As a future social change agent, you seek to acquire and apply the skills that will enable you to one day become a skilled negotiator, advocate, and leader. On your leadership pathway, you were recently elected to the role of president of your campus’s diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) program. As president, you will be responsible for transforming the university culture into a community that celebrates acceptance, equality, and unity—from executive administrators to current students and alumni.

Within this transformation, you must encourage people to acknowledge the unconscious biases that silently influence their interactions. Likewise, you must encourage people to respect the divergent viewpoints of others and acknowledge the inherent opportunities to learn from such differences. Lastly, you are tasked to help others to understand that fairness and equality are not simply optional, but are the keys to cultivating a culturally competent environment. However, you are aware of the barriers that inhibit members of the academic community from engaging in productive interactions—specifically, the stereotypes and biases that unconsciously confirm our social identities.

For this project, you will be creating an advocacy initiative designed to encourage members of your university system to adopt diversity, equity, and inclusivity as core values of community well-being.

Directions
You will use the Project Two Template Word Document uploaded below to complete your advocacy initiative