UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
INDICATORS GOAL 1: R ecruit and retain a diverse student body.
STRATEGY A: CREATE DIVERSITY@DIETRICH, A SERIES OF DEI EVENTS AND TRAININGS The success of the program can be measured through surveys administered at the end of each year to Dietrich College community members (see below). Additionally, we will consider attendance at events and feedback collected from event attendees as indicators for the program’s success. First, we would like to clarify that while this program has the potential to positively impact the Carnegie Mellon community as a whole, it will only be successful with cooperation with the university as a whole. For example, a better campus culture comes with direct recruitment and enrollment of students from multiple backgrounds and resources created for them. We find it important to also note that change will not be immediate. Programs like these that aim to alter an entire campus culture will take time to show results. STRATEGY B: LAUNCH THE DIETRICH ACADEMY, A SUMMER PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM FOR LOW-INCOME, FIRST-GENERATION AND/OR OTHER STUDENTS WHO CONTRIBUTE TO DIVERSITY Program participants will be surveyed at the beginning and end of the program. We will stay in close contact throughout their senior year and will track their success during the college admissions process and in the first few years of college. We will also stay in close contact with our partner organizations. While one main goal of the program will be to encourage the participants to apply to Dietrich College, our primary measure of success will be the program’s impact on the participants and their approach to their future education. GOAL 2: Provide an equitable and inclusive environment for students. STRATEGY A: CONDUCT A DIETRICH COLLEGE CULTURAL CLIMATE SURVEY FOR STUDENTS One primary indicator of success for this proposal is survey response rate. At best, university-wide surveys tend to garner a 40% response rate. Within the college, we expect inviting students to complete the survey to have a much stronger signal than university-wide requests that may get lost in communications to many students. A very conservative goal would be to get a 25% response rate that ideally captures 1) most, if not all, of our most underrepresented student group(s): Black (64 students) and Hispanic (35 students), 2) similar numbers of female and male respondents with some representation of students who identify as non-binary and 3) roughly equal distribution of racial representation. The second indicator of success is survey completion rate as we, of course, hope that all students who take the survey respond to all items.
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DIETRICH COLLEGE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PLAN
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