Unit
- Provost
IE Action Plan Section
- GOAL 5: Assessment
Goal
- DOFA will consistently assess its goals in meaningful ways to ensure progress in meeting its diversity and inclusive excellence goals. The assessment procedures utilized by the unit will include both qualitative and quantitative measures. These measures will be used to collect data and assess short-term and long-term goals related to the unit’s inclusive excellence policies, initiatives and practices, and their outcome. Implementation Strategies: 1. DOFA will develop an assessment plan and review timelines for its units’ programs and its Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Action Plan to assess the effectiveness of its implementation strategies and progression towards meeting its objectives and its efficacy in doing so. 2. All DOFA units will work with OIRA to identify and track over time participant demographics and participation rates in their units’ services, programs, and initiatives. 3. All DOFA units will develop assessment procedures to explore any discovered gaps in participation and utilization of faculty development services, and proactively seek to understand any obstacles or barriers for faculty from underrepresented groups. For example, CELO will explore barriers to community-engaged teaching that may be specific to faculty with particular social identities. 4. All DOFA units will audit their publicity and faculty awards criteria, review processes and outcomes for inclusiveness where applicable. 5. All DOFA units will periodically administer faculty surveys to assess their changing needs. For example, CTL and WID will survey the impact of their programs, as will the VPFA Comprehensive Faculty Mentoring Program. 6. All DOFA staff will periodically assess their emerging professional development in terms of DEI competencies and will report progress in their annual performance review. Sample questions to be addressed in annual performance review include—what are your growing edges? and what are your goals for the next year that are aligned with the objectives of DOFA’s Inclusive Excellence Action Plan? DOFA Inclusive Excellence Action Plan: Review Schedule The DOFA Inclusive Excellence Action Plan will be formally reviewed twice a year: 1. A comprehensive review of implementation strategies and progress towards accomplishing them will occur every year during DOFA’s annual fall retreat (see appendix A). a. Each DOFA unit (VPFA's office, CELO, CTL, & WID) will report on their progress in implementing the Action Plan. b. Each unit’s report presentation will include a detailed handout which will include programs offered, collaborative efforts, new initiatives, unit wide professional development activities and preliminary outcomes of those efforts. c. Each report will also include samples of assessment instruments developed to be utilized to evaluate the forthcoming year’s IEAP activities and preliminary reports on assessment activities conducted since the implementation of the 2023 IEAP. 2. A review of the plan’s assessment data will occur every spring during the DOFA’s annual spring meeting (see Appendix A): a. Each DOFA unit (VPFA's office, CELO, CTL, & WID) will present data gathered from activities initiated as part of the implementation strategies of our IEAP. b. Each presentation will include quantitative and qualitative data (where applicable), an analysis of the data, and a presentation of implications for the unit’s IEAP implementation strategies for the next academic year. c. In years when the University conducts the Climate Survey, DOFA will review sections applicable to DOFA units and the faculty it serves, and consider implications for its programming and assessment procedures. d. DOFA will use its DICE results as a baseline for reviewing the Division’s diversity, equity, and inclusion activities and outcomes in its own self-assessment. Finally, an ongoing document of recommendations for future iterations of the plan will be maintained. In case a significant omission is identified in the plan, an addendum to the current plan will be developed and implemented during the current cycle of implementation.
Program Contact
Department/Units
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CELO
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Ctr for Teaching & Learning
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VP Faculty Affairs
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