The Spring 2023 Assessment of Campus Climate for Learning, Living, and Working was meant to foster a community that is open, fair and provides equal access for all students, staff, and faculty, reflective of Berea’s historic mission. The assessment seeks to create and maintain a welcoming community nurtured by open communication and that respects individual needs, abilities, and potential.

All aspects of campus stakeholders—students, faculty, staff, administration, and trustees—have received data and plans as a result of the assessment.

The following is a list of the main requests for action from each of the three groups surveyed: students, staff, and faculty.

Action Items

Updates

Action Items

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Action Items

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The Administrative Committee will continue to identify, review, and respond to these action items. To remain transparent and accountable to our campus community, tracking progress on these items will continue well beyond Fall 2024 semester. Progress on each action item will initially be shared with the AC, and then regularly shared with the campus community through various forms of communication (for example, President Nixon’s Updates, General Assembly, Administrative Leadership Council, Staff Forum, and the Climate Assessment website under the “Action Item” tab).

While keenly aware of the need to address ongoing concerns, we are comforted in knowing that our campus community is committed to working intentionally to realize our guiding values, as expressed in our motto, “God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth” and the Eight Great Commitments. We acknowledge this assessment is one of several tools to achieve our vision through action plans and the cultivation of a community that continues our founder John G. Fee’s practice of impartial love. We thank the President and AC for their ongoing support of this work and assistance with moving these action items forward. 

Respectfully,

The Campus Climate Advisory Committee