It has become clear that this sort of initiative is more important than academics at many schools.

The College Fix reports.

Cal Poly debuts sweeping diversity plan targeting orientation, curricula, faculty hiring and more

Student activists say plan falls short

Administrators at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo have announced a sweeping plan to infuse “Diversity and Inclusivity” into most facets of campus life, an “action plan” that aims to insert such efforts into everything from Greek Life and freshman orientation to the curricula and the skin color of students and faculty.

The “Diversity and Inclusivity Action Plan,” released recently to the campus on the heels of student protests claiming the public university is fraught discrimination toward minorities, includes a long list of strategies, some of which are already underway.

Although the plan is presented as a “draft,” campus leaders pledged to “implement” it in a recent email to the campus community.

Suggested action items campus leaders say are already “underway” or will likely be soon include to: hire more faculty and staff of color; recruit more student of color; add more diversity programming into freshman orientation; develop a program to combat stigmas surrounding mental health issues; create an “anonymous online reporting system”; encourage more “underrepresented students” to get involved in student government; hire a program director to support “culturally based clubs”; develop an “ally” program; and include standards for diversity and inclusion in the Greek organization review process.

Underscoring all that, campus leaders have also proposed “mandatory cultural awareness training for all students”; more support for undocumented students; “new diversity related curriculum requirements”; and the hiring of more faculty who are experts in diversity.

In an email to the campus community, additional efforts outlined include to advance “diversity learning objectives,” as well as hire “a program director to provide diversity and inclusivity training and program support to faculty, staff, departments, and campus programs.”