1. STUDENT PLAN & STAFF PLAN
Student Life Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Strategic Plan
Fall 2016 Accomplishments
PLAN SPONSORS
STUDENT PLAN & STAFF PLAN
Vice President for Student Life Royster Harper; Associate Vice Presidents Anjali Anturkar, Loren Rullman, and Simone Himbeault Taylor; and Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones
Authored and introduced a final DE&I strategic plan informed by extensive staff and student input and a year-long planning process
Received DE&I stabilization funding for existing positions and funding for 7.5 new FTEs for units devoted to DE&I work and $450,000 to implement the IDI pilot initiative
Developed and launched a website outlining the DE&I plan
Launched the DE&I Plan’s Implementation Infrastructure, appointing Implementation Leads, Sponsors, Strategic Lead Chairs, Strategic Lead Teams and several Action Teams
Launched the DE&I plan implementation project staff website
Achieved the first implementation milestone: all Strategic Leads worked with their teams to prepare and submit “Year One Work Plans” by November due date
Built-up staff capacity to support DE&I efforts:
Began developing position descriptions and staffing plan for new positions in CCI, IC, IGR, MESA and Spectrum
Posted two Assessment Staff Positions (a research lead position & project manager position) on schedule for target start date in January (in-person interviews scheduled for December)
Developed OVPSL’s Strategic Ops Team to support DE&I effort (assigning Anita Bohn and Lindsey Ferguson and hiring Jennifer Schrage to lead strategic operations)
Developed and launched undergraduate/graduate DE&I Student Advisory Groups to facilitate student engagement in campus-wide DE&I plans
Began compiling existing assessment data for staff DE&I plan
Began compiling existing assessment data for student DE&I plan
Strengthen
Innovate
Assess
Implementation Teams
Institutional Implementation Leads:
Mary Jo Callan
Judith Pennywell
Anna Ruszkiewicz
Staff Plan Chair: Anna Ruszkiewicz
Strategic Lead Team
Anita Bohn, Kerin Borland, Steve Mangan, Todd Sevig
Strengthen Chair: Will Sherry
Trey Boynton, Mary Jo Callan, Sarah Daniels, Amanda McLittle, Erik Wessel
Strengthen Chair: Jackie Simpson
Michael Swanigan & Others (TBD)
Strengthen Chair: Monita Thompson
Kerin Borland, Mary Jo Callan, Judith Pennywell
Innovate Chair: Marilyn Tyus
Mary Jo Desprez, Judith Pennywell, Jackie Simpson, Michael Widen
Assess Chair: Holly Rider-Milkovich
Lisa Harris, Stuart Segal, Pat Gurin
Student Engagement Chair: Amir Baghadadchi
Nate Hill, Sarah Button, Abby Fanelli, Zikra Hussain
Strategic Ops Team: Jennifer Schrage (Lead), Anita Bohn & Lindsey Ferguson
Key Deliverables
By March 15 “Phase Gate”
First student cohort for IDI launched
Assessment positions filled/staff on board
CCI, IC, IGR, MESA and Spectrum Positons – posted/filled/staff on board
Inventory of advocacy, support and enrichment efforts complete
Inventory of FYE efforts complete
Inventory of Schools/Colleges Partnership requests/needs complete
Summary of Plan
In summary, Student Life’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan goals are to:
1) strengthen existing DE&I efforts;
2) encourage innovation with key strategic pilot initiatives: and
3) improve assessment capacity to ensure our DE&I work is more data-driven.