Advancing a Respectful and Caring Community Learning by Doing at MIT Edmund Bertschinger Institute Community and Equity Officer February 12, 2015 iceoreport.mit.edu © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................... 7 PREFACE ......................................................................................................................................... 16 1. MIT COMMUNITY AND CULTURE ....................................................................................... 18 Faculty culture ................................................................................................................. 22 Staff culture ..................................................................................................................... 24 Postdoc culture ............................................................................................................... 25 Student culture ............................................................................................................... 26 MIT culture at large ........................................................................................................ 30 A case study ..................................................................................................................... 32 What successful DLCs suggest ..................................................................................... 33 LeaderShape .................................................................................................................... 34 2. CORE VALUES ......................................................................................................................... 35 Learning by doing .......................................................................................................... 37 Meritocracy, at its best ................................................................................................... 37 Equity and inclusion ...................................................................................................... 38 Excellence ......................................................................................................................... 38 Collaborative problem solving .................................................................................... 39 Innovation and entrepreneurship ............................................................................... 40 Diversity of thought, experience, ability, background, and perspective ............ 41 Humility ............................................................................................................................ 43 Integrity ............................................................................................................................ 44 Openness ......................................................................................................................... 44 Service ............................................................................................................................. 45 3. MISSION, VISION, AND MIT COMPACT ............................................................................. 46 ICEO mission statement ................................................................................................ 46 ICEO vision statement ................................................................................................... 47 Recommendation C1: Create an MIT Compact ......................................................... 48 4. LEARNING ............................................................................................................................... 51 Educational culture and values .................................................................................... 52 Student life and learning .............................................................................................. 53 Managing conflict and fostering equity and integrity ............................................ 54 Embracing diversity ....................................................................................................... 56 Advancing a Respectful and Caring Community: Learning by Doing at MIT iv 5. DOING ...................................................................................................................................... 59 Social intrapreneurship ................................................................................................. 60 Building community ...................................................................................................... 62 Rewarding ........................................................................................................................ 64 6. ASSESSING A RESPECTFUL AND CARING COMMUNITY ............................ 65 Survey data ...................................................................................................................... 66 Qualitative data .............................................................................................................. 74 Measures of stress .......................................................................................................... 76 Micro-aggressions .......................................................................................................... 79 7. ADVANCING CARING AND RESPECT .............................................................. 79 Recommendation C2: Launch an education campaign, employing bystander videos and leadership workshops ........................................................... 80 Recommendation C3: Review and update policies and complaint- handling procedures ...................................................................................................... 83 Recommendation C4: Organize an annual Community and Equity Challenge competition .................................................................................................. 85 Recommendation C5: Implement a paid “Time for Learning and Doing” during work hours program ......................................................................................... 86 Recommendation C6: Establish a Mentoring Resource Center ............................. 89 A more inclusive and welcoming community ........................................................... 91 8. ASSESSING A DIVERSE AND EQUITABLE COMMUNITY ................................................ 95 Demographic measures ................................................................................................ 95 Recommendation E1: Increase the URM percentage of non-faculty academics ......................................................................................................................... 99 Recommendation E2: Collect applicant-pool data for all academic and research hires ........................................................................................................ 103 Salary equity .................................................................................................................. 104 Recommendation E3: Review salary equity for postdocs and all employee categories .................................................................................................... 104 9. ACHIEVING THE BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY ..................................................................... 105 Recommendation E4: Implement recommendations of existing faculty equity reports .................................................................................................. 106 Recommendation E5: Educate all community members about unconscious bias .......................................................................................................... 107 Recommendation E6: Consider appointing a faculty recruitment concierge ................................................................................................. 110 Advancing a Respectful and Caring Community: Learning by Doing at MIT v Recommendation E7: Connect the STEM pipeline at MIT .................................... 110 Recommendation E8: Enhance the MIT MLK programs ........................................ 113 10. PEERING OUTWARD AND BEYOND ................................................................................. 114 Recommendation S1: Create and use a Community and Equity Dashboard ......................................................................................................... 115 Recommendation S2: Join the Leading for Change Higher Education Diversity Consortium ................................................................................ 115 Recommendation S3: Appoint equity committees ................................................ 116 Priorities and implementation ................................................................................... 117 Organizational change ................................................................................................ 119 Culture, the endless frontier ....................................................................................... 120 APPENDIX 1: FORMATION OF THE INSTITUTE COMMUNITY AND EQUITY OFFICE ............................................................................................................. 123 Charge from Provost Chris Kaiser .............................................................................. 123 Background to the establishment of the Institute Community and