The Tulane Strategy for Tomorrow is a university-wide strategic planning process to guide our equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and anti-racism initiatives and track our progress from July 1, 2022 through July 1, 2027. While as a community Tulane University has made significant, tangible progress over the past few years, what matters now is how we will build on this progress for the future. Alongside existing university initiatives included in “A Plan for Now” and those led by the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and by our campus units, the Strategy for Tomorrow will set us on a new course, one that engages our full community in a vision for Tulane related to EDI that will help us coordinate our EDI and anti-racism work and progress in measurable, data-informed ways to build a Tulane community.
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April 2021 – May 2021
EDI Inventory is conducted (an environmental scan of Tulane's current EDI and anti-racism initiatives across campus units)
April 2021 – June 2021
Strategy for Tomorrow focus groups are held with students, staff, faculty, administrators, alumni and other community members
June 2021 – October 2021
University Strategy for Tomorrow Committee members develop university plan. Campus leaders select the committee chairs/members to lead the planning process in their campus units and receive a list of questions to prepare for the unit-based Strategy for Tomorrow planning process within their units (e.g., reviewing and gathering existing data, activities, reports). Strategy for Tomorrow chairs and members receive orientation on the timeline and overall planning process
October 18, 2021 6:00 – 8:00 pm; October 20, 2021 9:00 am – 11:00 am; October 24, 2021 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Virtual Community Feedback sessions are held and a Qualtrics link is circulated to receive feedback on the university Strategy for Tomorrow draft.
December 15, 2021
Strategy for Tomorrow university-wide complete and template is shared with all campus units
February 1, 2022
Updates due from campus units about where they are in their planning process. Units may submit a first draft if it is complete for feedback from the EDI Office.
March 15, 2022
Campus units submit the first draft of their Strategy for Tomorrow plans
April 15, 2022
Feedback/revisions on unit-based back Strategy for Tomorrow plans shared from the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, and the Office of General Counsel.
May 16, 2022
Final Strategy for Tomorrow unit plans due
July 1, 2022 – July 1, 2027
Strategy for Tomorrow university-wide and unit plans begin. Campus units report mid-year and annually on the EDI and anti-racism progress for their units to the EDI Office and their immediate supervisors:
The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (Anneliese Singh, Shelby Norman, and Eva Silvestre) with the support of the President, Provost, and Chief Operating Officer convened a university-wide planning committee to review the EDI Inventory (an environmental scan of Tulane's EDI and anti-racism initiatives) and the Strategy for Tomorrow focus group findings.
Committee Lead: Adrienne Colella
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Committee Lead: Brad Booke
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Committee Leads: Linda Peal and Hailey Lange Macdonald
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Committee Lead: Nicole Bush
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Committee Lead: Charvi Greer
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See Chief Operating Officer (COO) Plan
Committee information will be updated soon.
Committee Lead: Toni Weiss
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Committee Lead: Agnieszke Nance
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Committee Lead: Gina Bertrand
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Committee Lead: Jonathan Small
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Committee Lead: Angela Sutton
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Committee Lead: Noel Wong
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Committee Leads: Brian Johnson and Kelly Venable Carroll
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Committee Lead: Amanda Rivera
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Committee information will be updated soon.
Committee Lead: Mike Cunningham
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Committee Lead: Dorothy Mackendrick
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Committee Lead: Julie Henriquez Aldana
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Committee Lead: Lee Skinner
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Committee Lead: Caroline Friou
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Committee Leads: Kady Weingart and Anneliese Singh
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Committee Leads: Roxanne Johnson and Anne-Marie Job
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See Chief Operating Officer (COO) Plan
Committee Lead: Edson Cabalfin
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Committee Lead: Catherine Hancock
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Committee Lead: Brian Edwards
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Committee Lead: Bennetta Horne
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Committee Leads: Suri Duitch and Cynthia Washington
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Committee Lead: Susan Cheng
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Committee Lead: Marie Dillon Dahleh
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Committee Lead: Reggie Parquet
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Committee Leads: Carolyn Barber Pierre and Laura Osteen
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Committee Lead: Julia Broussard
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The following 11 themes were identified in the Strategy for Tomorrow focus groups conducted by an external consulting group with over 300 Tulane community members participating in over 70 focus groups:
The University Strategy for Tomorrow Committee members identified 10 values helpful to consider in guiding the development of the university and unit-based plans and our EDI and anti-racism initiatives and evaluations of our progress. The President’s Office is convening a Values Project that will identify values for the entire university.
If you have questions about the Strategy for Tomorrow, please contact us: