Stewards:

Todd Ester & Karyn Procter-Wicks

Committee Liaison:

Dinella Crosby

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Profile for Success (PFS) has raised $675,000 in total support.

  • Completed a schoolwide climate study in fall 2022 to assess the school community with plans to report results in school-wide town halls in 2023.

  • A three-part Implicit Bias Training was held in the fall of 2022 for students, staff, and faculty. Seventy attended part I and 59 attended parts II and II.

  • The school has awarded 87 Pipeline Scholarships between 2016-2023 through Pathway to Dentistry Scholarships.

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

  • Maintain the quality of the PFS program and continue to grow the Endowment fund.

  • Participate in DEI 2.0 campus-wide initiative.

  • Ensure Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) workshop attendance continues as a requirement for faculty search committees.

  • Continue to seek ways to decrease staff turnover even further.

DEI FOCUS


Ensure that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are integral in the hiring of staff and faculty as well as admission of students in the Predoctoral and Graduate programs.
  *Mental health and well-being in being proposed to be included in the People domain moving forward.