Campus Diversity Agenda helps colleges and universities achieve inclusive excellence through diversity strategic action planning and support.
We know, and the social science literature supports, that effective institutional strategy requires applicable diversity strategy, and the most effective institutions are those that leverage campus diversity as an asset. We support our Clients in understanding and optimizing their institutions’ diversity through a process of inquiry and strategic action.
We advance a critical approach to campus diversity in which diversity contributes to the building of internal capacity and external standing. Our approach to diversity operates on two levels of strategy. The first is an inward focus on excellence through equality and engagement. The second is an outward focus on gaining competitive advantage in the marketplace.
1) Map institutional diversity efforts
2) Create and assess diversity strategic plans
3) Optimize LGBT as a distinct feature of campus diversity
4) Incorporate diversity as a key element in institutional strategy and planning, and
5) Leverage diversity to enhance institutional effectiveness
Posted: 06/18/2014 10:50 pm EDT Updated: 06/18/2014 10:59 pm EDT, Huffington Post President Obama’s executive order banning discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Americans in federal contracting should be a lightning rod for professional sports to do the same. Yet, notwithstanding the “coming out” of players in the NBA and NFL, the evolving views of […]
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Posted: 06/17/2014 1:22 pm EDT Updated: 06/17/2014 1:59 pm EDT, Huffington Post The dirty little secret of corporate America and the practice of diversity is that 25 years after establishing “diversity” offices, most companies have not developed a mature understanding of how diversity can contribute to their bottom lines. Diversity management has a complicated history arising, as it […]
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Posted: 06/16/2014 9:50 am EDT Updated: 06/16/2014 9:59 am EDT, Huffington Post Americans are rightly dismayed that Google, one of our most iconic technology companies, has possibly the worst “diversity” employment record of any Fortune 500 company. According to Google’s workforce statistics, globally 70 percent of its employees are male, and in the U.S., 91 percent are white […]
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Groundbreaking Diversity Series and Research Released by Dr. John Fitzgerald Gates, the Nation’s #1 Thought Leader in Strategic Diversity NEW YORK, N.Y., May 29, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Criticality Management Consulting announces today that it is releasing the groundbreaking Strategic Diversity series from Dr. John Fitzgerald Gates, Ph.D., America’s most insightful and transformational diversity thought-leader. […]
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America’s colleges and universities are facing a pivotal demographic change in the nation’s population – one that will deeply impact the way that these institutions serve a changing student body. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, college enrollments have nearly doubled over the past 10 years, but the growth trend will decline demonstrably in […]
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