CFPA Accessibility Diversity Equity Inclusion (ADEI) Committee

This standing (permanent) committee is comprised of representative staff, students and faculty from each department of the college. We are here for you - our community. We are charged with advising, promoting, and mentoring the efforts of the college to advance the accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion of its practices, pedagogies, policies, and procedures. Our mission is growing and changing as we continue to learn and implement processes throughout the college in order to create and support a culture of greater inclusion.

Please let us know if you have any thoughts or concerns about ADEI in the college. We’re here for you!

Report incidents of Bias

Report accessibility barrier

What we do

Assess current ADEI efforts and programs underway within the college.
Keep up to date on known or potential ADEI related concerns, successes, and gathered insights which affect our college community. Identify those which are best addressed at the college level.
Consider best practices in use in other successful organizations.
Encourage robust and frank conversations within and throughout the CFPA community.
Assist the Dean in planning and implementing ADEI initiatives and policy improvements.
- Submit a draft ADEI plan to the Dean with short and long-term goals and aspirations by the end of the Spring Quarter.
- The draft ADEI plan will be reviewed by the CFPA Faculty Governance Council at the beginning of Fall Quarter.
Maintain this webpage and a shared digital space that documents the Committee’s work.

Committee Minutes (log in with WWU ID)

A person wearing a backpack sits on a log over a river surrounded by lush forest

We acknowledge that the work we do is on the unceded and traditional territories of The Coast Salish Peoples, and many other First Nations. This acknowledgment does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities, but serves as a first step in honoring the land we occupy. Please continue to learn more about the true stewarts of the area Western Washington University is facilitated from.

Observances

March 8 International Women's Day
March 13-April 15 National Deaf History Month
March 21
- World Down Syndrome Awareness Day
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 24 International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 31 International Transgender Day of Visibility

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Celebrate accessibility with us

A one-legged person in a modern dance costume balances on the fingers of two hands as their one foot hovers inches above the ground at the top of a staircase

January 7 through March 22: visit the Western Gallery for the Embodiment exhibition. In this exhibition, 16 artists confront the social perceptions of disability. They draw upon their own experiences: the pleasures and difficulties of their daily lives.