Nathaniel Bachelder
I met yesterday with Dave and Anne to talk
about moving the Pledge of Respect into the public sphere. This morning
I met with Dave, Anne, Jen, Jason, and Tom from the University Communications
department to talk about a website for campus diversity and other ways
of making the work that is being done more visible to the public. Jason
is going to work
closely with Tom on designing the website. We need to come up with
a list of FAQ's to go on the website concerning campus issues of diversity
so help! =)
I also met with Gwen Tistadt this morning
and talked about ideas for the video. She reminded me that I really need
to know my target audience, and I believe my target audience is mostly
faculty, staff, and administrators. I would like this video to be viewed
by students, but feel that perhaps in the future another video could be
developed that targets
students specifically.
Jessica Billingslea
Nothing reported
Spencer Hamlin
Nothing Reported
Jason Mak
This week I met with Joe Wade of Academic Advising
and talked about students on probation and strategies for retaining undergrads.
It has become very clear that the key to R&R of underrepresented students
lies in
better preparing them for college as early as possible in K-12.
I also attended Carla's Forum for Affirmative Action. I am still
trying to evaluate how that went. I met Thursday with Hubin, Jen,
Anne, Nathaniel, and Tom Hager on doing/creating a Diversity Website.
I was appointed to work with Tom on it. I also had a meeting with
Provost Mosely on R&R of Faculty. Not much new stuff came out
of it that I hadn't already heard from others. Just evaluating how
programs that are currently in place are doing seems to be a need. My last
meeting was with Linda Liu of OMA, who
gave me some interesting recommendations from 1994, which seems to
be closely related to what we are doing. I'll show you all at our
meeting today.
Huy Ong
Nothing Reported
Missy Rock
was on Vacation - was at Steering Committee Meeting on Monday August
16th, please check those notes for events.
Jon Riordan
Nothing Reported - left for vacation
Jennifer Rosen
I met with Anne about the course evaluations
and we got some really good ideas together. We talked about getting
a committee together to discuss changes (with a student rep on it).
The evaluation software has to be changed to include 2 more questions and
what we're thinking is that since money is already being spent they might
as well revamp the
entire thing.
We are going to use the business school's
eval as a base and see what people think. A new eval should be ready
for testing by winter, with the help of a gtf. Also we're proposing
that a committee (GTF?) be set up to evaluate the results and do something
with them. We are each going to write up a proposal for Jack Rice
by Mon. or Tues. I'm meeting with Karen Sprauge tomorrow about the pathways
program to see if that could be one avenue of getting a "diversity" curriculum
implemented.
Met with Dave, Anne, Tom Hagar, Jason and
Nathaniel today about the web page. The feedback seemed really positive
and it looks like we will have a web page ASAP, with everyone's help of
course. Finally I'm meeting with Gerry Berk in about an hour, so I'll let
you all know what happens there.
Jessie Wofsy
I had to cancel all meetings for the last week to get out of
town. I did have a chance to meet with Chris Demaske from the jschool mid
last week and she is willing to work on whatever level to get the her class
and possibly more profs from the jschool working on an exibit for "Bias
Crimes Awareness Week", which is going to be the second or third week of
winter term. I got a local internet company "245" to donate any web
page or glossy poster type things we may need for bias crimes educational
purposes, so that will be done for fall/winter terms. Some of my
law school people are getting back into town this week, so i will see them
later on probably friday or monday. Otherwise, I would like more
info on
the press release type stuff, maybe we can talk about it tomorrow.
Kathleen Workman
Nothing Reported