Chancellor’s Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion (4CI)

Thursday, January 16, 2014

S-118

3pm-4:30pm

Opening

Welcome and Introductions

ACTION ITEMS:

·  Approach Claude Steele about visiting UCSF and/or joining 4CI

·  Continue Children’s Hospital Oakland – patient issue – discussion (perhaps bring in Rena Pasick)

Agenda #1 – Unconscious Bias Initiative - Contact Dr. Salazar for a copy of his handout/slides.

·  Dr. Rene Salazar discussed a new initiative that he is working on with Drs. Elizabeth Ozer and Renee Navarro.

·  Key Items:

o  Conducted inventory of current trainings/initiatives

o  Reached out to DIVA in the SON to learn more about their work for trainees/students

o  Conducted literature search – Univ. of Wisconsin and Univ. of Arizona has most comprehensive

o  Drafted a presentation to initially focus on faculty (90 min. workshop)

o  Initial workshop to faculty went very well

·  Discussion Items/Ideas:

o  Find a way to apply these concepts to real life situations and activities, especially for staff

o  Incorporate training modules

o  Incorporate during staff orientations

o  Also target postdocs, as they are potential future faculty

Agenda #2– VC Navarro Updates

·  Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann is stepping down. Will be the CEO of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

·  Misty Loetterle is resigning from UCSF on February 7. Paul Day will serve as interim Council Manager.

·  Climate survey results due back to us in March 2014 after next Regents meeting – Chris Cullander and Alan Carpenter will have custody of the data on behalf of UCSF

·  Bert Lubin provided an update on critical patient issue at Children’s Hospital Oakland

Agenda #3 – Staff Recruitment

·  Jeff Chiu provided an update on staff recruitment at UCSF

·  Goal is getting more qualified, diverse applicants

·  Making incremental progress

·  Currently have 12 recruiters with each focusing on a different group: - LGBT, veterans, Hispanic, Native, African American

·  Attended several outreach events this year

Discussion/Ideas:

-  Have a UCSF recruitment app and sites bookmarked at the Public Library – many out of work and low income applicants use the library primarily.

-  Add a link on the HR ticket approval for places to advertise likely to attract URM applicants

-  Add Temp. Employee Program success stories feature off of HR site to encourage other applicants to consider UCSF

Agenda #4 – SOM Faculty Diversity Initiative – In draft format. Contact Dr. Fuentes Afflick for final version of slides

·  Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick presented on the new SOM Faculty Diversity Initiative

·  In response to LCME report that the SOM needs a strategic plan for increasing diversity of students and faculty.

·  Implementation process will begin in the next month

·  We can do a better job of nurturing the pipeline for faculty positions