WSU Tilford Group Mission and Primary Goals

The Tilford Group is a development and consulting group consisting of faculty, staff, students and administrators dedicated to facilitating a campus experience that is truly multicultural in nature. The Group’s primary goals are to:

• Infuse campus units and personnel with global awareness and an understanding and respect for diverse cultures
• Further curriculum efforts that include diversity and multiculturalism as a course or program objective
• Develop a draft strategic diversity plan for WSU that focuses on multifaceted efforts (across campus units) to build a multicultural campus climate
• Increase the understanding and implementation at WSU of current best practices and policies now being used in the academy, government agencies, and businesses that relate to:
  • student admission, retention and satisfaction
  • faculty and staff hiring, retention and satisfaction.

• Initiative

• Meeting Minutes

• Working Subgroups

• Tilford Conference

• Provost's reflections on diversity