• Focusing on practicing Discourse 2 • Exercise of examining hot topic o Translate into Program Reviews • Retreat to inform Equity Plan o Why needed: to transform institution and enact systemic change o Build sense of safety and trust o Ways to communicate with each other o Council still needing more work on how to proceed o Fear: jump to all campus before we figure it out • Where to start with the whole campus? • Teamwork? Trust-­‐building? Lens: experiencing feelings • Promoting equity • Information: how much been communicated? Below the green line “information” [Type the company name] Student Equity Retreat – All Staff Development Ideas/Hopes/Fears/Outcomes [Type the company name] 2 • Presenting what we have been doing. Student equity plans to date • Fear: what got done being asked after • Victor: start with listening and sense-­‐making • Train team of trainers? • Open dialogue? • Need to meet as a team again this summer • Look at College Day – what people would walk away with o Moment of what students face § Student Panel: foster youth, students of color, student with disability – our present o Goal: want people to walk away feeling empowered o Council to feel empowered to be facilitators in smaller group dialogues o Incentives? § To mitigate preaching to choir o Hope: people to feel empowered to help with student equity outcomes o Fear: usual suspects on College Day too o Hope: make more concerted efforts to continue/follow-­‐up § Division meetings presentations from Council Rep.’s on activities o Need to start with choice; can’t force people to engage in equity dialogue o Make things happen in our own structures o Get more clarity on moves we want to make in equity plan o Concern: one time thing, drop in the bucket o Going with the theme of “Changing the Discourse” over the course of the year o Gather group to make teams o Bottom and middle of the pyramid o Person to person dialogue also promoted o Work is emergent o Dealing with ambiguity comes with the territory o Need to reach out to the whole campus o Adult learning: participation in learning is invited [Type the company name] 3 [Type the company name] o 4-­‐5 professional development days available in AY 15-­‐16 o Invitation to areas to hold their own retreats o Support for equity projects/leads needed o Suggest class-­‐room based action research o Newsletter to keep information flowing o Support for equity-­‐related conferences o Balance of institution-­‐driven and individual choice to participate o Student Equity Plan • In agreement that the plan addresses systemic oppression? As criteria for proposals/initiatives • Adopting this lens to do this work? • Constantly revising projects/proposals; being flexible and open to change • Language: being more intentional in serving target populations. • Sub-­‐committee to work over the summer 4 • Also, should be innovative; not too rigid • Try to reach out to more students; are strategies scalable? • Process: didn’t do – knew what gaps were, but didn’t really go over each one on how strategies will affect the gaps and why • Framework could help • Remote engagement/updates over summer to whole committee • Design Team (vs. “sub-­‐committee) • How do we imagine it would be communicated? • [Type the company name] 5