Division of Student Affairs
Diverse Faculty & Staff Working Group
March 5, 2019 | 10:00am | Lighty.360D + AMS
Attendees:
- 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
Minutes:
Confirm Committee Members, Roles/Responsibilities (see attached)
- 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
Implicit bias training for search committees in development for recruitment of faculty & staff
- 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.
System Wide Equity 101 training
- 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
Equity Advisors to meet with incoming faculty/staff to answer questions related to “life/culture in Pullman”
- 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)
Metric 11 data
- 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
Retention Initiatives
- 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)?
Prep for 3/6 All 5 Working Groups Meeting
- 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
Next meeting Tuesday 4/2 at 10am
- Jason Abrams to re-look at meeting time once roster is confirmed