History of Advancing Faculty Diversity

Promoting Faculty Diversity at CI: Timeline of Events

List Compiled May 7, 2015; updated Sept. 27, 2016; updated Oct. 13, 2018; updated Oct. 13, 2020

DateGoals and Objectives
2018–2023                     
  • Inclusive excellence adopted as 1 of 4 strategic initiatives
  • Developing a collective understanding of equity and inclusion
  • Improving graduation rates for students from historically underserved populations
2018–2019
  • Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant Leads: Geoffrey Buhl, Catherine Burriss, Robin Mitchell, and Monica Pereira
  • Make Diversity Data Transparent to Promote Institutional Accountability
  • Operationalize and Sustain Campus-wide Hiring Practices for Diversity
  • Build a Diverse Faculty Pipeline
DateDescription
2020Academic Senate Approved Resolution # SR 19-05: Resolution Condemning the Increase in Hate Crimes Related to COVID-19 (pending approval)
Spring 2017President’s Advisory Council on Inclusive Excellence awarded $200,000 grant from CSU to advance faculty diversity at CSU Channel Islands
2017.10.19LSAMP faculty and students present at SACNAS conference, continuation of faculty recruitment activities
2017.8.24President Beck created the President’s Task Force on Inclusive Excellence
2016.10.18Guest Speaker: Dr. Gilda Ochoa, presented “Unpacking Diversity and Excellence in Our Schools,” and held mentoring session with junior faculty of color
2016.9.28Self-appointed faculty diversity hiring task force met with President Erica Beck: Presentation of Timeline of Events and CI Diversity (Updated F16)
Fall 2016Disciplinary Search Committee members required to participate in training “Successful Recruitments” and “Non-discrimination and Affirmative Action Programs.” (Required by Faculty Affairs, at request of faculty.)
2016.05.09Faculty Diversity Forum
2016.04.29“Campus Climate Lunch” (part of African-American Women in STEM Diversity & Inclusion Discussion) organized by Cynthia Wyels
2016.02.02Guest Speaker: Jaime Washington, Black Lives Matter/Living While Black Social Justice Training
2016Academic Senate Approved Resolution # SR 16-01: “Commitment to Equity, Inclusion, and Civil Discourse within our Diverse Campus Community”
2015.9.11Unconscious Bias Workshop: CFA Faculty Affairs Partnership
2015.05.08Workshop on Faculty Diversity at CI: A HUGs Conversation, Part 2
2014.11.13Creation of CI Disciplinary Search Committee Best Practices Checklist; provided to Faculty Affairs
2014.11.05Annual Advocacy Meeting with Provost Hutchinson: Creating a Culture of Faculty Diversity & Inclusion. Resulted in including a question on diversity in faculty application form (“Please describe your commitment to working with diverse populations, including how you would define ‘diversity.’”)
2014.05.08Workshop on Effective Practices for Ensuring Diversity in the Tenure Track: A CI Faculty Conversation on Reaching, Attracting and Hiring Historically Under-Represented Faculty, Part 1
2014.01.22Annual Advocacy Meeting with Provost Hutchinson: Creating a Culture of Faculty Diversity & Inclusion
2013.12.11Reach-out to President’s Commission on Human Relations, Equity and Diversity (no response)
2013.11.20Creation of a Proposal for Reviewing and Revising Faculty Hiring Process to Promote Spring 2014 Success
2013.11.18Creation of CI Diversity Demographics movie (following Alex Espinoza’s Fresno State model)
2013.10.21Reach-out to President’s Commission on Human Relations, Equity and Diversity (Memo to Commission from José Alamillo, Frank Barajas, Monica Pereira, Kaia Tollefson entitled “Building a University of the 21st Century: Achieving Tenure-track Faculty Diversity”)
2013.09.17Daryl Smith Symposium and meeting with administrators and faculty. Dr. Smith’s book Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work was distributed free to attendees
2013.05.01Webinar on Recruiting and Hiring Diverse Faculty: Academic Impressions, Dr. Myron R. Anderson from James Madison University
2013.02.12Annual Advocacy Meeting with Provost Neuman: Creating a Culture of Faculty Diversity & Inclusion
2013.01.17Collection of Division and Program Self Assessment Surveys: Achieving a Culture of Inclusion
2012.12.18Annual Advocacy Meeting with Provost Neuman: Creating a Culture of Faculty Diversity & Inclusion
2012.11.09CI Community Screening and Discussion of Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
2012.10.26Guest speaker: Dr. Ken Magdaleno on Promoting a Mentoring Culture
2012.10.26CI Community Screening and Discussion of Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty, with guest speaker, Dr. Ken Magdaleno
2012.10.25Literature Review Highlights: Diversifying Faculty
2012.10.23Report on Diversity of Applicant Pool in DSC Searches Fall 2012
2011.11Senate Resolution 11-03: To Advance the Ethnic and Racial Diversity of Faculty, Staff and Administrators
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