CCDI-II
Chancellor’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion - II
Minutes
July 25, 2013
Attendees: Steve Raper, Erin Rowe (for Venkata Allada), Karen Chapman, Jerri Arnold-Cook, Shannon Fogg, Brett
Watson, Cecilia Elmore
Erin Stampp, co-chair of CCDI-II, led the meeting in the chair’s absence. Erin welcomed everyone to the
Chancellor’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion II at 2:05 pm.
Opening Week Mini-Career Fair:
Erin explained that during the Mini-Career Fair students will come to each of the tables and that CCDI-II would talk
briefly about how the committee was formed, the history, the way inclusion was defined and the charges CCDI-II
currently have. Students will receive a ticket which will be used to complete their Project X vehicle. Students
aren’t required to visit each table; they have the option to pick and choose which tables to visit.
Erin asked CCDI-II what information the committee needed to update on the display board. It was agreed upon that
Erin will work with Karen and Ginger to update the board for the Mini Career Fair.
What is CCDI-II message?
1.
The committee agreed it is a good way to advertise the on-line incident form. A suggestion was made to
have the forms available for the students to take with them.
 A suggestion was made that the on-line reporting should not be the entire focus, as it could be seen
as negative. CCDI-II wants to be sure and display the importance that the on-line reporting is to
be a good thing to continue to create diversity and inclusion in the campus community, as well as
a tool to address issues.
2.
What is good or positive about successes of CCDI-II?
 Hired a Recruitment Manager in Human Resources; Celebration of Nations will be held in
September; it was suggested the committee create a blog to highlight and update the campus
community about things happening with diversity and inclusion.
 Set up brief blurbs with eConnection about what’s coming from CCDI-II communications.
 Could CCDI-II request the Chancellor to Twitter the first or second week of opening week about
the on-line reporting?
 CCDI-II will advertise the Campus Climate Survey data research.
 CCDI-II present members discussed the need to mention what the campus is doing to be more
inclusive with campus rest rooms.
It was suggested the committee put together information regarding events that were happening during opening week.
Jerri will email the group and ask if there are things for students to do the first 2-3 weeks of opening week.
Erin passed around a sign-up sheet for the CCDI-II committee members to sign up for designated times during the
Mini-Career Fair, scheduled for Tuesday-Thursday, August 13-15.
Follow up with Chancellor Schrader on the Bertlesmeyer ground breaking ceremony signs:
Erin advised that following the meeting with Chancellor Schrader on July 9th a few of the CCDI-II members asked
the Chancellor what her standpoint was on the removing of some student groups and/or signs when the Bertlesmeyer
Hall ground breaking ceremony had to be moved inside Havener due to rain. Chancellor Schrader advised it had
nothing to do with the student groups or signs and that the communication to remove the signs came directly from
her. Chancellor Schrader asked if there were student groups that were offended and did she need to address the
students. Chancellor Schrader was willing to follow up, and was concerned about how her message was articulated
and if it was distorted. She was glad the committee brought the issue to her attention as she wanted to make sure the
signs were moved carefully. The committee members who spoke to her regarding the incident were pleased with
her response and felt the communication between the chancellor and them was good.
Sub-Committee Reports
Curricular/Academic Infusion Sub-Committee
This sub-committee looked at what was currently out in pilot programs. They looked at how gradual pilot programs
were implemented. One group met 4 times for 4 one day sessions to include into curriculum, and then an idea is
selected and then implemented according to semester. An example of eFellows on our campus was given. The subcommittee found these programs do provide the faculty a stipend to implement. There would need to be some sort
of training and core office to work out of. A suggestion was partnering with new faculty programs or CERTI (The
Center for Educational Research and Training Innovation).
Some questions and approaches this sub-committee is exploring are:
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What resources could be used for funding, which is currently scarce, and would partnering be a good idea?
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What are implications of having academic freedom in teaching? This could be an issue about telling
faculty how to teach and seen as not thrust upon them.
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How can they get away from affirmative action and try to reach out to broader faculty and student based
pools?
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A suggested approach was a model from the UMKC program; here are some things you can do that don’t
impede upon your academic freedom. Idea is to get different departments interactive and sharing as
faculty, conversation wise. What could the incentive be, that’s not monetary, such as performance review,
tenure status, etc…
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A suggested idea for the S&T campus would be to sponsor a, ”cookies in the classroom” thing, to talk to
each other without an agenda, between faculty and students. Could be something simple.
Currently the sub-committee does not have a plan for all the information being collected and need to put together a
draft to move to an action plan. Make recommendations from sub-committee.
Information and Education, Web-Presence Sub-Committee
This sub-committee researched 11 schools. Andy provided a great job of what communications is doing currently.
MyLearn came up to promote. Looking at websites for training of faculty and staff: at the 11 schools there are some
cool programs, but questions that were asked by the sub-committee were:
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How much is being used?
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How successful are those programs?
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Can it be determined as mandatory, considered professional development, and have incentives to promote
diversity and inclusion?
This sub-committee proposed Aug. 30, 2013 as the date to have recommendations drafted. Some recommendations
include:
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The sub-committee wants to be sure to have the resources to recommend.
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What are some things they can work toward that is comprehensive?
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Promote what’s there, i.e. myLearn.
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Looked at Mizzou for online resources wants to grant selected people to have access to S&T campus.
Co-Curricular Sub-Committee
The charge of this sub-committee is to examine what is going on in the co-curricular climate. Not earning credit for
co-curricular.
This sub-committee asked several questions in researching information:
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How to define the meaning of co-curricular? Is it a broad meaning and what falls under co-curricular?
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What did the campus climate survey tell them? What is experiential learning? Research sent to review.
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What is service learning? Service learning is attached to a class which is also experiential learning and vice
versa.
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How is experiential defined? Is it learning in or out of the classroom?
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Should it be distinguished between the two? You are gaining something that you would not otherwise gain,
could be a class, could be a business design, it could be both.
The sub-committee determined that experiential learning is an umbrella term and service learning is a component of
experiential learning.
Other questions asked were how the student design teams fit in or fraternity philanthropy projects.
This sub-committee researched institutions that would tie to academic curriculum. Some suggestions were to talk to
individual instructors to offer opportunities and offer a clearing house of who coordinates diversity and
equity/inclusion. Most of the research is being done in big schools and S&T needs to figure out how to do that at
S&T’s campus.
What was determined to focus on as to the Campus Climate Survey? For now, who felt harassed or discriminated
against? The groups that stood out were LGBTQ, women, staff, non-STEM, and people of color.
The plan for the next meeting is to pull out themes, best practices, specific programming, etc…then look at what
CCDI-II would think would work on the S&T campus.
Coordination and information sharing seem to be the forefront of the sub-committees.
What should sub-committees come to the CCDI-II with for the August 22, 2013 meeting? CCDI-II agreed to
advise, “Here is where we want to go and here’s how we want to pursue where we want to go.” A current struggle
with the sub-committee is getting in contact with other schools for research.
CCDI-II agreed they would like to have Shenethia advise what the anticipated diversity plan time frame is; what the
goals are for the school year, with benchmarks of December and May; what she wants CCDI-II to accomplish this
semester, for the year, the future.
Meeting was closed at 3:26 pm
Notes by: Ginger Dalton, Human Resource Assistant