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Commitment to Inclusive Excellence
When the College of Education emerged as a standalone college in 2014, the faculty and staff developed a set of core values, including its role as “transformative leaders in improving education, beginning at birth and with a particular focus on serving underperforming schools and underserved communities." Over the years, the College has demonstrated a commitment to these values with long-standing programs such as Call Me MISTER® and ClemsonLIFE™ and new degree programs and innovative initiatives that focus on race, rurality, and poverty. In these efforts, the College seeks to develop actions that will contribute to our goal of making P-20 education an institution enhancing inclusive excellence.
Strategic Plan
The College of Education is implementing a five-year strategic plan to enact its inclusive excellence ideals in systematic and measurable ways. The following is a summary of the primary goals of this plan. Read our complete plan objectives and related action steps.
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Inclusive Excellence Outcomes
Our strategic plan is driving towards the following outcomes:
- Diversity — diversity, or social difference, exists without much effort (i.e., if everyone in the space were racially White there’d be diversity (class; sexuality; religion; etc.))
- Equity (justice) — everyone has what they actually need to thrive (even if that’s different from the person sitting next to them)
- Inclusion — purposeful inclusion of social difference in particular spaces (i.e., who is included where and why)
If you would like to see more details about how we define a variety of inclusive excellence concepts in our work, click the button.
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Inclusive Excellence Goals
Organizational Goals
- Climate Practices and Policies: Prioritize building the CoE’s capacity to engage in equity, diversity, and inclusion systematically, systemically, and collaboratively
- Student Support Systems: Create a climate where all students feel supported, academically and socially, and feel a sense of belonging regardless of identity
- Communicating CoE Expertise: Collaborate with campus partners to increase visibility of the College's expertise in the areas of inclusive excellence across research, teaching, and service
- College Leaders’ Intercultural Competence: Increase the intercultural competence of college leadership as a way to support equity-centered leadership practice
- Leadership Development Opportunities: Prioritize Inclusive Excellence in CoE leadership development
Student Goals
- Student Intercultural Competence: Build students’ capacity to systematically and systemically engage in inclusive excellence
- Recruit Underrepresented Undergraduate Students: Increase the number of racially and ethnically minoritized undergraduate students
- Recruiting Underrepresented Graduate Students: Increase the number of racially and ethnically minoritized graduate students
- Curricula: Create a cohesive curriculum that centers equity and equity-mindedness as a primary learning outcome across all Education programs
- College Capacity - Co Curriculum: Build college capacity to systematically and systemically engage students in equity-centered co-curricular experiences that promote inclusive excellence
- Field Experiences: Build college capacity to systematically and systemically engage students in curricular field-based experiences that promote equity, diversity, and inclusion
Faculty and Staff Goals
- Faculty & Staff Intercultural Competence: Build faculty and staff capacity to systematically and systemically engage in inclusive excellence
- Recruiting Underrepresented Faculty & Staff: Increase the number of racially and ethnically minoritized faculty and staff from local and national searches
- Retention of Underrepresented Faculty & Staff: Improve the overall 5-year retention rate for racially and ethnically minoritized faculty and staff by identifying current college or institutional barriers to their retention
- Faculty & Staff Professional Development: Increase the competence of administrators, faculty, and staff to engage in equity-centered instructional practices and content
- Research Support: Prioritize equity, diversity, and inclusion in the CoE by increasing opportunities to work with and for underserved communities
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Progress Updates
The Inclusive Excellence Implementation has been actively enacting the College of Education’s strategic plan since its final approval in Spring 2022. As we start implementing different goals and objectives according to the plan timeline, we will post updates to keep our college community apprised of our progress.
- Monthly IE Newsletter
Our Impact
The College of Education understands Inclusive Excellence as an active process through which the College achieves excellence in learning, teaching, student development, organizational functioning, and engagement in local and global communities by surfacing inequities experienced by internal and external constituents, integrating equity and educational quality efforts, and building theory and context-based practices for sustained organizational change.
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Teaching
The College has a variety of new degree programs and innovative initiatives that focus on race, rurality and poverty. In addition, the College houses several centers, institutes and programs positively impacting inclusive excellence across and beyond South Carolina :
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Service
College of Education faculty, students, alumni or staff participate in a variety of groups and events that contribute greatly to the social justice and equity efforts of the University.
Our People
While inclusive excellence efforts in the College of Education are community-wide endeavor in which all community members play an important part, the following individuals are providing leadership in the implementation of our strategic plan.
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Dean Fellows
The College of Education has appointed two faculty members — Faiza Jamil and Rachel Wagner — to serve as Dean Fellows for Inclusive Excellence. Working closely with the dean, Jamil and Wagner lead the implementation team of faculty, staff, and student representatives focused on the enhancement of diversity and inclusion in the College. Jamil is an associate professor in the Department of Education and Human Development, and Wagner is an associate professor in the Department of Educational and Organizational Leadership Development.
Faiza Jamil
Associate Professor
409-C Gantt Circle
864-656-7645
fjamil@clemson.eduRachel Wagner
Assistant Professor
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864-656-5111
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Implementation Team
Faiza Jamil, Education and Human Development
Rachel Wagner, Educational and Organizational Leadership Development
Michelle Cook, Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Heather Brooker, Education and Human Development
Sharetta Buford, Doctoral Student, Learning Science
Angela Carter, Educational and Organizational Leadership Development
Latasha Chapell, Office of Field and Clinical Partnerships and Outreach
Brandi Douglas, Doctoral Student, Education Leadership
Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, Education and Human Development
Jill Shelnut, Teaching and Learning
Valerie Oonk, Undergraduate Advising
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Campus Resources
Members of the College and University community are encouraged to make use of campus resources to stay engaged with inclusive excellence. The following curated list offers a variety of accepts points to community resources. If you do not find what you are looking for here, please contact us for additional information.
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Support & Services
Our community members can reach out to a number of offices and organizations on campus to find support in dealing with issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Support and Advocacy
- Bias Related Incident Reporting
- Faculty and Staff Affinity Organizations
- Ombuds
- Sexuality & Gender Alliance (SAGA)
- Student Organizations and Clubs
- Veterans at Clemson
Campus Services
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Learning & Engagement
To learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion, or to share their expertise in this area with others, community members can connect with the a range of programs.
Training and Professional Development
- Access and Equity: Education and Training
- Ally Training
- Inclusive Excellence Certificate
- Intercultural Development
Co/Curricular Opportunities
- Creative Inquiry
- IMPACT
- International Programs
- Multicultural Programs and Services
- Peer Dialogue Facilitators
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