1. IDEA Center Basic vs. Premiere Center

2. Committee Members  Lelli Van Den Einde, Chair  Farhat Beg, Secretary  Pedro Cabrales  CK Cheng  Lisa French  Tara Javidi  Erica Kosa  Espoir M Kyubwa  Terrence Mayes  Hared Ochoa  Ebonee Williams

3. Meetings  July 20, 2010 – Kick-off meeting  August 3, 2010  August 17, 2010  September 2, 2010  September 14, 2010  September 24, 2010  October 5, 2010

4. Activities  Developed Mission Statement  Researched existing diversity centers and programs  University of Colorado, Boulder  University of Texas  Cornell  UCLA  UC Berkeley  University of Virginia  USC  University of Tennessee, Knoxville  MIT  Developed proposal for Basic and Premiere levels

5. Mission Statement The IDEA Center promotes I nclusion, D iversity, E xcellence, and A dvancement among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff across the Jacobs School of Engineering. With a focus on outreach, recruitment, retention, and graduation, the center supports the mission of the Jacobs School by fostering the growth of diverse innovative technology leaders for today’s global society.

6. IDEA Center Structure  Four main divisions :  Outreach and Recruitment  Professional Development and Retention  Research  Health and Wellness

7. Basic vs. Premiere Center  Basic center: minimum level of effort needed to really make a difference  Bare bone activities would only be a band-aid  Premiere center: more ambitious set of activities requiring significantly more funds  Basic Center + more…

8. Outreach and Recruitment Basic CenterPremiere Center K-14 outreach: Centralized coordination of existing departmental activities Development of additional multi- disciplinary outreach efforts Collaboration with COSMOSExpansion of COSMOS (more students, scholarships, assist in selection of students) Research Expo for High School Teachers: integrated with Jacobs Research Expo; including workshop to train teachers on research related activities for the classroom Undergraduate Student Recruitment: targeting high school and comm. colleges Graduate Student Recruitment: outreach to successful diversity centers Faculty and Post-Doc Recruitment: Center helps identify good candidates Faculty and Post-Doc Recruitment: Funds for hosting candidates; recruitment of visiting scholars, post docs, and students to focus on diversity research

9. Professional Development & Retention Basic CenterPremiere Center Pre-freshman year prep Third year (retention) prep ENG 1A: required course Freshman Cohorts Red Shirt Program (maybe) Bridge Programs

10. Professional Development & Retention Basic CenterPremiere Center Tutoring Faculty Mentoring (center connects students with faculty volunteers who care about diversity) Faculty Mentoring (Department faculty diversity coordinator conducts 1 on 1 mentorship and is compensated) IDEA academic excellence awards recognizing academic achievement ($2500 for one student per department, honored at end of year banquet) IDEA Scholars (variable scholarships)5 Distinguished Scholars ($25K/year) Peer mentoring: Coordinator matches incoming student with upper level student Academic Excellence

11. Professional Development & Retention Basic CenterPremiere Center Resource Center (centralizing Jacobs School’s collective diversity effort through website clearinghouse) Academic Job Workshops for Ugrad and Grad Students, Post-docs, Faculty Enhancing the Educational Experience (Weekly networking hour, extended lecture series run by IDEA scholars, breakfast with Industry, Leadership Training) Diversity events (Center develop own social, educational, and philanthropic events that promote diversity) Academic Excellence, Contd.

12. Professional Development & Retention Basic CenterPremiere Center Diversity events (Leverage and promote events sponsored by UCSD cross-cultural center) The IDEA Summit (Bring together an international group comprised of leading citizens, politicians, artists, academics, students and community members to focus on finding solutions to one or more topic that relate to inclusion, diversity, engineering excellence or advancement) Distinguished Professors Distinguished Fellows Academic Excellence, Contd.

13. Research Basic CenterPremiere Center Summer volunteer program (hands-on research for ugrads with UCSD faculty) Grant proposals: Coordinate high school teacher/student involvement in research; Support faculty with calls for proposals in general research grants Grant proposals: Support faculty with calls for proposal in diversity research grants Idea Fellows (grad fellowships, first year funding) Distinguished Fellows (full funding for 3 years) Scholarships for travel to conferences (grad and faculty) Visiting Scholars (providing small amount of dollars as supplement to give lectures for seminar series) Distinguished Visiting Professorships (full funding for minimum 3 months)

14. Diversity Research Basic CenterPremiere Center Devise matrices to measure quality of diversity research Explore methodology, policy, strategies to improve diversity in organizations Research history of diversity and future trends Study regulations, practices and utilities to erase barriers for handicaps Serve as consulting center to resolve diversity issues Seminar series related to diversity research (Visiting Professors in Residence requirement)

15. Health & Wellness Basic CenterPremiere Center Counseling Services Staff Web information on stress management, time management, mental health awareness, financial management, wellness, holistic health Workshops, web information on stress management, time management, mental health awareness, financial management, wellness, holistic health (for faculty, staff and students)

16. Staffing Requirements Basic CenterPremiere Center Director: reporting to dean or associate dean Associate Director for Outreach and Recruitment Associate Director for Professional Development and Retention Program Coordinator for ResearchAssociate Director f or Research 2 AAIII Administrative assistants3 AAIII administrative assistants Counseling Psychologist (50% time) Associate Director for Health & Wellness Tutor Coordinator

17. Space Requirements Basic CenterPremiere Center Office space for director and staff Student lounge Tutoring Space Computer Space New or refurbished Engineering Living and Learning Dorm Building New or refurbished IDEA Center building (ideally connected to dorm building)

18. Thank You  Lelli Van Den Einde, Chair  Farhat Beg, Secretary  Pedro Cabrales  CK Cheng  Lisa French  Tara Javidi  Erica Kosa  Espoir M Kyubwa  Terrence Mayes  Hared Ochoa  Ebonee Williams & The Dean for sending out the call to action

19. Mission Statement The IDEA Center promotes I nclusion, D iversity, E xcellence, and A dvancement among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff across the Jacobs School of Engineering. With a focus on outreach, recruitment, retention, and graduation, the center supports the mission of the Jacobs School by fostering the growth of diverse innovative technology leaders for today’s global society.