The PROJECT HERE Institutional Assessment Tool was designed to help institutions in their ongoing work to be more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and supportive of the full participation and success of all their members. This tool is designed for use by a team of institutional and community stakeholders to assess the current infrastructure, alignment, and practice of the institution around its commitment to anti-racism and full participation. It is intended to help spur conversation, reflection, and further action by the institution to work towards being a fully inclusive, multicultural, and anti-racist institution. As a tool for self-assessment, using the tool may help the institution to identify concrete strategies that it might take to move further along the continuum to equity.
The tool is designed as a rubric. Each indicator has five levels which describe the current practice. Level one is intended to describe an institutional context that is resistant to inclusion. Level five is intended to describe an institution actively working (across levels and units) to practice full participation. At the highest levels, the institution may even be considering forms of reparations and reconciliation for historical wrongdoing. Because the tool is intended, however, to motivate productive change, we recommend that the team completing it be fair, comprehensive, and ethical in its use.
Project H.E.R.E. (Higher Education Reparations Engagement) 