The state system’s wide-reaching response to one lawmaker’s request shows the heavy
lift that results when politicians probe how social issues are taught in classrooms.
The purpose of the campaign is to challenge stereotypes around religions, faith, spirituality,
and/or life practices within a social justice framework.
Your generosity furthers the campus committment to inclusive excellence.
Strategic Plan
Action Steps for the Diversity and Strategic Plan (2017-2022)
Goal 1 - Access and Success
Status: In Progress
CSUSM will improve institutional access and equity through effective recruitment and
retention of diverse students, faculty, staff, and administrators, providing them
with equitable and expanded opportunities for success.
Develop students’ skills, knowledge, and abilities to advocate for, lead, and participate
in social change, to function and contribute effectively in a diverse and multicultural
world, and to understand the role of diversity in their own lives and in society.
Goal 3 - Inclusive Climate
Status: In Progress
Foster and maintain an inclusive, welcoming, campus environment where all campus members
thrive and are heard and where differences are considered a collective strength.
Goal 4 - Institutionalized Diversity
Status: In Progress
Ensure that CSUSM’s institutional priorities, initiatives, policies, and practices
take into account, reflect, and support the university’s goals and expectations for
diversity and inclusion.
California State University San Marcos has received the 2020 Higher Education Excellence
in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest
diversity-focused publication in higher education. This is the seventh straight year
that CSUSM has been named a HEED Award recipient.