| Overall Rating | Bronze - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 32.74 |
| Liaison | William Hargrove |
| Submission Date | April 29, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Texas at El Paso
PA-4: Diversity and Equity Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Ryan
Holmes Assistant Vice President for Student Support Assistant Vice President for Student Support |
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Does the institution have a diversity and equity committee, office, and/or officer tasked by the administration or governing body to advise on and implement policies, programs, and trainings related to diversity and equity on campus?:
Yes
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Does the committee, office and/or officer focus on one or both of the following?:
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| Student diversity and equity | Yes |
| Employee diversity and equity | Yes |
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A brief description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer, including purview and activities:
The President's Advisory Group on Diversity at The University of Texas at El Paso seeks to foster and model a campus environment that is welcoming, accessible and inclusive to all students, faculty, staff and visitors. Our purpose is to promote diversity as a strength and an institutional value, as well as a core element of academic and professional excellence.
The Committee meets once a month to discuss diversity & inclusion issues on campus affecting or of importance to: students, faculty, staff and visitors.
The Committee has recently launched a series of focus group discussions with departments across campus to help the Committee amplify back to the President the ideas, thoughts and concerns about diversity currently happening across campus. The goals of these discussions are to help identify an understanding of what diversity means at UTEP, identify any best practices or innovative ideas currently in place across campus that help a particular department/division support its commitment to diversity and to begin gathering ideas for a Latinos in Higher Education conference or other major programming related to that topic. The committee has conducted one of these sessions, with the remaining session to be conducted throughout 2014.
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The full-time equivalent of people employed in the diversity and equity office:
0
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The website URL where information about the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer is available:
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Does the institution make cultural competence trainings and activities available to all members of the following groups?:
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| Students | Yes |
| Staff | Yes |
| Faculty | Yes |
| Administrators | Yes |
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A brief description of the cultural competence trainings and activities:
The Assistant Vice President for Student Support, is able to provide cultural competency training and did so for example, in our Leadership Development Institute. The Assistant Vice President for Student Supporthas provided trainings across the country. His trainings focus on understanding the campus demographic, reviewing institutional history and traditions, highlighting individual and collective cultural biases, beginning to understand the many facets of oppression, outlining components of a socially just environment, and further understanding how institutional culture can foster either social justice or oppression. While the campus does not actively make such trainings available and no website is specifically dedicated to cultural competence, the expertise does exist on campus and is available when requested. Another person who has experienced such a training is the Dean of College of Health Science.
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The website URL where information about the cultural competence trainings is available:
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