Key Achievements: CAMPUS COMMUNITY
Fall 2019, Review of Programs with internal stakeholders
Fall 2019, Reefs of Diversity White Paper on local and institutional context, demographic shifts focus
Fall 2019, Reefs of Diversity Presentations to Senior Management and Board of Trustees
Fall 2019, CDO Utah Board of Higher Education & Board of Regents presentations
Fall 2019 with President’s Office
Institutional Research – Introduced qualitative embedded inquiry and improved a department that did largely business data analytics
Direct 1-on-1 Outreach to 70+ staff, faculty and students in informal Listening Tour
Collective Listening Tour process established with Cabinet (1 Provost, 5 Vice-Presidents) engaging 3,000 senior and administrative staff and faculty resulting in Divisional EDI Divisional Road Maps
Fall 2019 Human Resources & Recruiting Projects:
– Grew from 15 to 50 employees per year including Search Advocates Training for Hiring Committees, Equity-Minded Practitioner Faculty Course, and College-wide inclusion initiative
Spring 2020 – Advised on the review of the Diverse Faculty Fellowship, and made recommendations for relaunching a faculty-wide initiative to be jointly housed in Provosts Academic Affairs Office and People and Workplace Culture Divisions
Fall 2020/Spring 2021 – Established the Professional Development Training Cluster “Transformative Experiences” focused on anti-racist and inclusive awareness and education trainings
Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Established a joint web landing page for Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion for the College, with a banner on the main page linking educational events, resources for students, staff and faculty, as well as governance systems
Student Safety and Belonging:
Brought together a three-steward team to respond and analyze process for Hate & Bias Reporting form on Maxient
As a result, established the Hate & Bias Reporting Protocol and Matrix for Incident Response Team between the steward of Office of Dean of Students (Counseling Center), Public Safety Office (Campus Police), EEO & Human Resources, and Office of Strategic Communications and Office of Diversity & Multicultural Affairs
Shorten response time to racially motivated bias incidents and hate crimes and create communication channels to affected communities and developing a Heat Map for reporting to Northwest Accreditation and internal divisions to increase response to complaints of hate, racism and bias
Engaged Stakeholders and Established New equity and justice programs for Formerly Incarcerated Students (FIS) in the Education and Workforce Training space
Fall 2019 Co-Founded Utah Reintegration Project, wrap around student services for the Prison Education Program and Campus Internship job opportunity for Formerly Incarcerated Students (FIS)
Fall 2019 Second Chance Summit Workforce Education and Training Committee Fall 2019 to plan an employers summit for educating about formerly incarcerated workforce opportunities on hold due to COVID-19
JEDI Empowered Communities annual dialogue with Campus Police & School of Public Safety Summer 2020 response to George Floyd murder with Student Government Councils strengthening new student positions for EDI
Disability Resource Center
continued successful Universal Access Trainings and advised to make them compulsory, established success matrix for disability access in college event programming (including establishing a central pool for transcription and closed captioning)
Gender and Sexuality Student Resource Center for Womxn – LGBQTI+
Shared JEDI Conferences Womxns History Month, Queer Studies, MMIWG
Formerly Incarcerated Students Inclusion and Belonging
Established the JEDI Hub for warm handoffs with Prison Education Program
Offered 5 Campus Internships to FIS
Developed URP Project into a Student Club providing support and fellowship during the transition phase
Proposed a new FT position of Transition Coordinator to support the JEDI Hub and Prison Education Program
Enhanced and Strengthened Community Engagement Offices / Improved K12 Pipeline Success & Family Engagement Program in the Justice space
P20 Alliance strengthened College engagement visibility with K12 stakeholders
Ethnic Studies introduced into Concurrent Enrollment Program which had a 78% White participation rate in a county with a 31% ethnic minority ratio
PREP for Middle Schoolers piloted through a private corporate grant
Originated the Juvenile Justice NEST Orientation Program pilot with Juvenile Probation Officers and District Judges
Established a new K12 partnership dedicating a GED campus classroom and office space with K12 District to improve Adult and Juvenile access
Office of Sponsored Projects – Grant development
Diverse Faculty Fellowship Grants Development improved access to emerging professionals of diverse backgrounds (racial, religious, gender, neurodiverse and differently abled)
Complete Count Census Project ($21,000) targeted undercounted populations (community college students)
Letter of Intent for equity and racial justice Research project of $600,000 submitted
Faculty Senate & Provost Office
Supported the College Anti-Racism Declaration passed in April 2021
Mainstreamed justice into EDI work via the JEDI Committee in January 2021
Proposed and advised Provost during summer 2021 on establishing 6 Faculty School Committees for EDICT with a Discussion Team model addressing inequities in completion rate as a result of Eurocentric empiricism and colonial curriculum
School of Arts & Communication
Embedded Martin Luther King Jr. College Wide Commemorative Event into the Faculty ranks, led by Dean
Deans Council – established regular JEDI reports from Deans to EDICT
Data Governance Council – embedded JEDI Monitoring and Metrics Subcommittee with a charge to mainstream EDI into program reviews and develop deeply qualitative and transformational approaches and methods into bureaucratic contexts using Design Thinking and other innovative transformational leadership