Committee Members at the December 2, 2024 DEI meeting: Tom Su, Chris Garcia, Jung-In Kim, Caron Westland, Nicole Holland, Amy Ferrell
The DEI committee welcomed its new staff member, Nicole Holland. Many thanks to Nicole for agreeing to serve as a liaison between the DEI committee and staff and for devoting her time to this work! We have three initiatives thus far this year: 1) Continue developing a DEI resources repository that can be shared with the entire SEHD as a Canvas shell. 2) Several DEI committee members will reach out to faculty advisors of existing student groups in the SEHD to ask for permission to attend a student group meeting in the spring. Our goal is to incorporate student voice into our conversations and overall planning and to open lines of communication more regularly with all stakeholder groups. 3) Create a pulse survey, similar to what ASPIRE uses. If possible, we may request time to take the survey and discuss results as they relate to DEI work at an upcoming faculty/staff retreat.