Indiana State University
Diversity Task Force
Diversity/Inclusion Climate Study
Monthly Report
March 1, 2015-March 31, 2015
Prepared by Diversity/Inclusion Consultant
Dr. Gerda Govine
Diversity Consultant Services provided March 1-31, 2015
On-campus visit March 1, 2015-March 7, 2015
1. Interviewed 20 individuals; facilitated two student focus groups, with seven students; facilitated one
faculty focus group with three members and attended two student meetings on campus with 23
students.
1st Week
March 2, 2015 – (a) four interviews: one administrator, two faculty; one staff member and (b) one
Student Advisory Council dinner meeting.
March 3, 2015 – (a) three interviews: three community representatives; and (b) Hispanic Student
Association meeting.
March 4, 2015 – (a) six interviews: one administrator, two staff, one student and two community
representatives and (b) Newcomers group fashion show.
March 5, 2015 – (a) two community breakfast conversations; (2) two interviews: two community
representatives; (3) one student focus group and (4) one faculty focus group.
March 6, 2015 – (a) Diversity Task Force Meeting; (b) five interviews: one faculty and four students;
and (c) one student focus group.
2. Interviewed community representatives, for example Dennis Tanoos, Superintendent, Vigo County
School Corporation; Vigo County Superior Court Judge Lucky Reddy, Vigo County Prosecutor Terry
Modesitt, Chief of Police John Plasse, Terre Haute Police Department; and diverse administrators,
faculty, staff and student populations.
2nd & 3rd Week
March 10-11, 2015 & March 12-17, 2015 – Best Practices site visit to San Diego State University March
10-11, 2015. Met with Dr. Aaron Bruce, Chief Diversity Officer and Yousef Abraham, Assistant
Program Coordinator, Center for Intercultural Relations. SDSU in a Hispanic Serving Institution. Focus
on assessing and converting quantitative data into pie charts and bar graphs and organizing
and designing qualitative data structure.
3rd Week
March 18-23 Focus on assessing and converting quantitative data into pie charts and bar graphs and
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organizing and designing qualitative data structure.
4th Week
March 25, 2015 - Site visit to meet with Dr. Sue Varela, Associate Vice President, Human Resource
Management and Mariel S. Mulet, Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, California State University
Los Angeles is confirmed for Friday, April 3, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Cal State is a Hispanic Serving
Institution.
March 26-28, 2015 – Attended Association of American Colleges and Universities “Diversity, Learning,
and Student Success: Assessing and Advancing Inclusive Excellence,” San Diego, CA. The Program
focused on four major thematic areas of campus work and organizational change. (1) Diversity and
Inclusive Excellence as an Institutional Value System; (2) Equity and High-Quality Learning for All
Students; (3) High-Impact Practices and Digital Innovations and (4) Developing and Supporting
Educators for Inclusive Excellence, Leadership, and Change. Engaged in conversations with two
attendees during breakfast, McCartney N. Andrews, Administrative Assistant III and Allie B. Michael,
Coordinator of Learning Opportunities, Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Spoke with two
presenters ; Kyle Reyes, Special Assistant to the President for Inclusion and Assistant Professor,
School of Education, Utah Valley University, and Edith Cho, Student producer, Notre Dame.
March 31, 2015 – Preparation of March 2015 monthly report and Invoice. Organizing, designing
qualitative data structure and text.
3. Drafting Diversity, Inclusion Climate Study Report of interviews, focus groups, meal
conversations, observations & interactions at events and meetings on campus and in the community.
Best practice on-site interviews by three Diversity Task Force members Dean Jack Turman, Jr.,
Washington University; Dean Lynn Maurer and General Counsel Katie Butwin, Western
Michigan University, and Consultant at San Diego State University and California State University Los
Angeles (4/3/2015). Additional sources include research materials; on-campus diversity workshop,
and information gleaned from numerous presentations and workshops at the Association of
American Colleges and Universities, Diversity, Learning, and Student Success Conference
attended by three Diversity Task Force members: Dean Lynn Maurer, Dean Brien Smith, General
Counsel Katie Butwin; Consultant and two faculty members from the Bayh College of Education. The
Final report with recommendations will be delivered by Consultant to President Bradley on April
30, 2015.
4. Reviewed/analyzed documents, for example:
Indiana State University, “A Survey of the Racial Climate at Indiana State University,” Summary
Report, May 1995.
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Indiana State University, “A Survey of the National Origin Climate at Indiana State University,”
Summary Report, May 1995.
DePaolo, Concetta A., “An Exploration of the Effects of Faculty Satisfaction on Student Success,”
Executive Summary, July 15, 2014.
Eversole, Barbara & Sihan Lekchiri), Indiana State University Exit interview Data Analysis, (undated)
Indiana State University, President’s Council on Diversity, 6th Annual Report 2013-14.
Indiana State University, Faculty Exit Report Survey, August 20, 2014.
Indiana State University, Center for Student Success booklet, undated.
Indiana State University, “Diversity At a Glance” brochure, Office of Diversity 2015.
Indiana State University, African-American faculty and staff meeting summary, December 5, 2014.
Indiana State University, COACHE (Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education), Faculty
Job Satisfaction Survey Provost’s Report, 2014.
Indiana State University, Faculty & Staff Hiring Manual, (undated).
Association of American Colleges and Universities “Diversity & Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared
Futures,” Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 2015, Washington, D.C.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, March 12, 2015, Volume 32, No. 3, Cox, Matthews & Associates,
Inc., Fairfax, Va.
Indiana State University, “Bayh College task force focuses on broadening perspectives,” Office of
Communications and Marketing, March 17, 2015.
Dick, Gerry, “Multicultural Effort Underway at ISU,” Inside Indiana Business, Terre Haute, Indiana,
March 17, 2015.
Convergence: Diversity and Inclusion, Advertising Supplement, The Chronicle of Higher Education &
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, March 20, 2015.
Association of American Colleges and Universities, Inclusive Excellence: Systemic-Change and
Cultural Transformation Workshop presenters: Marisa Herrera, University of Washington; Jesús
Trevino and John Little, University of South Dakota, Appendix A. Transforming the University of South
Dakota into an Inclusive Excellence University for the 21st Century: A Vision Statement prepared by
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Jesús Trevino, 2015 Diversity, Learning and Student Success Conference, March 26-28, 2015 San
Diego, CA.
Cal State LA, Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Rights and Options for Victims of Sexual
Violence, Dating Violence, Domestic Violence and Stalking, 2015.
“Religious Freedom Restoration,” law, Section 1.1C34-13-9, State of Indiana Code, Chapter 9, July 1,
2015.