Strategic Goal 5: Advocacy & Support
Act as advocates for the elimination of institutional barriers that can impede the advancement of some members of our campus community and support institutional practices that promote equitable progress.
Aligned with LMU Goals
- Live an institutional commitment to Catholicism and the Judeo- Christian Tradition
Rationale
All of us have some level of unconscious bias, which is an implicit automatic mental process that systematically distorts the way we interpret people and events. Research reveals that unconscious bias may have a detrimental impact on fundamental aspects of higher education such as the selection of faculty, staff and students, as well as on mentoring and classroom climate (Bnez, Clayton, and Costa, 1998; Chesler and Chesler, 2002; Southern Poverty Law Center, 2007; Trix and Psenka, 2003; and Vilian, 1998).
In order to support the social justice component of LMU’s mission, it is important to take a proactive stance to assure that all members of our campus community, including historically underrepresented groups, are not marginalized but rather are actively involved and represented in the mainstream culture of the university.
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Initiative 5: Advocacy & Support