Provide Professional Development & Leadership Development for Racial & Social Justice
IEAT 1 is continuously inventorying accomplishments and identifying opportunities
to do better toward the goal of achieving racial and social justice across all divisions
in the areas of professional development, leadership development, and mentoring for
faculty, staff, administrators, and students. The Inclusive Excellence Action Plan
(IEAP) was originally created by a team of staff, faculty, and students from across the University, with IEAT 1 calling for
specific and ongoing work toward consolidating campus resources in these areas, ensuring
that all campus leaders are well versed in implicit bias education, and furthering
our HSI mission.
The original IEAT 1.1 initiative was to create an Equity Micro-Course, but with insufficient
submissions, it was decided instead to promote the partnership with the Racial Equity
Leadership Alliance (RELA). This alliance, created by the USC Race and Equity Center, serves as a tool to achieve our goals towards advancing racial and social justice
on our campus.
CSUCI joined RELA in Spring 2023, giving members of the campus community access to:
Three race and ethnicity climate surveys (students, staff, faculty);
Monthly eConvenings featuring noted speakers each month, to which all members of each
participating CSU campus community are invited — students, faculty, and staff; and
Access to a trove of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) professional
development materials located online at EquityConnect, which are available to all CSUCI community members.
The original initiative, Equity Micro-Course, status reports can be found below:
Through the IEAT/IEAP process, we are working to create a culture of DEIA praxis --
that is, the ongoing cycle of reflection and action -- with IEATs serving as the reflection
arm and IEAPs serving as the action arm of this work. Toward that end, status reports
are submitted by IEAP Initiative Leads and read by members of Inclusive Excellence
Action Teams (IEATs) and by the President's Advisory Council on Inclusive Excellence
(PACIE) who will support the IEAP Initiative Leads by responding to formative assessment
questions posed in their status report.
Primary contacts: Bill DeGraffenreid & Angela Portillo
OVERVIEW AND PURPOSE: The goal is to have a calendar that can be sorted by type of
event so that the campus community will know about learning opportunities across divisions.
To be effective this calendar has to be easily available and easy for individual units
to contribute to. This is technically possible using Trumba but becomes difficult
to administer without resources and coordination. Faculty Development and TLi currently
manage a calendar for DAA that is effective but does not cross divisions. The main
resource need here is a lead who can make decisions and manage the effort and setup
processes. There will also be licensing costs for the calendar service.
IEAT 1.4, Hire a Chief Data Officer, was not selected for funding. It is noted, however,
as the single most popular recommendation, having been recommended by 4 of the 6 IEATs.
IEAT 6.5, the MPP Dismantling Racism initiative, is also a professional development
opportunity for administrators.
