2024-10-16 Meeting notes

2:30PM

Merging RRSS JEDI and IPPS EDI

• Setting up a monthly meeting

  • To decide what the year would look like and setting some goals

• RRSS JEDI helps facilitate cultural events throughout the calendar year

  • Having different committees for different months

• Providing information on if JEDI having attend

• How does a monthly JEDI meeting look like?

  • Initial one would be to take a look at the goals that we want to accomplish

  • JEDI wants to incorporate the PA piece

  • Create a timeline of what each month looks like

    • Lessons learned after each event

  • Getting feedback from others

  • If we build out a standing agenda

    • Campus wide EDI updates or things that are going on in the world

    • Not just a planning meeting, but a community space

    • An educational component in the agenda? Current events? What is happening in our world

    • Navigating tricky conversations

• In the first meeting, we reconceptualize everything

  • Tier 1 - WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO DO

  • Tier 2: WHAT IS A GOAL

• Transitioning from a monthly meeting to a quarterly meeting

• Clear definition of what leadership wants to do with EDI - things have shifted

  • More reduction of personnel

  • Anxiety of employees

  • Putting something together and showing it to leadership to get their support

• The original concept of the EDI + IPPS group

  • Leadership did not have an idea of what the EDI Committee was

  • Expectations

• Kathy will schedule some time for us to meet in-person!

  • Reconceptualize JEDI

  • What do we envision it looking like

  • Incorporate the bookstore!

• Feedback from the staff! Feedback from the department! Survey!

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Topics for the 2nd half of the year

• FSAP coming to IPPS

• Kacy & Tony leading and art + EDI session