Inclusive Excellence Action Theme 1 (IEAT 1)

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.

Institutionally Funded Initiatives:

Racial Equity Leadership Alliance Membership (IEAT 1.1)

Concluded

Responsible divisions: OTP with DAA and DSA

  • 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:

    1. Three race and ethnicity climate surveys (students, staff, faculty);
    2. Monthly eConvenings featuring noted speakers each month, to which all members of each participating CSU campus community are invited — students, faculty, and staff; and
    3. 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:

    Status Report May 2023 - Equity Micro-Course Spring 2023 (PDF, 133KB)

    Status Report November 2022 - Equity Micro-Course - Advancing DEIA (PDF, 198KB)

    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. 

  • All campus community members are able to access monthly e-convenings and DEIA professional development opportunities through Equity Connect.

Divisionally Funded Initiatives

Shared Professional Development Calendar (IEAT 1.2)

Not Yet Started

Responsible divisions: DAA with BFA

    • 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.
    • TBD

Notes:

  1. 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.
  2. IEAT 6.5, the MPP Dismantling Racism initiative, is also a professional development opportunity for administrators.
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