Provide DEIJ educational opportunities throughout the year and provide support for CEEO members to pursue their own DEIJ education. These opportunities will promote the continual development of DEIJ values and practices and will help CEEO members align their work to these values.
PURPOSE
DEIJ education for all CEEO members will provide an understanding of issues and give people the tools they need to adopt anti-racist practices in their work.
COMMITTEE
The DEIJ Committee has been:
- Arranging for outside consultants to do center-wide trainings
- Sharing DEIJ resources and events with CEEO through a Slack channel, and
- Arranging for relevant speakers and presenters to attend CEEO meetings.
GOALS
Schedule DEIJ Education Opportunities and Retreats
The DEIJ Committee will organize, host, and/or promote DEIJ-related educational opportunities to CEEO members three times a year. The DEIJ Committee will invite guests to speak to the CEEO and identify different trainings that are available through external sources. Educational opportunities can include a variety of formats including: interactive activities, talks and lectures, instructional videos, discussion groups, etc. The DEIJ Committee will plan one training each semester (3 annually) and one retreat annually.
Communication of Tufts Resources and Educational Opportunities to CEEO Community
The DEIJ Committee will identify and communicate different resources that Tufts is offering to CEEO members through the CEEO #Anti-Racism Slack channel to continue to inform CEEO members about offerings through Tufts School of Engineering and other Tufts University departments and schools. The DEIJ Committee will aim to share at least one resource a month.
TIMELINE
Tufts is currently developing university-wide training around DEIJ. This will ensure a shared baseline understanding. After this is released, the DEIJ Committee will assess what additional trainings are needed specific to CEEO, source the training, and develop a training schedule.
OUTCOMES
FALL 2023
CEEO Meetings
- Kat Allen presentation about accessibility in making
- Simone Nicholson from Center for STEM Diversity presented on her dissertation research about HBUs and her work at CSD
OLF Meetings
- Conversation with Mafalda Gueta to discuss working in schools
SUMMER 2023
- Two-day Universal Design for Learning training by CAST
- Presentation about CEEO DEIJ efforts included in summer employee orientation
- Summer employee training by consultants Angele Goss and Liz Dempsey Lee
- Shared resources on summer employee Slack workspace
- Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) Trainings on Mandatory Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Training
- Summer High School Program (EDL & EI) Orientation including DEIJ
- Professionalism in the Workplace
- Tufts Working with One Another Policy
- Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, and Stereotypes
- Productive Engineering Dialogue (Approaches to Effective and Inclusive Engineering Talk)
- Encouraging students to attend Tufts Juneteenth events during paid work hours
SPRING 2023
- Two center-wide trainings with Mafalda Gueta to develop shared intentions and learn about LARA method of active listening
- Custom workshop on digital accessibility for Google Slides by Tufts Digital Accessibility Specialist Pamela Thomas
FALL 2023
- Hosted center-wide training with CELT on assessments
SUMMER 2022
- Summer employee training by consultants Angele Goss and Liz Dempsey Lee
SPRING 2022
- Tufts Associate Director, Diversity & Inclusion Education S. Rae Peoples led two sessions of training on micro-aggressions
FALL 2021
- Guest Speaker: Greses Pérez present on research about students who experience cultural and linguistic mismatch between the practices of their communities and those in engineering and science
- Discussion: Watch and discuss Bryan Brown’s Talk
- Presentation: Post Doc Desen Ozkan presented on her research with Edward Alexander, Jr. from Center for STEM Diversity “Student Voices”, sharing some experiences of students of color at Tufts
SUMMER 2021
- Presentation about JEDI project in ES2 by faculty
- Guest speaker Chris Swan, Dean of Undergraduate Education, Tufts University School of Engineering
- Affinity group meetings
SPRING 2021
- CEEO Meeting about Allyship: Small group discussions and share outs on ways to be a better ally, including sharing of resources on allyship.
- Guest Speaker: Edward Alexander, Jr. from Tufts Center for STEM Diversity spoke about his research collecting stories from Tufts students.
- CEEO Meeting presentation about the Tufts Springboard project Piloting a learning Assistant model for a Justice-based Engineering and Data science Initiative in ES-2 (JEDI-Pilot)
FALL 2020
CEEO Meetings
Centered one regular CEEO meetings around DEIJ each month.
- Degrees of Racism – Read and discussed The Difference Between First-Degree Racism and Third-Degree Racism. Also created slide deck with everyone’s personal goals for DEIJ work.
- Anti-Racism Discussion – Read chapter from “How to be an Antiracist” and had group discussion about meritocracy in America
- Discussion on Tangible Changes at the CEEO – Broke into groups to discuss changes that we could make in various aspects of our work (everyday life, tools/tech development, research, and outreach).
Virtual Lunch Discussion
Hosted virtual lunch discussions during which we watched video together as a group followed by group discussion.
SUMMER 2020
CEEO Conversation Series (Led by CEEO faculty, staff, and students)
- Session 1: Getting Started – Discussion about the goals of the conversations, norms, identification of issues
- Session 2: Birth of a White Nation – Conversation after viewing video on the history/origins of racism in America
- Session 3: Diversifying the CEEO – A conversation about Globe Spotlight Series article on lack of diversity at local universities and on how to diversify CEEO’s workforce
- Session 4: Affinity Group Conversation – Groups of CEEO individuals discussing and reflecting on their own experiences
- Session 5: Racism in Engineering Design – Conversation about racism in engineering profession/products/designs based on Racism is America, Manifested in Engineering Design and From Park Bench to Lab Bench
- Session 6: Engineering Outreach: How to make more equitable engineers; How does CEEO conduct K-12 outreach and support pathways to STEM Careers.