Diversity Council ::: Meeting Minutes ::: February 23, 2007
Members Present: Carol Archbold, Gene Berry, Ann Burnett, D.C. Coston, Kambiz Jarahmand, Wendy Troop-Gordon, Sandy Holbrook, Rhonda Kitch, Allyn Kostecki, Andrea Laverdure, Melissa Mallett, Charles Okigbo, Chuck Peterson, Craig Schnell, Holly Bastow-Shoop, Kara Stack, Gene Taylor, Karla Thoennes, John Trautman, Rita Ussatis, Jacklynn Davis-Wallette
Others Present: Vanessa Waserman
Announcements:
- Women's Week Events: Feb. 26 - Mar. 2
- Kara passed out brochures for Women's Week activities.
- Jean Kilbourne spoke last week Tuesday, approximately 500 people attended.
- T-shirts for sale for $10 in the Student Activities Office.
- 25th Anniversary of Women's Week.
- First Lori Loveland speaker Christine Gregoire, Washington governor (Ann gave people posters to put up).
- Tapestry of Diverse Talents
- Spring induction is Friday, May 4, 2007.
- Kara passed out nomination forms.
- Deadline is March 16, 2007.
- Diversity Impact Award will be given at the same time.
- Update on awards from diversity programming proposals
- $1,000 Award to Orientation and Student Success for presentation by Jean Kilbourne.
- $500 Award to Women's Studies for presentation by Christine Gregoire.
- Current balance available for funding projects is $6,700.
- Black History Month events remaining (Davis-Wallette)
- Monday, Feb. 26, 12:00 noon, Discover Botswana presentation, FLC 319.
- Monday, Feb. 26, 2:00 pm, Sisterhood Circle, Ceres 205, discussion on interracial adoption.
- Monday, Feb. 26, 5:30 pm, Soul Food Dinner at University Lutheran Center. Tickets for sal $3 per person/$5 per couple.
- 18th Annual Woodland and High Plains Pow Wow: Saturday, Mar. 24, at MSUM.
- To date, five proposals have been submitted and funded. The current balance of the fund is $7,200.00.
- Race and Criminal Justice presentations
- Tuesday, Mar. 27, 3:00 pm; and Wednesday, Apr. 25, 3:00 pm. (March topic: media/April topic: social justice.)
Demographic profile of NDSU 2006-07 (Holbrook)
- Sandy presented a PowerPoint overview of NDSU demographics.
- Overview will be posed on the Diversity Council website.
Update on community resources project (K. Peterson and V. Waserman)
- Sample designs of bookmarks were presented for the council to vote on.
- Kristina and Vanessa are working with ITS on web page development.
- The council discussed the contact list and how it would work best.
- Council discussed the importance of follow-up with people regarding the contact list.
Diversity Strategic Plan - update on accountability plan (Burnett, Holbrook, Taylor, Thoennes)
- Handout was distributed regarding plan review team proposal.
- Discussion was held:
- Chuck asked a question about training on how to complete the reviews. Who would do it and how would it be done?
- The subcommittee members indicated that co-chairs of the review teams would be trained first and then team members would be trained as well.
- Teams would review the annual report plans and give feedback to the Vice-President.
- Chuck asked about how review information may be used by Deans of Colleges. Specifically, how would Deans get feedback on what the team felt was working and what needed improvement?
- Craig Suggested that he would bring the review information to the Dean's council. He also indicated that he would duplicate the narrative and give it to each college.
- It was suggested that review teams could also go to the Dean's council and present brief summaries.
- The council discussed the importance of giving unit feedback so that changes could be made if necessary.
- Craig suggested that pages of the strategic plan format could be updated to include additional blocks on the right side for review teams to write suggestions and comments.
- It was suggested that there be some guideline for the review team to present information to the Vice-President. For example, feedback should be specific and relate directly to the Strategic Plan.
- Council members agreed that this plan should move ahead, adapting as needed to reflect the discussion.
- Chuck asked a question about training on how to complete the reviews. Who would do it and how would it be done?
Council discussed recruiting students from under-represented populations and who is responsible for it. Andreas asked specifically about recruitment strategies for Native American students from North Dakota schools. Holly asked about the possibility of more opportunities for "active recruiting" by department and faculty instead of only sending admissions people. Andrea talked about the need for visitors who were interested in recruiting to know the community, the businesses, and job opportunities available for graduates in different fields.
Diversity Impact Award - process and final forms (Schnell)
- Nomination forms will be available both online and hardcopy.
- Call for nominations will need to be publicized.
- Mid-April will be the deadline for nominations.
- Awards will be given out at Tapestry of Diverse Talents Event.
- Subgroup of the Diversity Council will make up the review team for nominations.
Time/days for spring semester 2007 meetings (all in Meinecke at 11:30 am - 1:00 pm)
- Friday, Mach 23rd
- Friday, April 20th
- Friday, May 18th
Reminders
- Please notify Linda Gill (Linda.gill@ndsu.edu or 1-8124) no later than Wednesday morning before the meeting date if you cannot attend so that she can adjust the lunch count.
- Please send diversity-related news items or information about events for the web page to Deb McDonough (Debra.Mcdonough@ndsu.edu).