Collaborative Resources
The Office of Campus Climate & Culture works collaboratively with offices across campus to support a sense of community connection and mutual respect while offering guidance on the policies and procedures that promote a culture of accountability.
Student Affairs
- Explore - CORE: SRU offers a diverse range of student organizations related to culture, identity, and advocacy.
- Office of Inclusive Excellence: Students from a diverse range of cultures, abilities, and backgrounds excel through positive interactions that include academic, personal, and social support networks.
- Pride Center
Human Resources
- Human Resources and Compliance: Slippery Rock University provides an environment that respects, encourages, and promotes the talents and contributions of all.
- Professional Development Opportunities: Workshops and seminars to broaden professional skillsets with a focus on pluralism and diversity awareness.
Enhancing Employee Relations: Sessions to improve communication and relationships among faculty and staff. - Cultural Competencies: Various workshops and professional development training on a wide range of lived experiences and interpersonal connections. Customizable sessions with Campus Climate & Culture staff are available upon request.
- Policy Development: Helping review, revise, and create policies with a focus on the mutual respect of all people.
Academic Affairs
- Gender Studies: Gender is political. It's cultural. It's complex. Whether we recognize it or not, we experience, reinforce and disrupt social expectations about masculinity, femininity, sex, sexuality, and sexual identities every day.
- Faculty Search Procedures: Supporting fair hiring practices with workshops for search committees.
- Faculty Promotion: Consultative sessions from Campus Climate and Culture staff to assist with the promotion process.
- Department Bylaws: Consultative guidance on developing and updating bylaws for academic departments.
Consultative Services
- Guest Lectures from Campus Climate and Culture staff are available to strengthen commitments and raise awareness with offices and departments across campus regarding climate and cultural issues.
- Campus Culture and Climate Assessment: Evaluations to understand and improve the campus environment designed to address potential disruptions to a holistic campus environment.
- Power of Stories: Storytelling sessions that highlight multifaceted lived experiences.
- Alumni Digest Speakers: Alumni sharing their journeys and achievements.
- Affinity Month Speakers and Engagement: Events and speakers celebrating various affinity months.
Ancillary Organizations
- Black Faculty and Staff Association: Our vision is to develop and sustain a culturally aware and inclusive community especially as it relates to the minority population of black faculty, staff, and students. (Move the BFSA page to the HR section.)