Accelerating Progress Towards a More Diverse and Inclusive Harvard Chan School

April 17, 2015

Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Framework

Assessment

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Intervention

Targeted Opportunities for Change

• Increased student, staff, and faculty diversity

• Training and educational opportunities to expand awareness of the dynamics of privilege and bias and develop tools to mitigate their effects

• Increased focus on social justice and community engagement as part of public health education and the School’s broader mission

• A coordinated approach to monitor, assess, engage in dialogue and improve diversity and inclusion at the Chan School

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Student Diversity: Recruitment and Admissions

• The Dean’s Report on student applications, admissions and yield has generated discussions about how we can improve student diversity

• As the Report showed, the Office of Admissions is actively engaged in this work already with many partners around the school

• We will undertake a systematic review of practices for diversity in recruitment and admissions in schools of public health and across Harvard

• Conduct an internal review of recruitment and admissions practices to identify opportunities to test new approaches

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Student Diversity: Pipeline Initiatives

• Harvard Chan School summer program (FACETS): expanded

• Health Career Connections

• Post-baccalaureate programs:

• Collaboration with GSAS for Health Economics students

• Submitted NIH R25 proposal in January

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Faculty and Staff Diversity

• Office of Faculty Affairs

• New requirements for search committees to identify a minimum of 5 women and underrepresented minority applicants for a search

• Search committee process improvement: new guidelines from Provost’s Office supported by OFA staff to guide search committees on best practices

• Office of Human Resources

• Placements of “Year Up” participants to help develop pipeline

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Education and Training

Students

Orientation

Connected learning opportunities throughout the

year including Power and Differences

Curriculum reforms as a platform for new competencies

Staff

Interactive workshops on topics such as privilege,

identity, bias and working in diverse teams

Diversity Dialogues offered through Longwood Medical

Area collaboration with HMS, HSDM

Faculty and

researchers

Workshops for faculty development (2 pilots this

spring)

Expanded opportunities offered in partnership with

departments

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Community Engagement

• Office of Education creating a new role to build and strengthen community connections for practice education and service

• Coordination with Office of Diversity and Inclusion

• Position is funded and a draft is being circulated for input

• Anticipate hire to occur by July 1

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Promoting Research and Policy Translation to Improve Equity

• Harvard Chan School faculty, researchers, and students work on cutting edge research that addresses inequities in health and identifies solutions

• Internal funding opportunities: McLennan Grants on Race, Ethnicity, and Health• Marcia Testa (BIO) - Developing Measures for Disaster

Resiliency in Multiethnic and Linguistically Diverse Communities• Nancy Krieger (SBS) - Segregation, Violence, and Health

Inequities: New Methods for Analyzing the Joint Impact of Racial and Economic Polarization

Monitoring and Assessment

• Increase data collection on climate, experiences, and concerns

• Schoolwide climate assessment in FY2016

• Bias-related reporting mechanism

• Staff and student exit surveys: feedback on climate

• Course evaluations: testing new questions on inclusiveness

• Incorporation of aggregate climate findings in Annual Dean’s Report on Diversity and Inclusion

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Coordinated Approach to Improvement in Diversity and Inclusion

• Identify strategic priorities for diversity and inclusion: build upon Dean’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion draft with community input

• Continue working with Student Government and the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion as the main conduits for ideas and concerns

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Please Weigh in on the Draft Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan

• Please complete this survey or go online at

http://tinyurl.com/DACDI-Feedback-1

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