| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.15 |
| Liaison | Emma Blandford |
| Submission Date | Feb. 29, 2024 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
PA-5: Diversity and Equity Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.67 / 2.00 |
Emma
Blandford Portfolio Manager Office of Sustainability |
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Part 1
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Does the committee, office and/or officer focus on students, employees, or both?:
Both students and employees
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A brief description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer, including purview and activities:
Georgia Tech (GT) aspires to be an Institute that pursues excellence and embraces and leverages diversity in all of its forms. Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (IDEI) at Georgia Tech supports and advances the recruitment and retention of a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community by promoting inclusive excellence in Georgia Tech’s teaching, research, recruitment, hiring and promotion, and service endeavors. IDEI leadership serves to establish priorities, policies, and programs that support our mission as a leading technological university in the 21st century.
IDEI works towards being a national leader in modeling a culture of inclusive leadership and fostering an environment that reflects Georgia Tech’s values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. To do so, IDEI designs all student and employee orientation and onboarding processes to clearly define GT’s DEI values, principles, and behavioral expectations. IDEI also utilizes an Institute-wide DEI structure that assures accountability for DEI commitments and priorities. They monitor employee performance assessments and have structured them to promote DEI accountability and recognition.
IDEI also works with campus leaders to ensure that our core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded in equal opportunity and non-discrimination practices. A strong partnership with the Offices of Human Resources, Legal Affairs, and the Division of Student Affairs ensures our compliance with all federal and state laws regarding Equal Opportunity, Title IX, and The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
IDEI works with the executive leadership team of the Institute to ensure that we recruit, develop, retain, and engage a diverse cadre of students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and talents who will contribute to our mission and vision.
IDEI council operates on four key objects:
● Provide a regular forum for Georgia Tech stakeholders representing all divisions of the Institute to identify and consider innovative, forward-looking, proactive approaches, tactics, and methods to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and outcomes at Georgia Tech
● Create a setting in which Institute leadership engages and mobilizes around diversity, equity, and inclusion-related issues and opportunities
● Develop data-informed recommendations to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion and allow the Institute to lead by example as a model institution advancing inclusive innovation
● Annually constitute action work groups to address three to five prioritized DEI goals in coordination with the strategic plan’s implementation strategy or emergent issues where the Institute should uniformly act
Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion oversees the participating professors of Georgia Tech's ADVANCE Program, who work to enhance gender diversity in the faculty. Their aim is to support the community and advancement of women faculty and minorities in academia. ADVANCE regularly holds Implicit Bias Workshops for faculty members. Institute Diversity is also addressing issues of student diversity and inclusion. Currently, two units, OMED: Education Services and Office of Hispanic Initiatives, address academic transitions and success, retention, and graduation for women and historically underserved and underrepresented populations. IDEI also houses the Institute's ADA Compliance and Title IX units.
https://diversity.gatech.edu
IDEI works towards being a national leader in modeling a culture of inclusive leadership and fostering an environment that reflects Georgia Tech’s values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. To do so, IDEI designs all student and employee orientation and onboarding processes to clearly define GT’s DEI values, principles, and behavioral expectations. IDEI also utilizes an Institute-wide DEI structure that assures accountability for DEI commitments and priorities. They monitor employee performance assessments and have structured them to promote DEI accountability and recognition.
IDEI also works with campus leaders to ensure that our core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded in equal opportunity and non-discrimination practices. A strong partnership with the Offices of Human Resources, Legal Affairs, and the Division of Student Affairs ensures our compliance with all federal and state laws regarding Equal Opportunity, Title IX, and The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
IDEI works with the executive leadership team of the Institute to ensure that we recruit, develop, retain, and engage a diverse cadre of students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and talents who will contribute to our mission and vision.
IDEI council operates on four key objects:
● Provide a regular forum for Georgia Tech stakeholders representing all divisions of the Institute to identify and consider innovative, forward-looking, proactive approaches, tactics, and methods to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and outcomes at Georgia Tech
● Create a setting in which Institute leadership engages and mobilizes around diversity, equity, and inclusion-related issues and opportunities
● Develop data-informed recommendations to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion and allow the Institute to lead by example as a model institution advancing inclusive innovation
● Annually constitute action work groups to address three to five prioritized DEI goals in coordination with the strategic plan’s implementation strategy or emergent issues where the Institute should uniformly act
Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion oversees the participating professors of Georgia Tech's ADVANCE Program, who work to enhance gender diversity in the faculty. Their aim is to support the community and advancement of women faculty and minorities in academia. ADVANCE regularly holds Implicit Bias Workshops for faculty members. Institute Diversity is also addressing issues of student diversity and inclusion. Currently, two units, OMED: Education Services and Office of Hispanic Initiatives, address academic transitions and success, retention, and graduation for women and historically underserved and underrepresented populations. IDEI also houses the Institute's ADA Compliance and Title IX units.
https://diversity.gatech.edu
Part 2
Most
Estimated proportion of academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Most
Estimated proportion of non-academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Most
If trainings are made available, provide:
Georgia Tech offers numerous opportunities to become more multiculturally competent. They offer a Multicultural Competence Certificate program which is available to staff and administrators. The Office of Institute Diversity also offers numerous trainings available to students on all manners of different topics including social justice, workplace diversity, and more. Trainings can include but are not limited to workshops, open discussions, and field trips. The Office of Institute Diversity also offers public events, lectures, and trainings that are available to faculty as well. Some of the trainings and activities include:
- Diversity Week
- MLK Student Celebration
- Power Over Prejudice Summit
- Diversity Through the Arts
- Social Justice Training
- Implicit Bias Trainings
- Diversity Symposium
- Leading Women@Tech
- Inclusive Leaders Academy
- Blue-Eyes, Brown-eyes: Linking Perception to Performance
- Leading with a DEI Lens
- Did I Say That? Exploring Microaggressions & Microtriggers
- Diversity & Inclusivity Month
- Equity and Compliance Trainings
- Request a Custom Training
- Diversity Week
- MLK Student Celebration
- Power Over Prejudice Summit
- Diversity Through the Arts
- Social Justice Training
- Implicit Bias Trainings
- Diversity Symposium
- Leading Women@Tech
- Inclusive Leaders Academy
- Blue-Eyes, Brown-eyes: Linking Perception to Performance
- Leading with a DEI Lens
- Did I Say That? Exploring Microaggressions & Microtriggers
- Diversity & Inclusivity Month
- Equity and Compliance Trainings
- Request a Custom Training
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