LeBow DEI Dashboard
The dashboard below summarizes the recommendations of the DEI Action Group and their progress to date. The group is focused on five key areas:
- Create an Inclusive Culture
- Increase Recruitment & Retention of Underrepresented Students, Staff, and Faculty
- Integrate DEI into curriculum and research
- DEI Learning and Professional Development
- Transparency and Accountability
Updated November 30, 2021
Focus Area: Create an Inclusive Culture
| Recommendation | Emerging | Progressing | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create DEI mission statement | Completed | ||
| Create DEI strategic plan | Completed | ||
| Appoint a DEI practitioner | Progressing | ||
| Creation of DEI Advisory Council | Completed | ||
| Offer quarterly programming that highlights DEI | Completed | ||
| Inclusive Impact Day | Progressing | ||
| Create metrics to assess corporate partners to ensure that organizationally they value DEI | Progressing | ||
| Civic engagement/partnership with community groups | Progressing | ||
| Leverage LeBow community to provide support and expertise to local non-profit organizations | Progressing | ||
| Redesign the DEI section of the LeBow website | Completed | ||
| Create internal and external diversity marketing plans | Progressing | ||
| Create a web tag called ‘Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion’ | Completed |
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Focus Area: Increase Recruitment & Retention of Underrepresented Students, Staff, and Faculty
| Recommendation | Emerging | Progressing | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intensify outreach to Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx prospective students in Philadelphia | Progressing | ||
| Focus on admitting, matriculating, and retaining the largest percentage of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx students among our peer institutions | Progressing | ||
| Partner with corporate partners and institutional advancement/alumni to provide scholarship and stipend for Black/African American high school students to attend Camp Business. | Completed | ||
| Increase diversity representation in faculty and staff positions | Progressing | ||
| Ensure diversity within selection committees | Progressing | ||
| Operationalize and scale BRIDGE Program | Progressing | ||
| Continuously assess and evaluate underrepresented minority student experience | Progressing | ||
| Create an onboarding program | Progressing | ||
| Continuously survey staff and faculty to understand gaps in DEI | Progressing |
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Focus Area: Integrate DEI into curriculum and research
| Recommendation | Emerging | Progressing | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Encourage faculty to incorporate DEI related assignments into coursework | Progressing | ||
| Work with curriculum committees to incorporate DEI into more courses | Emerging | ||
| Make DEI part of College Research and Curriculum Innovation (CRCI) Group | Completed | ||
| Intentionally include diversity in research objectives | Emerging | ||
| Add a diversity requirement to LeBow undergraduate programs | Progressing | ||
| Create a new undergraduate interdisciplinary LeBow course (Global & Cultural Competency) | Emerging | ||
| Touch on DEI in CIVC 101 or UNIV 101 courses | Progressing |
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Focus Area: DEI Learning and Professional Development
| Recommendation | Emerging | Progressing | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Develop and facilitate a training series around awareness of DEI | Progressing | ||
| Create methods to facilitate dialogue that are more flexible and genuine | Progressing | ||
| Make funds available to send faculty, PhD students, and staff to conferences to learn about DEI | |||
| Create incentives for students to engage in DEI programming | |||
| Incentivize attendance/participation in DEI faculty/staff programing | |||
| Incentivize faculty/staff engagement by adding a DEI component to annual performance evaluation | |||
| Incentivize departments through Diversity Scoreboard |
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Focus Area: Transparency and Accountability
| Recommendation | Emerging | Progressing | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create an LCOB DEI Dashboard to assess and measure progress of DEI initiatives | Progressing | ||
| Faculty report DEI related service on annual report | Progressing | ||
| Report DEI related course content or modifications in faculty annual report | Progressing | ||
| DEI component added to tenure & promotion assessment and Annual Performance Review | Progressing |