IDEA CenterBasic vs. Premiere Center

Committee Members Lelli Van Den Einde, Chair Farhat Beg, Secretary Pedro Cabrales CK Cheng Lisa French Tara Javidi Erica Kosa Espoir M Kyubwa Terrence Mayes Hared Ochoa Ebonee Williams

Meetings July 20, 2010 – Kick-off meeting August 3, 2010 August 17, 2010 September 2, 2010 September 14, 2010 September 24, 2010 October 5, 2010

Activities Developed Mission Statement Researched existing diversity centers and programs

University of Colorado, Boulder University of Texas Cornell UCLA UC Berkeley University of Virginia USC University of Tennessee, Knoxville MIT

Developed proposal for Basic and Premiere levels

Mission StatementThe IDEA Center promotes Inclusion, Diversity, Excellence, and Advancement among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff across the Jacobs School of Engineering. With a focus on outreach, recruitment, retention, and graduation, the center supports the mission of the Jacobs School by fostering the growth of diverse innovative technology leaders for today’s global society.

IDEA Center Structure

Four main divisions: Outreach and Recruitment Professional Development and Retention Research Health and Wellness

Basic vs. Premiere Center

Basic center: minimum level of effort needed to really make a difference Bare bone activities would only be a band-aid

Premiere center: more ambitious set of activities requiring significantly more funds Basic Center + more…

Outreach and RecruitmentBasic Center Premiere Center

K-14 outreach: Centralized coordination of existing departmental activities

Development of additional multi-disciplinary outreach efforts

Collaboration with COSMOS Expansion of COSMOS (more students, scholarships, assist in selection of students)

Research Expo for High School Teachers: integrated with Jacobs Research Expo; including workshop to train teachers on research related activities for the classroom

Undergraduate Student Recruitment: targeting high school and comm. colleges

Graduate Student Recruitment: outreach to successful diversity centers

Faculty and Post-Doc Recruitment: Center helps identify good candidates

Faculty and Post-Doc Recruitment: Funds for hosting candidates; recruitment of visiting scholars, post docs, and students to focus on diversity research

Professional Development

& Retention Basic Center Premiere Center Pre-freshman year prep

Third year (retention) prep

ENG 1A: required course

Freshman Cohorts

Red Shirt Program (maybe)

Bridge Programs

Professional Development

& Retention Basic Center Premiere Center Tutoring

Faculty Mentoring (center connects students with faculty volunteers who care about diversity)

Faculty Mentoring (Department faculty diversity coordinator conducts 1 on 1 mentorship and is compensated)

IDEA academic excellence awards recognizing academic achievement ($2500 for one student per department, honored at end of year banquet)

IDEA Scholars (variable scholarships)

5 Distinguished Scholars ($25K/year)

Peer mentoring: Coordinator matches incoming student with upper level student

Academic Excellence

Professional Development & Retention

Basic Center Premiere Center Resource Center (centralizing Jacobs School’s collective diversity effort through website clearinghouse)

Academic Job Workshops for Ugrad and Grad Students, Post-docs, Faculty

Enhancing the Educational Experience (Weekly networking hour, extended lecture series run by IDEA scholars, breakfast with Industry, Leadership Training)

Diversity events (Center develop own social, educational, and philanthropic events that promote diversity)

Academic Excellence, Contd.

Professional Development & Retention

Basic Center Premiere Center Diversity events (Leverage and promote events sponsored by UCSD cross-cultural center)

The IDEA Summit (Bring together an international group comprised of leading citizens, politicians, artists, academics, students and community members to focus on finding solutions to one or more topic that relate to inclusion, diversity, engineering excellence or advancement)

Distinguished Professors

Distinguished Fellows

Academic Excellence, Contd.

ResearchBasic Center Premiere Center Summer volunteer program (hands-on research for ugrads with UCSD faculty)

Grant proposals:Coordinate high school teacher/student involvement in research;Support faculty with calls for proposals in general research grants

Grant proposals:

Support faculty with calls for proposal in diversity research grants

Idea Fellows (grad fellowships, first yearfunding)

Distinguished Fellows (full funding for 3 years)

Scholarships for travel to conferences (grad and faculty)

Visiting Scholars (providing small amount of dollars as supplement to give lectures for seminar series)

Distinguished Visiting Professorships (full funding for minimum 3 months)

Diversity ResearchBasic Center Premiere Center

Devise matrices to measure quality of diversity research

Explore methodology, policy, strategies to improve diversity in organizations

Research history of diversity and future trends

Study regulations, practices and utilities to erase barriers for handicaps

Serve as consulting center to resolve diversity issues

Seminar series related to diversity research (Visiting Professors in Residence requirement)

Health & WellnessBasic Center Premiere Center

Counseling Services Staff

Web information on stress management, time management, mental health awareness, financial management, wellness, holistic health

Workshops, web information on stress management, time management, mental health awareness, financial management, wellness, holistic health (for faculty, staff and students)

Staffing RequirementsBasic Center Premiere Center Director: reporting to dean or associate dean

Associate Director for Outreach and Recruitment

Associate Director for Professional Development and Retention

Program Coordinator for Research Associate Director f or Research

2 AAIII Administrative assistants 3 AAIII administrative assistants

Counseling Psychologist (50% time)

Associate Director for Health & Wellness

Tutor Coordinator

Space RequirementsBasic Center Premiere Center Office space for director and staff

Student lounge

Tutoring Space

Computer Space

New or refurbished Engineering Living and Learning Dorm Building

New or refurbished IDEA Center building (ideally connected to dorm building)

Thank You Lelli Van Den Einde, Chair Farhat Beg, Secretary Pedro Cabrales CK Cheng Lisa French Tara Javidi Erica Kosa Espoir M Kyubwa Terrence Mayes Hared Ochoa Ebonee Williams

& The Dean for sending out the call to action

Mission StatementThe IDEA Center promotes Inclusion, Diversity, Excellence, and Advancement among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff across the Jacobs School of Engineering. With a focus on outreach, recruitment, retention, and graduation, the center supports the mission of the Jacobs School by fostering the growth of diverse innovative technology leaders for today’s global society.