Best Practices for Diversity and Inclusion

• Department Diversity Metrics Checklist 
• Inclusive Teaching Practices
• Reducing Discrimination by Making Heterogeneity Salient

Departmental Climate Survey for Graduate Students

Below are resources for a climate survey. You can find instructions on the how to implement the climate survey here.

• Departmental Climate Survey Download Link (QSF File)
• Instructions for how to import QSF files into Qualtrics
• Climate Survey Data Cleaning R Script
• Climate Survey Data Analysis R Script

Other Climate Surveys

Below are digital copies of climate surveys from various institutions. You can find the summaries of all the surveys here. Summaries of climate survey constructs for students and instructors are also available.

• American Association of University Professors – Faculty Classroom Diversity Questionnaire
• Climate survey at Carnegie classified Doctoral/ Research University in the Rocky Mountain region
• NYU – dental program climate survey
• University of California campus climate (survey at the appendix)
• University of Hawaii at Manoa – campus climate survey
• UCLA – diverse learning environments survey
• Higher Education Research Institute – Freshman Survey 2015
• Higher Education Research Institute – Your First College Year Survey
• Higher Education Research Institute – College Senior Survey
• Higher Education Research Institute – faculty survey – campus climate module
• Madison Metropolitan School District – Parent Climate Survey
• Washington University – Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences survey
• Virginia Tech – undergraduate climate survey