Office of Equity and Diversity Oversight Committee February 20, 2008

The Office of Equity and Diversity Oversight Committee met primarily to make final edits to the 2003-2006 report. This report was compiled by Jeffrey Lewis from an open ended survey that was filled out by the learning communities around campus. We discussed problems with the survey method and ideas for the next survey. We also decided that a forum will be held and the report will be used to generate discussion.

Office of Equity and Diversity Meeting (20 February 2008)
Rachel Witt
1. Auditing Budget
a. currently Jeffrey Lewis is finalizing edits to 2003-2006 OED report
b. questionnaires were too vague and provided data that didn’t have quantifiable parameters
c. free choice in questionnaire did not give full report of activities in learning communities
d. auditing budget has been cut—Office of State Employment Relations only has three auditors and auditors often do not even visit site
2. Review of OED Report
a. primarily edited for presentation corrections
b. decided that report would serve exploratory function to determine areas that need to be evaluated and to generate a more useful questionnaire in the future
c. survey lacked direction for responses
d. forum or session planned for learning groups to come together and discuss results of questionnaire—report will serve to initiate conversation
e. report condensed to themes for discussion
3. Next meeting (6 March 2008)
a. review final copy of report
b. establish date for discussion forum