Campus Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
CCDEI Charge
Committee Structure
Members
The San José State University (SJSU) Campus Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CCDEI) is a presidential campus standing committee of students, staff, administrators, faculty, and alumni will assess issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion at SJSU. The CCDEI will identify equity gaps and make recommendations to the President on addressing systemic historical inequities on an annual basis. The President will meet with the committee twice a year to share progress from the previous year’s recommendations.
Committee Charge:
The CCDEI will utilize a systemic change lens to:
- Engage campus communities through public forums to gather input and information from a broad representation of its students, staff, and faculty across units and institutional divisions
- Identify priority areas and issues for increasing systemic change on equity for historically marginalized groups
- Identify priority areas and issues for improving campus climate for students, staff, and faculty
- Assess relevant and available data and reports (Task Force reports, WASC, enrollment data, climate survey data, available survey data from units such as Financial Aid and Scholarship Office, University Personnel, Bursar’s Office and other units, as well as traditional institutional data) to support the identification of inequitable outcomes and practices as well as equitable outcomes and practices
- Identify effective programs, practices, and initiatives that could be replicated and increased at scale to effect increases in diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Innovate and recommend effective programs, practices and initiatives
- Produce an annual report with findings and recommendations to the President by June 1 of each academic year Spring 2021 Report
Committee Structure:
Lead by SJSU's Chief Diversity Officer, a tenured faculty member and a staff member, CCDEI members will serve a two-year term. Committee members are appointed to one or two year terms so that there can be a staggering of appointment terms to support continuity and institutional memory in the work of the committee.
The committee will form subcommittees, which will have formal liaisons from the CCDEI. Subcommittee members may be nominated from outside of the CCDEI. The CCDEI will invite subcommittee members based on expertise, content knowledge and ability to work collaboratively in teams on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Leadership/Tri-Chairs:
- Chief Diversity Officer
- A Tenured Faculty Member
- A Staff Member
1 See Alumni vs. Alumnus