Chancellor's Council on Inclusion

Chancellor’s Council on Inclusion
February 2, 2006
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

MEETING MINUTES
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Regents Room – Chapman Hall 2nd Floor
Facilitator: Joan Prince

I. Welcome and Council logistics - Dr. Prince

• The Council web link is on the Provost site. Don’t forget to check this periodically for the posting of agenda, minutes, and articles/events of interest related to the Council’s mission.
• The minutes of the previous meeting (December 1, 2005) were accepted by consensus.
  

1. Campus Strategic planning

• This will begin this summer. Discussions will take place shortly on the format and charge.
• Plan will be BOLD and will guide us into the future
• Our major focus areas of access and research will be infiltrated and guiding assumptions in the plan creation.
• He is asking that this Council think about what our university will look five years, ten years, and beyond as this is crucial in crafting the plan.

2. UWM Campaign

• The campaign has been launched.

3. Response to Council’s recommendations

• He accepts the recommendations of the Council (creation of an Ombuds initiative and support of the recommendations from the Task Force on Race and Ethnicity report)
• An important focus will be on outcomes and these goals must be set
• The work of this Council will be to review and accelerate completion of the goals
• Diversity of faculty, staff and students is important. This campus must be open and accessible.
• The Ombuds initiative is critical. It is a needed point of contact outside the administrative and legal realm to enhance campus climate and promote fairness and equity.

III. Task Force on Race and Ethnicity recommendations – Next steps

Dr. Larry Martin stated that he is looking to have a campus-wide discussion on the recommendations, and next steps. He will discuss with the Provost the development of affinity groups (how we accomplish this to move forward)

IV. Provost Activities Update – Dr. Rita Cheng:

• Recommended to reconvene several of the previous taskforce groups (i.e. women’s council, etc.)
• Ombuds working group; suggested 5 people for a core document development and then a call out for additional people
• Review of Access data
• provided printed materials – Campus Accountability Report and Access to Success
• Evaluating and determining what needs to be retained.

  Discussion:

  • Black and Gold Committee should be involved in the affinity groups
  • Need a stronger student group presence
    
    
• Equity performance scorecard - Dr. Anthony Lemelle
  • Printed material provided
  • Define and set goals to foster educational excellence
  • There are three teams; Seven (7) volunteer campuses
  • We’re collecting data to help identify specific benchmarks
  • Next meeting is on March 7 & 8; all three teams will meet

V. UWM Student Association President – Russ Rueden:

• Charita Ford no longer with student association and no longer the Multicultural Advisors Director. They have received and are reviewing applications for the replacement.
• Student access (diversity council) goal is to bring student organizations together, particularly students of color,
• Hope to do this in the next two weeks
• Goals and agendas will be brought back to this council

VI. Diversity Scenarios Dialogue

• Facilitated by Dr. Tony Ciccone and Dr. Connie Schroeder
• Consistent with our charge of developing diversity dialogues across campus
• The Council will participate in diversity dialogues at each meeting - offerings to be spread throughout campus over the year
• The last hour of each Council meeting will be a facilitated discussion

VII. Wrap Up/Summary of action items

• Access to Success day is February 24, 2006
• Next Council meeting date is March 30, 2006 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM