Lipscomb Impact 360
IMPACT 360 is Lipscomb’s strategic plan to lead as a top-tier, nationally recognized institution.
Diversity and belonging is Goal 4 in this plan, which encompasses efforts to create a unified campus environment and provide community for underrepresented individuals.
We value each and every member of the Lipscomb University community. To ensure our students, faculty, staff, and alumni experience a genuine sense of belonging in our community we will:
- Strategy 1: Center policy development and actions on a theology of diversity, reconciliation and justice based on the life and ministry of Jesus and Scripture.
- Strategy 2: Increase hiring and retention of faculty, staff, and administration of historically underrepresented groups; increase the diversity of the University’s leadership in all areas.
- Strategy 3: Provide ongoing support to students, faculty, staff and administration of underrepresented groups.
- Strategy 4: Enhance the University’s engagement with alumni, churches and communities of historically underrepresented groups.
Key indicators of success:
- Increasing sense of belonging amongst students, faculty, and staff in satisfaction surveys
- Robust diversity throughout our community
Active and substantive engagement with historically underrepresented communities
STUDENT ON STAGE AT THE MULTICULTURAL FASHION SHOW PRESENTED BY OID
Respect Leads Diversity Council
The Council is charged to further the promotion of a culture of respectfulness in all quadrants of the university, to provide counsel to university administrators and to lead actions and activities regarding initiatives focused on diversity, inclusion, equity, and community engagement. Specifically, members of the Respect Leads Advisory Council, will provide counsel on initiatives that Lipscomb University plans to undertake intended to enhance and further develop a more respectful university climate. Dr. William Turner, special counsel to the president for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, has been appointed to serve as the Respect Leads chair. The council includes members from across the Lipscomb University.
- Dr. William Lofton Turner (Chair), Distinguished Professor and Special Counsel to the President for Diversity, Equity and Belonging
- Lynette Austin, Dean, College of Health Sciences
- Beki Baker, Chair of the Theatre Department
- Abby Bell, Provost's Office
- Bethy Butler, Adjunct Faculty in English
- Rebecca Clark, Chair of the Social Work Program
- Dr. Kirsten Dodson, Assistant Professor of Engineering
- Dr. Chris Gonzalez, Director of Marriage and Family Therapy
- Dr. David Holmes, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts
- Dr. Richard Hughes, Scholar in Residence in the Center for Christianity & Scholarship
- Dr. Florah Mhlanga, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs
- Dr. Douglas Ribeiro, Chair of Psychology, Counseling and Family Science
- Pamela Scretchen, Instructor, College of Education
- Erica Vasquez, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Sociology
- Candace Williams, Director of the Office of Intercultural Development
- Dr. DeAndrea Witherspoon Nash, Assistant Professor of Psychology
