August 13, 2018
Present: Nao Hagiwara, Beth Heller, Amanda Silvester, Rachel Boutte, Jeremy Barsell
Updates from last meeting:
- Fantasy and Stephanie accepted Nomination for Co-Chairs (Congratulations!).
- Discussed need for election, decided against due to only one person nominated for both positions
Meeting items:
- Speaker Series
- Reach out to Jennifer Elswick for recording and uploading presentations from Speaker Series to the website.
- Discussion about providing rewards or recognition to faculty members who attend all or miss only one of the presentations.
- Find additional avenues for invitations to presentations in the series
- Facebook invites
- Evites
- Program director send invitation or reminder to members of their program directly rather than from Listserv
- Student Survey
- Need 2 faculty and 2 students to volunteer to analyze qualitative data from results of student survey before September 10th meeting.
- Jeremy Barsell has volunteered to assist
- Diversity Committee needs at least two action items that come from the results of this survey
- Need 2 faculty and 2 students to volunteer to analyze qualitative data from results of student survey before September 10th meeting.
- Potential new Communications subcommittee
- Draft sensitive event reaction emails proactively (i.e. Response to Unite the Right 2 event held in Washington, DC on 8/12/18)
- Create and maintain bi-monthly newsletter that disseminate Diversity Committee events, meeting minutes, spotlight local events or talks, etc
- Upcoming and Proposed Engagement Activities
- Diversity & Inclusion in Psychology Week
- Engage program directors to work within each program to build communication and transparency
- Compare strategies and successes at the end of the semester
- Inter-program socials
- Build communication and inclusion between programs by sponsoring low/no-cost socials between 2-3 programs. By end of year each program should have an event with everyone
- Rachel suggested fielding interested volunteer student liaisons in each program to help facilitate these events and dialogues. They would not attend committee meetings. Could contribute to proposed newsletter.
- APA “I’m Psyched” Tour
- Multimedia initiative that explores the history and contemporary contributions of women of color in psychology as they engage in psychological science, practice and social justice.
- $650 minimum to purchase materials and list of potential speakers
- Earliest we can schedule is for mid-May, which will not be best. Next best option is September 2019.
- Need to discuss viability of purchasing with current budget constraints
Action items for next meeting 9/10/2018:
- Reach out to MSG to request student survey data
- Have 2 faculty and at least 1 more student volunteer to analyze data from Student Survey
- Speaker Series Subcommittee will report back with fall and spring schedule
- Discuss Student survey results and identify 2 action items for the semester and create subcommittees out of those action items
- Draft announcement to students about new student representatives and introduction of committee members—remind about Feedback Form
- Need volunteer for dedicated taker of meeting Minutes