Training and education for managers and hiring committees could help in this regard. That is absolutely not true and it makes staff feel angry and de-valued to hear it. The message is that somehow staff is responsible for the fact that campus operations are not working that faculty and students are complaining. Financial support by the campus for constituent groups is declining. The support needs to increase so that the visibility and activities of these groups can increase.
People usually follow what they observe management s position to be.
If management is not exercising color-blindness, then all else is in vain. I was different and not automatically accepted as were the other new hires. Some of my co-workers assumed that I was hired not because I had the skills and was qualified to do the job, but because of the Affirmative Action goal. That is a pretty clear message that the folks at the top don t really value diversity. We repeatedly heard that many reports have previously been submitted regarding Affirmative Action, diversity and workload issues.