Minute Taker: Baylee Jenkins

Leadership Update: Shannon

• Departmental transparency handbook

  • Adding links to grad school

  • Including go-to people/ resources for questions (e.g., ombud for advisor-mentee challenge questions)

  • Designing for less-frequent updates

    • Having point-people for particular resources/ questions

      • Chain of command for particular issues

    • Annual/ bi-annual lookovers to make sure the handbook is up-to-date

• DEI Events

  • Including a possible link on the website to an updating document, accessible by everyone, of events that are happening

    • Possibly having a 399 student involved in doing this

    • Hannah has great resources

• Committee to meet to discuss departmental demographic survey

Subcommittee updates + action items: Krystal

• [for next academic year/ over summer] potentially forming a subcommittee concerning a virtual diversity day for interested potential applicants

  • For our undergraduate students: highlighting grad school benefits, social problems currently trying to solve - showing the relationship between addressing social injustices and attending graduate school

    • Diversifying the pipeline committee

  • Including more messaging about psychology degrees in 195

    • Messaging salience

    • Increasing engagement with current resources

  • Non-academic routes for psychology degrees (both bachelors and advanced)

    • How psychology degrees help prepare students for industry jobs

    • Potentially including as a SONA credit - students learn about these and then take survey

• Resources committee point-person: Hannah Wild

• Admissions committee: 

  • Send out to everyone who interviewed in 2022 to begin data process

    • Feelings of inclusion

  • Possibly surveying applicants about their perceptions of diversity & inclusion after receiving an offer and interviewing, etc. 

    • Potentially before offers go out

    • Emphasizing anonymity and access after decisions go out

      • Increase honest answers, reducing possible pressure to only provide positive feedback from applicants

  • Wanting to include questions about feelings of safety & willingness to enroll

    • Information to include on survey: quality control - grad panel, interview scheduling opinions

• Diversifying the pipeline: 

  • Discussing evaluating the content of DEI in the classroom

    • Survey questions to get an idea of course content, class environment based on both instructor and classmates

    • How to best disseminate survey: creating a Qualtrics and sharing via professors and ask for year and semester taken, course numbers and sections numbers to then split based on courses

      • Goal: Talk to Christia about adding questions to TCEs

        • Using smaller survey at the end of spring 2022 semester to have pilot data to present to Christia?

    • Suggestion: making questions more DEI-related and less broad 

      • Link to current questions to review

    • Sending questions out to larger committee to receive feedback before survey creation

Leadership Committee changes for 2022-2023 academic year

• Committee should rotate for balance of prioritizing action items

• Discuss further next meeting - students & faculty should think about if they’d like to be involved

  • Voting, increasing transparency

• Responsibilities: posting meeting minutes, interim meetings between bigger meetings

Selection of next reading:

Action items:

• Creating surveys (admissions, diversifying the pipeline) within the next couple of weeks