Academic Senate Committee on Diversity and Equity Charge

The Committee on Diversity and Equity is responsible for ensuring, promoting, facilitating, and monitoring diversity and equity opportunities at Marquette University. Its business may be initiated by the UAS, the Provost, other UAS bodies, individual faculty, academic staff, or undergraduate, graduate, or professional students.

The Committee on Diversity and Equity defines the terms diversity and equity in the following manner:

Responsibilities:

  1. Promotes diversity and equity opportunities at Marquette University. The term promote includes but is not limited to the following activities: building alliances across social identities; instilling values and providing tools that enable members of the University community to work together to eradicate all forms of individual and institutional discrimination and oppression; practicing mutual respect for social identities; and exploring differences and similarities in a safe and nurturing environment.
  2. Ensures that diversity and equity opportunities are available at Marquette University. The term ensure includes but is not limited to the following activities: supporting and planning ongoing activities related to diversity and equity; facilitating analysis of gaps, needs and opportunities.
  3. Monitors diversity and equity opportunities at Marquette University. The term monitor includes but is not limited to the following activities: synthesis and critical analysis of reports related to faculty hiring, retention, promotion, and salary.
  4. Provides an annual report to the University Academic Senate.
  5. The Committee may: Undertake campus-wide assessment of diversity or equity, as directed by the President of the University, or other university official. The term assessment includes but is not limited to the following activities: collaboration with administration to obtain the data necessary to analyze and report comparisons with prior data and internal and external benchmarks.

Membership: Includes six faculty members representing a broad range of disciplines and two participating faculty members, one from the library and one adjunct. All members are appointed by the Provost with recommendations offered by the committee. The Marquette University Student Government will select one undergraduate student and the Graduate Student Association will select one graduate student and one professional student to serve on the Committee. The Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, the Director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center and the Ombudsman will be ex-officio members of the Committee. Voting members are appointed for three-year terms. The chair is a faculty member elected by the members of the Committee. Student member responsibilities only include those responsibilities outlined in UAS statutes Section 1.04, “1” and “2”