Drafts developed in EDWG’s 1.30.18 Working Meeting

Draft Operational Definitions

Equity:addressing andremoving barriers by creating opportunities for marginalized populations.

Diversity: all the ways in which people and groups of people are different and alike.

Inclusion:the active, intentional and ongoing engagement with diversity—in people, in the curriculum, in the co-curriculum, and in communities (intellectual, social, cultural, geographical) with which individuals might connect—in ways that increase one’s awareness, content knowledge, cognitive sophistication and empathic understanding of the complex ways individuals interact within (and change) systems and institutions.

Draft Metrics

Note: Groups were instructed to only choose two metrics per goal. This was challenging because the indicators were written in a very complex and broad manner.

Goal A.Improve the satisfaction of traditionally underrepresented students, especially racial/ethnic minority students, with the UW Tacoma experience.

  • Metric 1 (we can do this now)
  • 2015 winter survey
  • "Point of Service" surveys
  • Financial aid, TLC, etc.
  • Metric 2 (requires more resources/time)
  • Questions addressing issue in revived Winter survey, to be launched in Winter 2019
  • UW Climate survey

Goal B.Increase the number and percentage of traditionally underrepresented racial/ethnic minority faculty members and staff by rank or position, and achieve equity in relation to promotions, compensation and workload.

  • Metric 1 (we can do this now)
  • Report out on faculty and staff race ethnicity.
  • Accuracy--Workday can collect more frequently
  • More creative grouping
  • Staff survey
  • need to check question wording, workload questions
  • UW Seattle's website has some info about faculty/staff, practices in hiring
  • Faculty Assembly report from 2017 on Faculty demographics
  • Anything in IPEDS?
  • How do we deal with roadblocks from HR?
  • Incorporate ACEI
  • Metric 2 (requires more resources/time)
  • Analysis compensation and promotions by race/ethnicity--snapshot and with element of time
  • Climate survey

Goal C.Better systematize and regularize the reporting of data incorporating the intersectionality of students, faculty and staff identities to inform our decision making and benchmark our achievements.

  • Metric 1 (we can do this now)
  • Spell out the existing categories, for race/ethnicity, the faculty ranks, the staff ranks, binary gender
  • Do this before we present to campus; expectation setting
  • Students: The type of diversity data that already exists in UW Profiles. 5-6 identities we can report now and their intersectionalities
  • Some key federally defined definitions. Layer in some intersections as well
  • Metric 2 (requires more resources/time)
  • Output of the Equity Data Working Group
  • Standard system that is sensitive to other intersectionalities
  • How to deal with religion, sexual orientation, immigration status
  • Climate survey, every 3 years, to ask more sensitive questions

Goal D.Reduce disparities in achievement, experience and opportunity across diverse groups of faculty, staff and students.

  • Metric 1 (we can do this now)
  • Students – graduation rates (disaggregated by race/ethnicity & gender)
  • Metric 2 (requires more resources)
  • Alumni – percent employed/self-employed, in grad school & earning a living wage ((disaggregated by race/ethnicity & gender)

Goal E.Increase the percentage of faculty and staff with demonstrated expertise and experience in multicultural competency, inclusive pedagogy and culturally responsive curriculum design.

  • Metric 1 (we can do this now)
  • Percent of faculty & staff that have gone through Safe Zone training
  • Metric 2 (requires more resources)
  • Student focus groups

Goal F.Increase opportunities for students to understand and embrace the assets of our diverse communities through local and global learning and engagement experiences.

  • Metric 1 (we can do this now)
  • Track number of community service opportunities students participate in (e.g. practica, CSL programs, Office of Global Affairs programs)
  • Metric 2 (requires more resources)
  • Survey community organizations about the impact of student involvement on their work.