Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.52
Liaison Sarah Wald
Submission Date Nov. 16, 2011
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Drew University
PAE-6: Diversity and Equity Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Carlos Yordan
Special Assistant on Diversity, Chair of the Drew Diversity Committee
Political Science
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Does the institution have a diversity and equity committee?:
Yes

The charter or mission statement of the committee or a brief description of the committee's purview and activities :

Drew University is committed to seeking academic excellence while striving continuously to be a welcoming, diverse, and a socially just campus. We aspire to provide an education that in content, scope, and pedagogy embraces difference and promotes respect that extends beyond the classroom to all University spaces and to local and global communities. Diversity encompasses multiple dimensions including but not limited to race, culture, nationality, ethnicity, geographic origin, class, sexual orientation, gender, disability, age, and religion. Our intent is to achieve a learning environment in which students, faculty, and staff understand the challenges, accomplishments, and perspectives of various groups of people, thus gaining a fuller understanding of themselves as well as how to engage in conversation spanning differences and commonalities. Achieving this vision is a fundamental commitment critical to Drew University’s mission as an institution of higher learning.


Members of the committee, including job titles and affiliations :

Prof. George-Harold Jennings,University Affirmative Action Officer Staff Psychologist & Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology

Dr. Virginia Samuel, Interim Dean of Campus Life and Student Affairs,

Mr. Frank C. Merckx, Associate Dean of Campus Life and Student Affairs

Ms. Deborah Raikes-Colbert, Director of Human Resources

Dr. Carlos Yordan, Special Assistant on Diversity, Chair of the Drew Diversity Committee; Political science dept.

Alan Dawson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Student representatives from the student government (yearly basis)


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Does the institution have a diversity and equity office?:
No

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Does the institution have a diversity and equity coordinator?:
No

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