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2019年7月30日

Dear campus community,

San Jose State is committed to academic excellence, diversity and inclusion. 之一 the many desired outcomes of Transformation 2030 is to “foster an inclusive environment and infrastructure where diverse populations 蓬勃发展.” In order to fulfill our mission, the Office of 多样性, Equity, and Inclusion has invited an outside consulting group, 兰金 & Associates Consulting to come to our campus to facilitate a campus climate study during the 2019-2020 academic 一年. Susan 兰金 and her colleagues at 兰金 & 同事(R&A] started this process when they came to campus this summer for a day of work with our 菠菜网lol正规平台 Campus Climate and Belonging 委员会 [CCBC] of 25 individuals from the ranks of staff, faculty and students. 这个工作 group will provide their perspectives and analysis to help R&A tailor a campus climate survey to the issues that are relevant to our campus communities.

The CCBC will be working with R&A to populate 22 focus groups in October 2019, which will be facilitated and analyzed for themes and findings by R&A. Those findings will be brought to the CCBC for analysis and selection of recommended campus climate survey questions (for the actual on-line survey to be administered during the Spring semester 2020). R&一个将 work closely with our Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics to seek IRB approval for the campus climate survey. R&一个将 also work with our Strategic Communication team to help us develop a marketing plan to generate excitement to support a survey completion participation rate of over 30 percent for undergraduates, graduate students, staff, faculty, and administrators.

R&A was chosen through a competitive RFP process earlier during the spring semester of 2019. R&A met several important criteria we believe are important for the process and findings to have a high level of integrity and credibility. They are as follows:

  • Strong theoretical background based in higher education studies research literature on diversity, inclusion, and equity in tertiary education institutions; these frameworks assume that the effects and impacts of inequity are systemic rather than disconnected 数据点. 
  • Ownership of data by 菠菜网lol正规平台 protected by IRB processes for future work and analysis; survey administration that would maximize anonymity and confidentiality (survey is housed and accessed through a web-based portal provided by R&A).
  • Findings and report are to be released and presented by R&A to the entire 菠菜网lol正规平台 community at the same time including the cabinet and president. 

We are excited and ready for the hard work ahead to carry out this large campus-wide initiative of the “belong@菠菜网lol正规平台” Campus Climate Study. The findings from the survey will drive the next step of developing plans and assessments for divisions and units across the campus to improve campus climate so that all students, staff and faculty can grow and thrive.

真诚地,

Kathy Wong(Lau) Signature.
Kathleen Wong(Lau)
Chief 多样性 Officer
Office of 多样性, Equity and Inclusion
Office of the President