ABSTRACT
This chapter provides proactively toward the future by creating a holistic overview that will allow campuses to gauge the degree of interaction and integration across some diversity dimensions. It addresses the complexity and tension among horizontal and vertical elements of the campus infrastructure and generates greater horizontal integration for the whole campus as a learning community for diversity. Tactical strategies include piloting the audit process over a defined time period, building ownership at the unit level by engagement with stakeholders, and creating research teams from diversity councils to analyze results. The university serves a high percentage of first-generation and minority students and the audit was initiated in order to understand how the institution could respond more effectively to the needs of its diverse student population. The institution operates using diversity processes that are explicit, repeatable, and evaluated regularly. Diversity metrics and benchmarks are used by all affected stake-holders and reported.
