Minute Taker: Emily

Group photo (for the web)

Review of Reading/Continuing Education (Shannon: 15 minutes)

• Should all mentors have this as background information before mentorship?

• Beyond typical mentorship-- context provided before semesters to better outcomes amongst marginalized identities (e.g., 1st gen, BIPOC)

  • Possibly disclose identities to students at the beginning of the semester to emphasize scientists hold multiple identities

• Theory to Action

  • PSY Scholars exposed to research opportunities (PSY 395), but who are we missing by not making information accessible?

    • PSY Lab showcase: New faculty members may already have pre existing videos explaining their research interests/lab tasks

  • Graduate School

  • Having these conversations during Graduate School Orientation/TA Training

  • Surveying faculty to see if they need RAs, update website each semester to display if RAs are needed or not

Subcommittee Updates (Krystal: 30 minutes - 5 minutes per)

• Leadership

  • Evaluate our Efficacy

    • Operationalize DEI Committee Success

      • Thriving and Goals (as described in a word cloud)

      • Can this be done by Spring 2022? 

  • Holding our DEI Committee Accountable

    • Continue with public minutes

    • Broad dissemination of our efforts & receive feedback

      • All grad programs (clinical, DSH, neuro) send graduate student representative to department meeting and disseminate information to respective Brown Bag

    • Recommendations from the Admissions subcommittee

      • Highlight DEI relevant research on DEI website, 

      • Highlight other communities on campus (e.g., CHET, CESJ, DRC, Office of LGBTQ+ Resource, MLK Jr. Center, KY Refugee Ministries)

      • Highlight fun things to do in Lexington (from multiple perspectives!), possibly utilize Google Maps from Clinical

• Transparency

  • Psychology Departmental Handbook

• Admissions

  • Updated program website, prospective student website, and FAQ

  • Feedback given to program heads with suggestions to individually better the websites

  • Next step: standardize interview process and share with all department heads to see if it will be applicable to different tracks

  • DEI Panel during interview process

    • Clinical program has utilized this in the past but it could be applied to all areas. It might be best to have this lead by graduate students & not record to make the conversation more candid.

• Diversifying the pipeline

  • Possible panel to display what careers are available after research

• Decolonizing the syllabi

  • Curated chapters/articles for core courses that faculty could utilize

    • Missing articles for PSY216/quantitative 

  • What’s the best way to disseminate information? Should this be done on an individual basis?

    • Messaging- discuss Feb. 2022- how to best frame making these changes to larger group

• Resources/Web

  • Mini meeting: Completed a shell of the updated website for psychology DEI including tabs, allocation of different links/ websites/ topics, etc. 

  • “Prototype” of resource tool prepared

Open forum (Baylee: 10 minutes)

• Make it a mandatory for PSY 215 courses to have questions about careers in psychology.

• Pleased and grateful for significant changes!