Division of Student Affairs
Cultural and Resource Centers Work Group
Meeting Minutes
01/10/2019
New Members
- Jessi – group 5
- Josue – group 5
- Sylvia – group 4
- Julie Mercado
Initiatives/Share
- Found on website
- Each meeting have minutes updated and placedonwebsite asap
- Carlos find out how
- Recent by 15th of each month submit reports to Jaime Nolan
- Always let us know about editing
- Short stories (video) about is going on with groups – will goonwebsite
- Insider as well
- Data has been gathered and tasks completed
- Think about future and next set of objectives (Nolan)
- Topic of other groups
- How do we gather or do we have information on diversity of staff and faculty members?
- Metric 11 Drive to 25 – we had meeting (Nolan) – we have great data on faculty and staff (ethnic data)
- Dan Ricard will present a meeting with all big 5 groups
- Help with support and initiatives (report)
- Request for hires will help us with former information
- WSU is an advanced institution
- Summit for all groups will be coming up – topic issues hit last year
- Shared concerns
- Summit will help us all out
- Working on cultural competency training
Updates from Sub Groups
Subgroup 1- Budget and Resources
- Financial report
- Meeting on a weekly bases
- Fiscal people and try to understand numbers and pieces that are cultural center
- Almost done with meetings
- Compare with subgroups 2 and 3
- Narrow data down and [understandable]
Subgroup 2 – Review activities and services at WSU
- How do we information out to students?
- Application(s)
- Giant spreadsheet provided
- Still being held at this point before placing it on [share folder]
- Questions asked
- How is cultural center defined?
- Look at populations
- Group missing
- Dreaming conversation
- What services and activities provided/legally
- For example, AAPI services AAPI, but can help out everybody, not just only AAPI populace
- Figure out how to communicate to school that all the resources from MSS is for all students
- Find the gaps/space and serve everyone
- May be simpler for academic units than maybe centers to provide [space] for all students (Rodriguez-Vivaldi)
- Qualitative and Quantitative data together would be wonderful [to have] in working with students (Nolan) and Rodriguez - Vivaldi agrees
- Undocumented and underserved populace (asylum or incarcerated) – how to support them better (prison to school), and veterans
- Crimson Group – at Mestizo center/ Mariposa Creative Care – student-led pilot program
- Legal clinics to be placed there
Subgroup 4- Meredith and Carlos
- Benchmark report (James Bolden) – best practices and models to look at
Subgroup 5
- Final Report
- Polish
- Report
- Tri-Cities report (cultural center)
- Identifying gaps
- Recommendations
- Agencies
- Models
- Personal staffing
- Financial piece
- How do we gauge success
- Action steps
- Ideas send things to us (donna)
Subgroup 6
- Partners
- WSU Foundation
- ASWSU
- Campus community
- Off-campus as well
Next meeting February 13