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KU will not be competitive with peer and aspirant institutions until all Jayhawks understand and embody the reality that access, success, respect, and belonging are not additive but rather essential to all parts of the institution. Thus, RISE offers an action-oriented framework which helps advance belonging.</p></div></div><div class="ku-body__sidebar col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 col-md-4 offset-md-0 col-lg-3 offset-lg-1 pt-4 mt-3 pt-md-0 mt-md-0 order-1 order-md-1"><h2> Four Priorities of RISE </h2><ul><li><p>Recruitment & Retention</p></li><li><p>Education, Research, and Scholarship</p></li><li><p>Campus Climate & Infrastructure</p></li><li><p>Community Engagement and Impact</p></li></ul></div></div></section><section class="ku-body-spacer container py-3 paragraph paragraph--type--divider paragraph--view-mode--default" id="section1600"><div class="row"><div class="col-12"><hr class="microdot"></div></div></section><section class="ku-body-1 container py-5 paragraph 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data-toggle="tab" href="#content-1601-3" role="tab" aria-controls="tab-1601-3" aria-selected="false"><h2 class="m-0"> Priority 3 </h2></a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" id="tab-1601-4" data-toggle="tab" href="#content-1601-4" role="tab" aria-controls="tab-1601-4" aria-selected="false"><h2 class="m-0"> Priority 4 </h2></a></li></ul></div><div class="tab-content" id="content-1601"><div class="tab-pane fade py-3 active show" id="content-1601-1" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab-1601-1"><h3>Recruitment & Retention</h3><p>1: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for <em>undergraduate students.</em></p><p>2: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for <em>graduate and professional students.</em></p><p>3: Unit successfully recruits and retains <em>staff and faculty</em>.</p></div><div class="tab-pane fade py-3" id="content-1601-2" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab-1601-2"><h3>Education, Research, and Scholarship</h3><p>1: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for <em>undergraduate students</em>.</p><p>2: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for <em>graduate and professional students</em>.</p><p>3: Unit contributes to and supports <em>employee</em> participation in learning opportunities that foster competence in access, success, respect, belonging, multiple lenses, and intentional pedagogy.</p><p>4: Unit鈥檚 research and scholarship are grounded in multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy.</p></div><div class="tab-pane fade py-3" id="content-1601-3" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab-1601-3"><h3>Campus Climate & Infrastructure</h3><p>1: Unit has completed thorough audit of gaps, pain points, and opportunities for improvement in the areas of access, success, respect, and belonging.</p><p>2: Unit has an evidence-based action plan to address policies, practices, and procedures which may be barriers to advancing access, success, respect, and belonging.</p><p>3: Unit implements components of action plan in order to improve access, success, respect, and belonging.</p><p>4: Unit has articulated how intersectional standards of excellence apply to their work and have set up accountability protocols.</p><p>5: Unit has committed financial resources, personnel, and incentives which enable unit to realize intersectional standards of excellence.</p><p>6: Create and sustain efforts to obtain grants, opportunities, and gifts which advance intentional standards of excellence.</p></div><div class="tab-pane fade py-3" id="content-1601-4" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab-1601-4"><h3>Community Engagement and Impact</h3><p>1: When connecting with populations throughout Kansas, the region, and country, the unit ensures the work is mutually beneficially and culturally sustaining.</p><p>2: Unit, as applicable, supplies leadership in access, success, respect, and belonging throughout Kansas, in the region, and across the country.</p><p>3: When applicable, the unit uses its position to help improve the University鈥檚 positive economic impact on communities throughout Kansas, in the region, and across the country.</p></div></div></section><section class="ku-accordion 'pt-0 pb-2 d-lg-none" id="accordion1601"><div class="row"><div class="col-12"><div class="card"><button class="card-header" id="heading-1601-0" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-1601-0" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-1601-0"><h2 class="m-0 p-0"> Priority 1 </h2><i class="fas fa-chevron-down ku-accordion__icon"></i><span class="sr-only">Click to expand</span></button><div id="collapse-1601-0" class="collapse" aria-labelledby="heading-1601-0" data-parent="#accordion1601"><div class="wysiwyg card-body"><h3>Recruitment & Retention</h3><p>1: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for <em>undergraduate students.</em></p><p>2: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for <em>graduate and professional students.</em></p><p>3: Unit successfully recruits and retains <em>staff and faculty</em>.</p></div></div></div><div class="card"><button class="card-header" id="heading-1601-1" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-1601-1" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-1601-1"><h2 class="m-0 p-0"> Priority 2 </h2><i class="fas fa-chevron-down ku-accordion__icon"></i><span class="sr-only">Click to expand</span></button><div id="collapse-1601-1" class="collapse" aria-labelledby="heading-1601-1" data-parent="#accordion1601"><div class="wysiwyg card-body"><h3>Education, Research, and Scholarship</h3><p>1: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for <em>undergraduate students</em>.</p><p>2: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for <em>graduate and professional students</em>.</p><p>3: Unit contributes to and supports <em>employee</em> participation in learning opportunities that foster competence in access, success, respect, belonging, multiple lenses, and intentional pedagogy.</p><p>4: Unit鈥檚 research and scholarship are grounded in multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy.</p></div></div></div><div class="card"><button class="card-header" id="heading-1601-2" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-1601-2" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-1601-2"><h2 class="m-0 p-0"> Priority 3 </h2><i class="fas fa-chevron-down ku-accordion__icon"></i><span class="sr-only">Click to expand</span></button><div id="collapse-1601-2" class="collapse" aria-labelledby="heading-1601-2" data-parent="#accordion1601"><div class="wysiwyg card-body"><h3>Campus Climate & Infrastructure</h3><p>1: Unit has completed thorough audit of gaps, pain points, and opportunities for improvement in the areas of access, success, respect, and belonging.</p><p>2: Unit has an evidence-based action plan to address policies, practices, and procedures which may be barriers to advancing access, success, respect, and belonging.</p><p>3: Unit implements components of action plan in order to improve access, success, respect, and belonging.</p><p>4: Unit has articulated how intersectional standards of excellence apply to their work and have set up accountability protocols.</p><p>5: Unit has committed financial resources, personnel, and incentives which enable unit to realize intersectional standards of excellence.</p><p>6: Create and sustain efforts to obtain grants, opportunities, and gifts which advance intentional standards of excellence.</p></div></div></div><div class="card"><button class="card-header" id="heading-1601-3" data-toggle="collapse" 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