IIDEA Progress Report 2021-2022

IIDEA PROGRESS REPORT Updated June 2022 GOAL 1: DEVELOP A SHARED DEFINITION OF IIDEA Objective

Action

A. Creating an IIDEA standing committee in the RUSSW by-laws.

1. Chaired by the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,

Dean's Office

September 2, 2020

Dr. Antoinette Farmer serves as the Chair for the IIDEA Committee.

2. Including elected and appointed members of the faculty, staff and students,

Dean's Office

October 7, 2020

At all times, there are 14 members on the IIDEA Committee.

3. Whose Chair serves as diversity champion for the larger Rutgers-New Brunswick and Universitywide diversity and inclusion efforts 1. Working with faculty to create a statement on diversity and inclusion that is codified into RUSSW by-laws and policies,

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

September 2, 2020

Dr. Antoinette Y. Farmer is the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

IIDEA Committee

October 2, 2020

The statement was completed in October 2020 and is posted on the School's website.

2. In partnership with the Office of Academic Affairs and the Curriculum and Executive Committees, develop a conceptual/theoretical framework that undergrids the School’s initiatives that further inclusion, intersectionality, diversity, equity, and advancement,

IIDEA Subcommittee: Conceptual Framework

November Liberatory 11, 2020 – Consciousness February 2022Framework by Dr. Barbara Love was adopted and voted on by faculty in February 2022.

B. Charging the IIDEA Committee with the creation and implementation of a constantly evolving diversity and inclusion action plan for the School, including items such as:

3. In partnership with multiple RU-SSW entities, leading the development and implementation oversight of a comprehensive evolving, multi-year plan that advances IIDEA within the School and its community partners,

Progress Responsibility

Timeline

Always being addressed

Notes

4. Identifying areas where inclusion, intersectionality, diversity, equity, and advancement need to be addressed and making recommendations to the Dean, administration, and faculty to address the identified areas, 5. Coordinating with search committees to deliver/support Rutgers-New Brunswick diversity-related faculty and staff hiring protocols, 6. Coordinating with all committees, program directors and administrators to support the infusion of IIDEA objectives into yearly work plans, including curriculum consideration, 7. Coordinating with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs to add IIDEA specific questions to existing student and alumni surveys,

Always being addressed

8. Developing an ongoing IIDEA survey/assessment process for faculty, staff and students, including specifying timing and methods, and mechanisms for reporting negative IIDEA-related experiences 9. Identifying other key priorities determined by the IIDEA committee.

TBD

Always being addressed

Always being addressed

In progress

IIDEA Committee

Items related to DEI have been included on the Field Progress and Implicit Curriculum Surveys.

Always being addressed

GOAL 2: CREATE MECHANISMS TO INFUSE IIDEA PRACTICES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM AND OUR COMMUNITIES Objective A. Specifically moving forward recommendations from a) the 2018-2019 Diversity & Inclusion Task Force, which focused on the student experience, and b) the subsequent faculty discussion of key priorities, including:

Action 1. Creating a standing committee

Progress

Responsibility IIDEA Committee

Timeline September 2, 2020

Notes

2. Supporting the Office of Academic Affairs and the Curriculum Committees to create and deliver skill-based training for all faculty (TT, NTT, PTL) in inclusive pedagogies, for both formal and co-curricular learning experiences. See School’s strategic plan.

3. Developing skill-based instruction for all students re: micro-aggressions, ensuring focus on field settings. See curriculum recommendations in School’s strategic plan.

4. Supporting the Field Education team to improve field-related IIDEA training for field instructors and mechanisms for identifying and responding to field based, negative IIDEA experiences,

B. Ensuring that staff policies and protocols are aligned with the committee’s recommendations to create a school climate that is supportive of all.

Goals Subcommittee

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion/ SWAGGER

In progress

As outlined in the Goals Subcommittee: Promote inclusive pedagogical practices for faculty, part-time lecturers (PTLs), and doctoral students. Foster content related to IIDEA in scholarship and in the BASW, MSW, PhD, and DSW curriculum. The School will increase the number of trainings focused on inclusive pedagogical practices for faculty, PTLs, and doctoral students by 30% over the next five years.

The School will increase the content related to IIDEA in 50% of the courses offered in each program option (i.e., BASW, MSW, PhD, and DSW) over the next five years.

Fall 2021

Skills-based training for students was held on October 19, 2021

Always being addressed

5. Conducting a full review of the SIRS course evaluation process and bring recommendations for designing additional questions for student evaluations, and practice language for syllabi related to student and instructor bias.

TBD

1. Convening a Staff Advisory Council to bring recommendations to the Dean and Associate Dean for Administration and Finance, whose chair serves on the Dean's Advisory Committee

October 2020

2. Making resources available to support training and activities that contribute to IIDEA practices in the workplace.

Always being addressed / In progress

GOAL 3: ENSURE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF FACULTY AND STAFF THAT ADVANCE IIDEA GOALS Objective A. Building and enacting a robust fulltime faculty hiring model to meet IIDEA goals, including:

B. Ensuring that our Part-time Lecturer (PTL) faculty mirror the diversity of our student body.

C. Ensuring that our staff hiring and promotion practices correspond to our IIDEA goals.

Action 1. Continuing to help build larger university mechanisms to support IIDEA hiring.

Progress

Responsibility

Timeline Always being addressed

2. Strengthening our internal IIDEA hiring mechanisms,

Always being addressed

3. Working strategically toward the goal of a faculty composition that matches our student composition, and that of our state.

1. Strengthening our hiring processes to ensure strong IIDEA practices,

Always being addressed

2. Developing a system to monitor and report progress in these practices.

TBD

1. Strengthening our HR processes to advance IIDEA hiring with an eye to, ensuring that our staff composition correspond to the demographics of our state, 2. Monitoring and reporting progress in our IIDEA hiring and promotion outcomes.

Always being addressed

Always being addressed

Always being addressed

Notes