{"content":[{"text":"To: Senate Executive Committee \n From: Elizabeth Alice Clement, Chair of the University Diversity Committee \n Date: March 31, 2016","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.091347,"width":0.606738,"height":0.05162699999999999}},{"text":"I have written this memo about the workings of the University Diversity Committee in \n the hopes that the Senate could establish a structure that would make it more effective \n voice for diversity and inclusion on campus. I am doing so as chair of the committee. \n Although this memo was circulated to the committee I only received feedback from six \n members (three over the email, and three in our most recent meeting.)","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.161044,"width":0.684612,"height":0.086476}},{"text":"I have served on the University Diversity Committee for four years and have chaired it \n for two. In my two years as a committee member, I experienced it as a do-nothing \n committee that either had little independent work to accomplish.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.265589,"width":0.6804950000000001,"height":0.05162699999999998}},{"text":"Two years ago I was asked to serve as the chair the UDC. I agreed to accept the position \n as chair, if, and only if, we received a concrete set of tasks. I then asked AVP Stockton if \n there was anything she would like us to do. AVP Stockton indicated that it would be \n helpful if the committee investigated two issues: \n A mentoring program for diverse faculty and staff \n Develop questions for exit interviews for faculty and staff that addressed diversity","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.335286,"width":0.702858,"height":0.10389999999999999}},{"text":"Given a clear charge, I agreed to serve as chair. For a variety of reasons, including the \n new faculty diversity hiring initiative introduced by VP Ruth Watkins, the committee \n focused first on the issue of mentoring diverse junior faculty. We approached this task \n from three directions: looking into what the PAC-12 was doing, researching best \n practices coming out of the social science literature, and assessing what resources for \n mentoring and diversity the University already had. We completed these tasks and made \n our recommendations, in the form of two long reports, and two shorter summary reports, \n which were submitted to the Senate Executive Committee in January. Some of the \n findings in these reports are being used in the development of a pilot mentoring program \n in the College of Humanities that will be implemented in the fall. This program will serve \n all new faculty, but its planning has been deeply influenced by what we have learned \n about effective strategies for mentoring diverse faculty. Depending on the success of that \n program, AVP Stockton plans to develop similar mentoring programs in all colleges at \n the University.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.457256,"width":0.704812,"height":0.24321800000000005}},{"text":"The committee also conducted a literature search on mentoring staff. The results of that \n research have been turned over to the PCSW (Presidential Commission on the Status of \n Women) as the chair of the PCSW (VP Mary Anne Berzins) indicated that her committee \n would like to take over those tasks.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.718543,"width":0.7026049999999999,"height":0.06905199999999989}},{"text":"In the course of the last two years, however, other problems related to the committee \n have arisen that have prompted me to suggest that we think hard about how this \n committee is structured, staffed, and given directives.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.805664,"width":0.664207,"height":0.051627999999999896}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.495098,"top":0.937635,"width":0.00980399999999998,"height":0.01677899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}