Strategic Design for Year Two #withDeanMartin, LSA SG, and optiMize
Wednesday, November 8
7:00–8:00 p.m. Chemistry Building, Atrium
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Walk-ins are welcome. Pre-registration is optional but helps with organizers' planning.
In honor of the University-wide DEI Student Summit, LSA will work with students to design strategic models to inform the College for year two of our plan. Interested students are invited to join us for a “hack” session to respond to, critique and improve six concrete initiatives to achieve diversity-related goals.
Sign up for one – or more – hacks and then join us on November 8th for hands-on sessions. You'll work with peers to revise, comment on, or totally revamp these initiatives.
Learn more about the campus-wide initiatives at the Student Life Diversity Summit at5:30 p.m., and then join us in the Chemistry Building atrium to speak up about LSA-specific initiatives and hack the LSA plan with us. Dean Martin and other LSA representatives will be available to answer questions and chat starting at 6:30 p.m.Ready to challenge yourself and hack the LSA Strategic Plan?
Hack #1 - Train the Trainer: Building Inclusive Classrooms Challenge/Opportunity: LSA has over 1,200 faculty members and over 3,000 classes per term. Our plan is tailored to this reality. Create an online DEI training module for the faculty; incentivize them to use it.
Hack #2 - Train your Peers: The 30 for 80 Model Challenge/Opportunity: The 30 largest courses on campus reach close to 80% of the undergrad population. Create a flexible module for implicit bias training for use in these classes.
Hack #3 - Mapping R&E: Defining Student Driven Possibilities Challenge/Opportunity: We assessed the degree requirement and are continuing to implement changes, but we want more students to be involved. Help us to rethink the "Student Advisory Board" model; and create a user driven (aka student-centered, peer-to-peer) map of R&E courses to guide new LSA students in understanding the requirement and selecting courses.
Hack #4 - Dialogue and Ideological Diversity: The Democracy in Action Model Challenge/Opportunity: We increasingly live inside of ideological echo chambers and struggle to talk across differences. Hack the design of The Democracy in Action Fund.
Hack #5 - Shift Campus Climate: Forming a Critical Mass Challenge/Opportunity: It’s a big campus! LSA has over 17,500 undergraduates; not all of them are equally engaged. You probably can’t reach everyone. The key, we think, is creating critical mass. Hack the design of the LSA Inclusive Campus Corp.
Hack #6 - optiMize Transfer Students: Building Bridges to U-M Challenge/Opportunity: LSA has committed to increasing the number of transfer students to 1,200-1,300 per year. We want a major percentage from community colleges. We want to build “transfer bridges.” Hack the plan to use co-curricular orgs like optiMize to create them.
Insomnia cookies & hot chocolate provided!
For more information on each hack, visit the event page.
This event is part of the U-M Diversity Summit.
