Diversity Task Force

SPAC liaisons: Michelle Egan, Charlie Peltier

Responsibilities:

1. Area I: Educate women to make a difference in a complex world:

Initiative 1: Examine and Renew the current state of General Education

Action:

1.3: Infuse diversity throughout the curriculum

2. Area III: Recruit, retain, and graduate a diverse student body that ensures the College's leadership in women's education.

Initiative 3: Develop a student body with a wide variety of backgrounds, interests, capabilities, and life experiences

Action:

3.1 Increase enrollment of historically underrepresented students, including international students.

3. Area IV: Develop and focus resources to advance the mission of Saint Mary's College.

Initiative 2: Develop a comprehensive plan to achieve adequate number and distribution of staff for all departments of the College

Actions:

2.2 Increase the number of faculty and staff of diverse backgrounds

Action details The matrices
for "Educate women",
for "Recruit retain, and graduate" and
for "Develop and focus resources"

Timelines
for "Educate women" action 1.3
for "Recruit, retain" action 3.1
for "Develop and focus" action 2.2

Most recent progress report

It is anticipated that this task force will need to create subgroups to address the various diversity issues, rather than attempting to deal with all the issues as a single group, but will coordinate the final recommendations to the appropriate bodies.

Task Force Members (listed by subcommittees):

Marc Belanger
Chair		 Assistant Professor, Political Science belanger@saintmarys.edu

Student Recruitment and Retention Subcommittee

Terri Johnson
Chair

Director of Multicultural Affairs trjohnson@saintmarys.edu
Elaine Meyer-Lee Coordinator, Director for International and Intercultural Learning, CWIL meyerlee@saintmarys.edu
Mid DePauw Director, Counseling and Career Development mdepauw@saintmarys.edu
Michelle Russell Director, Residence Life mrussell@saintmarys.edu
Astrid Henry Coordinator, Women's Studies
Assistant Professor, English		 ahenry@saintmarys.edu
Nila Ahmad Student Representative ahma7438@saintmarys.edu
Annmarie Marquez Student Representative marq1743@saintmarys.edu

Curriculum Subcommittee

Catherine Pittman Chair

 Associate Professor, Psychology cpittman@saintmarys.edu
Dale Banks Chair and Associate Professor, Education dbanks@saintmarys.edu
Fran Kominkiewicz Assistant Professor, Social Work and Anthropology kominkie@saintmarys.edu
Emily Welsh Student Representative wels8901@saintmarys.edu
Mary Watroba Student Representative watr0691@saintmarys.edu

Faculty/ Staff Hiring and Retention Subcommittee

Debby Kelly, Chair Director, Human Resources dkwalsh@saintmarys.edu
Sr. Linda Kors Director SURV and Resource Center lindak@saintmarys.edu
Insook Chung Assistant Professor, Education ichung@saintmarys.edu
Mana Derakhshani Associate Professor, Modern Languages mana@saintmarys.edu
Marc Belanger Assistant Professor, Political Science
Coordinator, Intercultural Studies		 belanger@saintmarys.edu

 

The guidelines for constitution of the task force:

Core members:

Director of Human Resources
Director of Multicultural Affairs
Director of the Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership
Chair of the Intercultural Studies Committee
President of the Student Diversity Board

Guidelines:

The task force should include a representative from:

The Curriculum Committee (either faculty or administration)
The Enrollment Management Advisory Committee
The Division of Student Affairs

The task force and all the subgroups must contain representation from all three of our major constituencies - students, faculty, and administration/staff

The Executive Committee of the Faculty Assembly should be consulted regarding selection of faculty members (who are not designated representatives from specific committees).

Subgroups addressing diversity issues pertinent to the curriculum

Must include the representative from the Curriculum Committee

Must include representation from all three of our major constituencies, but must contain a majority representation of faculty.

Subgroups addressing the diversity of the student body

Must include the representatives from EMAC, the Student Diversity Board, and the Division of Student Affairs

Subgroups addressing the diversity of our faculty, staff, and administration

Must include the Director of Human Resources
Must include equal representation of faculty and of staff/administration
 

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