The purpose of the Mission and Belonging Committee is "to promote and support the integration of Fairfield’s mission and its values into the academic community and act as a resource for faculty development in these areas. To attend particularly to the mission’s call to celebrate the dignity of all human persons and to 'value the diversity which their membership brings to the university community,'” and to choose "one member to attend and participate in meetings of the Mission and Identity Committee of the Board of Trustees . . . per the standing invitation of the Board" Fairfield University Faculty Handbook, , p. 19.