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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 448 617 HE 033 626 TITLE Excellence and Equity: A Plan for Building Community in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. INSTITUTION Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. PUB DATE 1995-00-00 NOTE 77p.; Produced by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Office of the Chancellor. For the subsequent higher education plan for Pennsylvania, see HE 033 627. AVAILABLE FROM For full text: http://www.sshechan.edu/ssexeeq.html. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC04 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Affirmative Action; College Faculty; College Students; Colleges; *Diversity (Student); Educational Planning; *Educational Policy; *Equal Education; *Higher Education; Racial Discrimination; School Personnel; Sex Discrimination; State Programs IDENTIFIERS *Pennsylvania ABSTRACT This Equity Plan is designed to meet three major objectives for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. It is meant to serve as the policy reference for systemwide equity and diversity efforts for the remainder of the 1990s and to be the procedural and policy blueprint for the efforts of the individual universities in the system. The plan articulates Pennsylvania's vision for the future with relation to equity. The concept of community is the basis of all elements of the Equity Plan, which challenges everyone at a university to be involved in the creation of a welcoming climate in which all students, staff, and faculty flourish. The plan's major subject areas are:(1) students;(2) personnel; and (3) economic opportunities. Each of these areas is addressed from the perspective of the present status of the system, the system's goals, and recommendations regarding strategies and resources for goal attainment. The personnel section also addresses the issue of gender equity. Provisions are made to establish equity for persons with disabilities and veterans. The Equity Plan is comprehensive in scope but is not all-inclusive. It is designed to minimize the requirements and maximize the challenge and opportunity for each university to contribute to the achievement of community within the statewide higher education system. Fourteen appendixes contain information on specific policy areas related to equity, including affirmative action policies. (Contains 9 tables and 52 endnotes.) (SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. A Plan for Buildin "7 I Community PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AN!) DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY cCarn Eck in Pennsylvania's..:,: TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES oi1M4TION C.:N!;-13 !! 11:C, . ...... , State System U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 111 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. of Higher Education ,p,IRS COPY AVAILABLE Board of Governors F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Chairman Lafayette Hill Julia B. Ansill RObert J. O'Hara, Jr. Vice Chair Vice Chair . California Macungie Jennifer M. Alexander Floyd M. Mains Philadelphia Shippensburg . James T. AthertOn, Jr. R. David Myers Wilkes-Barre Harrisburg Muriel Berman Joseph M. Nespoli Allentown Berwick Donald M. Carroll, Jr. Philip D. Rowe, Jr. Hartisburg Wyomissing Jeffrey W. Coy Jere W. Schuler Shippensburg Lampeter Rebecca F Gross Patrick J. Stapleton Lock Haven Indiana Jeremy A. Haugh Julius Uehlein Waynesboro Camp Hill James A. Hughes Stephen E. Whitby. Philadelphia Allentown F. Joseph Loeper Drexel Hill A Plan for Building Community in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education Copyright ®1995 Office of the Chancellor State System of Higher Education Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 5 FOreiticiir Dear Colleagues: In October of 1990, the State System of Higher The Equity Plan outlines the challenges and Education produced the award-winning document, presents guidelines by which the System can effectively Priorities for Pennsylvania's State System of Higher address the vital issues of excellence and equity. Education during the 1990s. This was followed in No task is more consistent with our mission, more August of 1991 by the issuance of Emphasis on central to our future, nor more contributive to the Values. With much pride, I am pleased to forward best interests of the State System, the Commonwealth, the third piece of this mosaic, Excellence and Equity and the nation. a Plan for Building Community in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. Unanimously Special recognition and thanks are extended to approved by the Board of Governors on July 21, 1994, those who gave so generously of their time and talent and representing more than a year's work, Excellence to produce this important document. I now ask the and Equity is the System-wide equity plan for the entire State System family to join in the pursuit of remainder of this decade. the mutually beneficial goal of community The advent of this plan is a significant milestone in the history of the State System. In accordance with the tenets of the Equity Plan, no longer are we content to limit our consideration of equity and diversity to quantitative measures and demographics. Rather, this James H. McCormick document maps out an organizational change strategy Chancellor which affects the entire State System. It challenges everyone to become personally involved in enriching our System through support of enhanced diversity and pluralism. Contents Executive Summary iv Purpose Background 4 Organization Students 7 Enrollment Goals 9 Student Retention 16 Campus Climate 17 Graduation 18 Personnel 21 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) 22 Gender Equity 23 Sexual Harassment 24 Sports Equity 25 Persons with Disabilities 25 Veterans 26 Economic Opportunities 27 Status 27 Recommendations 28 Responsibilities 29 President and Executive Staff 29 Faculty 31 Student Life Administrators 32 Staff 33 Students 33 Office of the Chancellor 34 Assessnient 35 Annual Reports 35 Equity Program Reviews 36 Equity Symposia 36 Conclusions 37 BEST COPYAVAILABLE The State System of Higher Education is committed to a policy of affirmative action. The State System assures equal opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, ancestry, national origin, age, or sex in accordance with state and federal laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Inquiries about this policy may be directed to the Social Equity Director, Office of the Chancellor. Appendix A: Glossary 39 Appendix B: The Higher Education Equity Index (HEEI) 40 Appendix C: Computation of University Enrollment Goals for Black and Latino Resident Students 40 Appendix D: Promising Practices in the Recruitment and Retention of RaciaVEthnic Minority Students ... 41 Appendix E: Diversity Initiatives 43 Appendix F: Job Group Classifications 45 Appendix G: Affirmative Action Plan Guidelines 45 Appendix H: Guidelines Developed by the American Council on Education (ACE) Commission on Women in Higher Education 47 Appendix I: Sexual Harassment Policy Information 48 Appendix J: Sample Sexual Harassment Policy 49 Appendix K: Gender Equity in Sports 52 Appendix L: Information Resources and Promising Practices/Tips for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 53 Appendix M: Minority Business and Women Business Enterprise Participation in Facilities Projects 55 Appendix N: Assessing Campus Climate 59 Equity Plan Committees Steeling 61 Economic Opportunity 61 Personnel 62 Student 62 Endnotes 63 Tables Table I: Pennsylvania Latino and Black Populations by Primary Location, 1990 8 Table II: Black (B), Latino (L), and White (W) Pennsylvania High School Graduates and the Number and Percent of New Freshmen at System Universities, 1989-1993 10 Table III: Black Resident First-Time Freshman Enrollment Expressed as a Percentage of the Total Resident First-Time Freshman Enrollment, 1989-1993 11 Table IV: Latino Resident First-Time Freshman Enrollment Expressed as a Percentage of the Total First-Time Freslunan Enrollment, 1989-1993 12 Table V: University Proportion of State System's Total Black Resident First-Time Freshman Enrollment, 1989-1993 13 Table VI: University Proportion of State System's Total Latino Resident First-Time Freshman Enrollment, 1989-1993 14 Table VII: Projected Number of High School Graduates and Estimated State System Goals for Black and Latino First-Time Freshmen, 1995-2001 15 Table VIII:Baccalaureate Degrees Awarded by Race/Ethnic Group, 1988-89 to 1992-93 19 Table IX: Full-Time Employees in Colleges and Universities by Race/Ethnic Group, 1989-1990 21 a iii Executive Summary Purpose and Overview The Equity Plan, the successor policy document to merely tolerated but celebrated, and which are char- the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Plan: acterized by common goals and values and mutual a Prospectus, is designed to meet three major objec- respect and responsibility. Through community, the tives: 1) to serve as the policy reference for System- System universities will advance from the ideal of wide equity and diversity efforts for the remainder of diversity to the ideal of pluralism, attaining the inter- the decade; 2) to serve as the policy and procedural dependent goals of equity and excellence. Thus, the blueprint for efforts

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