CSUN's Commitment to You:

CSUN is committed to achieving excellence through teaching, scholarship, learning, and inclusion. Our values include a respect for all people, building partnerships with the community, and the encouragement of innovation, experimentation, and creativity. CSUN strives to cultivate a community in which a diverse population can learn and work in an atmosphere of civility and respect. CSUN is especially interested in candidates who make contributions to equity and inclusion in the pursuit of excellence for all members of the University community.

The University:

One of the largest universities in the country, California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is an urban, comprehensive University that delivers award- winning undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 36,000 students annually and counts more than 400,000 alumni who fuel the region’s economy. Since its founding in 1958, CSUN has made a significant and long-term economic impact on California, generating nearly $1.9 billion in economic impact and nearly 12,000 jobs each year. CSUN is a designated Minority-Serving and Hispanic Serving Institution, ranking amongst the top twenty in the nation in graduating Latinx students. More than 70 percent of CSUN students are first-generation college students, and 60 percent come from historically underrepresented groups. Money magazine consistently ranks CSUN among the nation’s “most transformative” colleges for putting diverse students on the path to higher career earnings.

About the Position:

The inaugural Vice President for Equity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer (VPEI) reports to the President and serves as the University’s executive-level innovator and strategist responsible for guiding efforts and creating opportunities to embed and ensure the centrality of CSUN’s core values of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging (i.e. core equity values) across all aspects of the University. As an integrating partner and collaborator, the VPEI proactively leads, develops and implements plans, programs, and activities that advance and operationalize the University’s mission and values as well as the strategic directions, priorities and core equity values outlined in CSUN’s Road Ahead. As the first administrator to occupy this position, the VPEI will help further define the equity infrastructure needed to establish CSUN as a university that leads and lives up to its commitments to provide a campus culture where all students and employees from historically marginalized, underserved or underrepresented communities can thrive. The VPEI develops strong relationships with the Office of Equity & Compliance and makes referrals to address discrimination, harassment and civil rights violations.

The VPEI employs a data informed approach to enact or change practices and structures to guide the University in becoming a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive campus. The VPEI supports the highest quality learning environment in support of student success and equitable educational opportunities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership & Management

• Develops, leads and champions efforts that operationalizes CSUN’s vision and commitment to inclusive excellence and an equitable educational and working environment.
• Working collaboratively with University Cabinet, drives the integration of core equity values into planning and goal setting processes, including core equity values into our operational infrastructure to inform decision-making, academic and student programs, administrative operations, resource allocations, fundraising priorities, campus communications and other structures that impact campus culture and the experiences of students and employees.
• Provides innovative, visionary leadership for the development or revision of University policies, structures, practices and procedures that promote an inclusive culture and are in alignment with campus values to enable members of the community to achieve their full potential and function effectively in a diverse, inclusive environment.
• Leads efforts to establish and promote accountability for learning and action on justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging from a place of compassion, respect and care.
• Provides leadership and management of an expanding team of professionals in the Office of Equity & Inclusion in order to support and operationalize the University’s equity infrastructure in alignment with CSUN’s

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