#3 Fostering INCLUSIVITY and DIVERSITY

Truman has the potential to be an all-inclusive, diverse, and cohesive community,

but we must take steps to ensure that students and faculty from all backgrounds feel

that they belong on our campus. Many cultural communities are pushed to assimilate

to existing norms, rather than having their say in the system and structure of our

university. Voices from leaders within these diverse communities must be heard.

Truman, our time to become a place where all feel welcome is now!

-Showing Truman’s Cultural Awareness by Employing More Diversity Training

● For Truman to be a welcoming place, we must begin with a faculty, staff,

and student body educated in how to relate to those of different cultures.

● Teaming up with the Multicultural Affairs Center to create faculty and

student diversity training will be a positive step forward.

-Promoting the Implementation of an Open Housing Pilot Program and the

Creation of an LGBTQ+ Resource Center

● Senate has heard student opinion, conducted research, and a plan has

been formed by Residence Life to implement Open Housing.

● Likewise, the LGBTQ+ community and hundreds of other students have

expressed support for the creation of an LGBTQ+ Resource Center

● We want to ensure these projects come to fruition through undaunted

vigilance towards the logistical and administrative process.

- Integrating First Experiences at Truman to Create a Stronger Community

● International Student Orientation, Transfer Student Orientation, and

Truman Week for freshman are disconnected.

● We would like to better integrate this friendship-forming time by inviting

all of these new students to social events that bring students from differing

cultures together to create new bonds early on.