“…Having grown in prominence over the past several decades, diversity plans operate as a tool for DEI organizational change. However, the examination of diversity plans at land-grant institutions and community colleges, has shown how they advance color evasive language, present a deficit framework around students, and include a significant level of heterogeneity (Casellas Connors, 2021, 2022; Ching et al, 2018; Felix et al, 2018; Iverson, 2007). Specific to land-grant universities, Iverson (2005, 2007) highlights how diversity plans were not neutral, but position students of color as outsiders, disadvantaged, and at-risk and perpetuate exclusionary campus practices that reinforce inequality.…”