Notes by A. Leavitt
Agenda:
1. Payroll: how to use - will be
due the meeting before the 13th of each month
2. Diversity Packet - FYI -includes
original list of demands
3. Updates - see notes below
4. Announcements
5. Next Meeting: Tuesday, July 6th
5 -7; then Tuesday July 13th - 5-7; then we’ll reschedule if a daytime
becomes available (administrators will sometimes attend only first portion
of the meeting)
6. Sharing Materials (not discussed)
7. Logistics
*Spencer will check with Senate
re: copying account
*MCC will be our headquarters and
meeting room
*Huy will be at MCC from 12 on if
people need access
*Dave Hubin to create a list serve
"summerinterns@list"
*Nathaniel will mail us the working
draft of "Pledge of Respect"
*in future - interns will each put
their weekly updates on the listserv
*Missy is working on the webpage
for the summer projects
Notes from Intern Updates:
Jessica: resources
that support diversity and student services research the university organization
and structure goals include: looking at existing infrastructure looking
at need for staffing for MCC looking at need for vice pres-student affairs
making admin more student-centered
mentor: Gwen Tistadt
resources: Dan Williams,
Jan Oliver, Stephanie Carnahan, John Moseley, Jim Buch, Jane DeGidio, &
faculty - for historical perspectives + students - who have been around
other schools -
Huy suggested OSU - 3 possible names
NASPA web page
mission statement
Nathaniel: faculty
diversity training (John Riordan on this topic as well)
video - to use during presentations,
with a facilitator, to comment, keep
messages consistent (15 to 20 minutes)
video - to document our process
contact: Troy
resources: Tim Gleason/Journalism,
Denise Matthews, IMC, students
check with Julia LeSage -
suggestion: find someone
who didn’t "survive" with us to include in tape
can we watch the video Julia has
prepared; the one Carla is using
(Shattering the Silence)
use David Frank to help with crafting
messages
film Annelah when she returns to
campus (July 10th?)
TEP can help
see if we can get Susan on film
(she’s in California?)
Spencer: fundraising
- for research institute; other initiatives
-will meet with Duncan
-sees two areas for focus
l -strategies
for fundriaisng to support student diversity initiatives
1 - more farreaching
- alumni -create materials to state the case;develop
-list of things alumni can fundraise
for
-resource: Mia Tuan for Research
Instittute (RI)
would be both
theory and practice in same building
-will check with Carla Gary
-outcomes might be 2 reports
l - research
- everywhere there is something similar to the research institute idea
- reach conclusions about
good things/bad things about the proposed theoreatical/practical institute
1 - report of
funding sources available - Mia Tuan has a list - e.g. grants that pay
start-up costs of doing the
reserach to find ##
-use internet
-use people on campus
-develop questions to ask each place
Jason: recruitment/retention
of faculty/staff/students
objective: measurable impact on
programs and policies in place; is broad
working with Carla Gary
l. specific measurable things this
fall
2 formulate policies and recommendations:
R&R of more students: social
and academic programs needed to keep students interested in being here
-
social: more for returning students
of color (cf OMA retreat for new) coalition building; a returning students
retreat;
-will need budget; look for funding
-follow with event each month
-academic - honors program: doing
research for professors; ways to draw students in - $ is there; need develop
application process and awareness
-R&R of more faculty: Carla,
John Moseley
-idea: 2 year visiting professorship
- junior or post-doc faculty to UO, collaborative research with senior
faculty
-need to find resources : for GTFs
-retention is harder: need build
community; address pay issues; etc.
-staff: work with ASUO/Hong Tran,
Ken Lehrman, Patty Lopez
-maybe a job satisfaction survey
- maybe need intrinsic rewards system’
(note: Jason gone 6/30 - 7/5)
Huy: student diversity
training and help with other projects
-need messages throughout whole
transition: residence halls, IntroDUCKtion,
Week of Welcome, etc.
-messages should be present from
the beginning -re being welcoming etc.
-pledge of respect can be used
-perhaps a video or movie
-more awareness of how we present
this university
mentor: Larry Blake Jones, Troy,
OMA, Patty Lopez :use ORIENTATION - get into their programs
Missy: coordinating
intern
- with Dave F., Dave H., Anne L.
- list serve
- payroll
- website - working with Hong Tuan
- ASUO MCA position
- looking at conferences
- MCC to be central location - support,
work space
- need to assure dialogue among
ourselves - so we can feel like a community
- some social events - potluck -
mid-July, maybe barbeque, softball, etc. perhaps at the longhouse or a
park
- future meeting(s) with deans,
department heads -maybe a reception
- check with Carla or Robert Melnick
re deans and follow-up
- need an end of summer or fall
kick-off activity; perhaps a speaker like Tim Wise-
- objectives include: coalition
building, community building, paper trail,
- notebook for archives, keeping
track of everyone
- we should e-mail Missy about our
contacts, work progress, resources,
- we should periodically update
Steering Committee - a written report or email or ???
- some sort of report at the end
on what has been accomplished
Kathleen - educational
environment....reaching middle majority
-working on survey ideas with Tris
O’Shaunessey
-mentor for ways to reach middle
majority - perhaps Laura Blake Jones
-how to learn about them:
-how to reach them: what range/group
are we trying to connect with
-maybe Gerry Burke, Racial Task
Force, Larry Roper/OSU
-talk with Huy
-Bridge panel - LGBT group - as
a strategy
-include women’s issues on this
campus in concept of diversity
-also non-traditional in age
Jessie - affirming/sustaining
diversity
-conduct code
-hate speech/hate crimes
-e-mail
-housing
-other schools
-proposals to improve services by
OPS, Office of Student Life, etc.
-pledge of respect: Lisa Freinkel,
Matt Llewellyn, Nathaniel, Stephanie Carnahan, and Melinda Grier
-make it something visible on campus
-perhaps find ways to use art -
as symbols, signage - for images on campus
Jennifer Rosen: diversity
and our curiculum
-research on what other universities
are doing - best ways to incorporate
-diversity into our curriculum
-one idea: course evaluations
-talking with Mia Tuan - some problems
with demographics
-re-evaluation of what courses do
and should count - perhaps with Rob Proudfoot
-Gerry Burke, David Frank - FAC
resources, Carla Gary
-some good resources on internet:
e.g. NYState -Buffalo - require courses on broad diversity issues
John Riordan - faculty
diversity training faculty/staff/administration
-different programs for different
staff - or just focus on faculty?
-resources Carla, Jack Rice, Cris
Cullinan
-reformmating our presentation to
departments - make it dept based
-meet with whomever is around -as
many as can
-get help from them in forming ideas;
create ownership
-use new faculty orientation
-get door open to faculty for direct
training across campus: new way to refer to it,
-not as "diversity training", but
"facilitated dialogue"
-check web; use UO library diversity
advisory group, stay in touch with FAC,
-Senate Executive, faculty who are
interested (give him ideas)
-check in with TEP (Georgianne Cooper,
Michael Sweet, Jack Rice); Randy Choy