{"229651":{"#nid":"229651","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Office of Diversity Provides Climate Assessment Update","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast winter, 6,672 faculty, staff, and students responded to the Office of Diversity\u2019s climate assessment survey. But what happened since?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are actually in the final stages of completing the report that we hope to share with campus early this fall,\u201d said Vice President for Institute Diversity Archie Ervin. \u201cWe were so pleased to get the response rates that we did and are eager to use the information gleaned from this survey to start a dialogue with the campus community about our next steps.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe report is the culmination of more than two years of planning and effort, which began in July 2011, a few months after Ervin arrived at Tech. With support from Georgia Tech\u2019s leadership, Ervin and Jonathan Gordon, director of the Office of Assessment, assembled the Climate Assessment Task Force, which was charged with developing the survey in spring of 2012. (Julie Ancis, associate vice president for Institute Diversity, joined the task force leadership in the fall of 2012.) \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe provost asked us to develop a tool that would help measure and assess Tech\u2019s progress in terms of achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion, all elements of the strategic plan,\u201d Ervin said. \u201cThis is the first climate survey conducted at Tech that assesses perceptions of people across campus as they relate to Tech as a community that values collegiality, collaboration, intercultural respect, and thoughtful interaction.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe task force worked for the rest of 2012 to identify the issues that the three surveys (one for faculty, staff, and students) should explore. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis assessment was designed specifically for the Tech community by Tech faculty, staff, and students,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cIt might feel like a two-year time frame to complete this project is a long time, but it\u2019s actually typical for these types of assessments to take two years \u2014 especially when they are customized to suit the needs of the institution.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn February 2013, the electronic survey was sent to faculty, staff, and students. Since completion of the survey in March 2013, the Office of Assessment, working in consultation with the Office for Institute Diversity, has been busy compiling the data into a report that will synthesize the hundreds of pages of data collected. (A future \u003Cem\u003EWhistle\u003C\/em\u003E article will highlight the details shared in the report.) \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAn electronic version will be available to the campus community, and we will also be consulting with academic and administrative leaders regarding the outcomes that impact their respective units,\u201d Ancis said. \u201cOur office also plans to use the data to inform our new \u003Cbr \/\u003Eand existing initiatives for the next four to five years \u2014 when we hope to conduct another assessment.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:aervin@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EErvin\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast winter, 6,672 faculty, staff, and students responded to the Office of Diversity\u2019s climate assessment survey. But what happened since?\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Last winter, 6,672 faculty, staff, and students responded to the Office of Diversity\u2019s climate assessment survey. But what happened since?"}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2013-08-19 13:41:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:42","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.diversity.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Diversity Programs"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14051","name":"Archie Ervin"},{"id":"736","name":"diversity"},{"id":"57251","name":"Diversity Climate Assessment"},{"id":"15362","name":"Office of Institute Diversity"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}