Division of Student Affairs

Diverse Faculty & Staff Working Group

Theresa Elliot-Cheslek (responsible admin), Associate Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer, Human Resource Services, Pullman
Phyllis Erdman (co-chair), Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Education, Pullman
Jaime Nolan, AVP Student Affairs-CEIE
Courtney Benjamin, Research Assistant, Cultural Studies, Pullman
James Dalton, Office of Veterans Affairs, Pullman
Kate McAteer, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Tri-Cities
Dan Records, Coordinator, Office for Equal Opportunity, Pullman
Mary Rezac, Dean, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, Pullman
Catherine Cooper, Associate Professor, School of the Environment and Commission of the Status of Women, Pullman
Jason Abrams, Assistant to Associate Vice President, Student Affairs, Pullman

Current roster (which includes many very senior members) makes it challenging to schedule this group regularly. Request AVP’s, VP’s, Dean’s etc select a proxy
Jason to email all current members to confirm intention to continue serving

Theresa and H.R. recruitment specialist distro’ing current resource across other campus recruitment coordinators and area finance officers. This is an interim measure resource/ while we continue to develop and refine our more comprehensive toolkit.
https://hrs.wsu.edu/managers/recruitment-toolkit/
https://hrs.wsu.edu/managers/recruitment-toolkit/implicit-bias/
Request to send this info out to all 5 Working Group members (Jason to distro).
Jaime & team available to provide in person trainings when requested.

Includes equity training + implicit bias training
Being developed out Student Affairs Equity Training Group (lead by Jaime) – in initial stages
Tier 1 toolkit
Tier 2 toolkit

Work in progress; initial conversation stages; working to articulate this better
What we’re looking for in relation to Equity Fellow (and equity advisors)
Resource guide (especially for people from under-represented communities) – need to draft and publish this
Connection to affinity groups
Concurrent development of these resources across all campuses to mirror this model from Pullman campus
Look at Univ of Minnesota’s current model
Network with Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Centers (Pullman & Moscow)

2018-2019 data has been aggregated and is being submitted to the President & Provost
In depth analysis reviewed
Dean or VP gets quarterly report for closed recruitments showing reports (self-disclosing) by race/gender.
Dan Records to connect with Obie Ford to share this in-depth analysis
Future State Modernization - Workday implementation should improve analytics capabilities

Need to consider what retention initiatives to put in place
Look at current retention data
Discuss and leverage current activities currently in place across all campuses (Obie Ford /Renny Christopher to advise)?

Jason Abrams to compile slide recapping today’s meeting and distro to Phyllis/Theresa for review
Dan Records to compile 1-page high level overview of metric 11 data and/or speak to the analytics that have been performed