Communication

Domain 2: Communication

Goal 2a: SoE community members will engage in diverse, inclusive, and equitable conversations that make visible our commitments to DEI.

Goal 2b: All forms of communication within the SoE will explicitly demonstrate and reflect our strong commitment to DEI.

Strategic Actions/Initiatives

  • Maintain a set of statements related to DEI, which faculty and school leaders can draw upon for different purposes.
  • Conduct an annual audit of existing marketing materials to determine the extent to which the included implicit and explicit messages align with and/or preclude current and emergent DEI goals.
  • Organize and facilitate TeachEducateAct (TEA) Talks to create ongoing opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage in courageous and risktaking conversations about DEI.
  • Identify, develop, and maintain opportunities to communicatee with students about DEI, and in particular the challenges they’ll face in their careers (e.g., unconscious bias, the “hidden curriculum” etc.), and opportunities to help change the community.

Best Practices

  • Consistently communicate a commitment to DEI by acknowledging and responding to world and local events that specifically impact and/or target people from hyperraced communities and those from historically underrepresented groups.
  • SoE community members engage often in conversations that challenge their privileges.
  • Broadly disseminate SoE faculty research, teaching, and service that relates to DEI.
  • Visually communicate the SoE’s commitment to representing diverse perspectives, histories, and identities by, for example, posting signage throughout the building that reflect this commitment.
  • Online communications, including social media (e.g., Twitter), reflect the SoE’s commitment to representing diverse perspectives, histories, and identities.
  • Assure that the SoE website foregrounds our commitment to DEI.
  • Use the digital screens to promote DEI and broaden representation.
  • Widely advertise events related to DEI.
  • Maintain a common calendar to coordinate and promote DEI related events.

Planned Actions and Metrics

Strategic Action/InitiativeMetricResponsible Unit(s)Timeframe
Maintain a set of statements related to DEI, which faculty and school leaders can draw upon for different purposes. Ensure these are easily found on the website.Statements developed and reviewed and approved by the Policy Council.Lead: Committee on Diversity

Support: ODEI, Agenda Committee
Ongoing
Conduct an annual audit of existing marketing and online materials (e.g., website, etc.) to determine the extent to which the included implicit and explicit messages align with and/or preclude current and emergent DEI goalsAudit complete and report generated with recommendations for changes to existing marketing materials.Lead: Marketing & Communications

Support: ODEI
Ongoing
Organize and facilitate TeachEducateAct (TEA) Talks to create ongoing opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage in courageous and risk-taking conversations about DEI. Revisit / revise the surveys, and the marketing given the post-COVID realities.Number of TEA Talks as reported annually.

Brief targeted participant surveys.
Lead: Committee on Diversity

Support: ODEI
Ongoing
Identify opportunities for School leadership to respond to key public events.Events noted and communicated about.Lead: ODEI

Support: School Leadership (Dean, EAD).
Ongoing
Disseminate faculty research related to DEI.Number of articles advertised / shared.Lead: R&D

Support: Marketing, Department Chairs; Committee on Diversity
Start by Fall 2023, then ongoing
Identify, develop, and maintain opportunities to communicate with students about DEI, and in particular the challenges they’ll face in their careers.Materials and learning opportunities.Lead: Graduate Studies

Support: ODEI, Committee on Diversity
Ongoing
Review how notions of “excellence” are developed and communicated throughout the school to make sure they are representative of diverse visions for excellence.Policies, materials, and learning opportunities.Lead: Diversity Committee

Support: PC and appropriate committees
Ongoing
Identify, develop, and maintain opportunities to communicatee with all students about how to be more inclusive of their historically excluded peers and community members.Materials and learning opportunities.Lead: Graduate Studies

Support: ODEI, Committee on Diversity
Ongoing

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