Commission on Diversity and Inclusion

Commission on Diversity and Inclusion Committee Meeting Minutes 4/25/2017

Attendees: Harold Blackman, Gonzalo Bruce, Will Hughes, Donna Llewellyn, Scott Lowe, Arturo Rodriguez, Susan Shadle, Angela Taylor, Katie Thomas, Gayla Thomas-Dabney, Tammi Vacha-Haas, Angeli Weller, Sherepta Mcleod, Francisco Salinas, Leslie Webb, Sienna George and Tomas Baiza

AGENDA ITEMS Updates: Communication and Actions Working Group Reporting Other

Draft Reports are due today (4/25) from the working groups if at all possible.

Donna proposed a timeline – she and Gayla still need to review it – the agreed upon timeline will be sent out tomorrow (4/26).

We will circle back with Working group #7 to determine what insights about infrastructure would meet our needs the best. (Note that working group #7 has recommendations ready, but wanted to review recommendations from other working groups to determine if the data needed to be incorporated into the infrastructure tasks as well.)

Donna/Gayla will compile the reports and look for any overlapping that may be present They will propose what other data is needed and what gaps are exposed.

Once the report is put together it will be reviewed by the Commission.

While we announced that each working group will be presenting their information to President Kustra with a maximum of 3 slides, Gayla was subsequently told by President Kustra that the request was for us to provide only written recommendations at this time. We will let the teams know if an in-person presentation is requested at a later data.

Presentations should be given to President Kustra in late spring/early summer and this will give him the summer to think about the presentations and recommendations.

There will be a follow up in the fall 2017 to have the focus groups and whatever else might be needed.

Donna will be out of the office from 5/2/17 – 5/14/17.

All working groups gave their updates and recommendations. There was discussion around overlap that was discovered between the various groups.