptions, active recruitment, equitable assessment of applicants, accessible interview processes, and hiring for culturally responsive teaching, mentoring, advising, supervision, and student support/development.
• Working with campus partners to review and revise policies and practices to increase access, equity, and inclusion.
• Working with campus partners on accessible and inclusive event planning.
• Conflict mediation or restorative justice processes between individual faculty and staff, within departments or teams, and/or between students.

Individual faculty or staff and department chairs/directors can contact Renee Wells, Chief Diversity Officer (wellsr@queens.edu), to explore ways the Office of DEI can serve as a resource and/or partner.