EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOALS Recruit and retain a diverse student body.
Undergraduate Strategic Initiative: Create Diversity@Dietrich, A Series of DEI events and trainings Establish a fall and spring semester colloquium focused on DEI. We envision the colloquia to be a pairing of speakers (faculty working in this space, notable speakers from other institutions or local leaders) and student-led panels/workshops. F21 - Initiate F22 F23 F24 F25 Host monthly/quarterly lunch workshops targeted at educational practices for educating students, centered around a specific issue/problem/challenge each session. F21 - Initiate F22 F23 F24 F25 Increase awareness and marketing for DEI events already occurring around campus, making it easier for our students, staff and faculty to find and attend these events. F21 - In Progress F22 F23 F24 F25 Undergraduate Strategic Initiative: Launch the Dietrich Academy, a summer pre-college program for low-income, first-generation and/or other historically underrepresented students Develop LEAP - a high-quality, intensive summer program for low-income, first-generation and/or underrepresented students from the Pittsburgh region. We will aim to connect these students to each other fostering a strong cohort and to encourage them to identify with and apply to Dietrich College. F21 - In Progress F22 F23 F24 F25 Graduate Strategic Initiative: Provide equitable financial support to expand PhD Fellowships to support one program participant per year per department Repurpose existing Dietrich College fellowships so that instead of each unit receiving a small sum annually, the college uses these funds to bootstrap college-wide fellowships for PhDs who contribute to the College’s diversity. F21 - Complete F22 F23 F24 F25 Graduate Strategic Initiative: Develop programs for improving the pathway of the PhD students by building on existing undergraduate programs at the college level Create a framework and build the infrastructure to centralize certain aspects of existing programs aimed at increrasing diversity in the college that would ensure the long-term sustainability of such programs. F21 - Initiate F22 F23 F24 F25 Graduate Strategic Initiative: Fifth-year Masters Bridge Program Establish a one-year bridge-to-PhD post-baccalaureate or master’s program for students who contiibute o the College’s diversity. F21 - Initiate F22 F23 F24 F25
DIETRICH COLLEGE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PLAN
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