Faculty

CHHS Dean's Faculty Fellow. (Focus on DEI in Strategic Plan this year)

For the second academic year, Dean Catrine Tudor-Locke appointed a CHHS Dean's Faculty Fellow to assist with a special project in the Dean's Office. This year, the 2021-2022 CHHS Dean's Faculty Fellow is Dr. Diana Rowan. She is focusing on exploring metrics to...

CHHS Diversity, Inclusion & Equity (DIvE) Commitee (Dr. Dante Bryant, Chair)

This is a standing Committee in the CHHS. It is comprised of representatives from units across the College, and is composed of faculty and staff who are committed to promotion of DEI. The mission is as follows: "The purpose of the DIvE committee is to assist with...

Mental Health Research and Practice Division

Vision The vision of the Mental Health Research and Practice Division is to serve as an international center of excellence and pipeline for the implementation of affirmative, strengths-based research and practices that aim to heal and transform diverse individuals...

Race and Social Equity Academy (RASE)

The Race and Social Equity Academy (RASE) fosters the scholarship of practice and research focused on advancing racial and social parities within the community. Along with empirical scholarship, race dialogue will be supported through intellectual discourse,...

Research Academy

Academy for Veteran and Military Health (AVMH)’s mission is to develop partnerships for excellence in research, service, and education for veterans, military and their families. The mission assumes our customer is the veteran, military member and their families....

Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness

How can we—historians, writers, musicians, audiences—understand the legacy and impact of a musician like Dave Brubeck? It is undeniable that Brubeck leveraged his fame as a jazz musician and status as a composer for social justice causes, and in doing so, held to a...

Best Practices in Inclusive Faculty Recruitment

We work with all members of search committees to better understand best practices in the practices for hiring. These are not specific only to understanding bias in the process and how to minimize the impact of bias but does include it. We review the hiring data...

Equity Committee

Created a department level equity committee to address issues/concerns at the departmental level

Faculty retention

Mentoring circles (Department level)

Atkins DEIA in Descriptive Practices Working Group

The DEIA in Descriptive Practices Working Group is tasked with devising strategies to address controlled vocabulary terms and other language used in the descriptions of resources in Atkins Library’s search systems about people of color and marginalized communities...