Awards nominations are due on February 8, 2023 for the ASEE Best Diversity Equity and Inclusion Paper Award and the ASEE Constituent Award. Learn more here: https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/awards/

If you’d like to be a reviewer for the upcoming awards season or join the Awards Committee please email katey@edukatey.com

We are working with CDEI Communications team! An awards reminder post was tweeted. Please like and retweet—and tell your Divisions! https://twitter.com/ASEEDiversity/status/1617500645501673474?s=20&t=dUASo8XGLVmBkFnkNfqqKQ

The post is also on LinkedIn if you prefer to share that way: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/asee_cdei_diversityandinclusion-deiawards-aseecdei-activity-7018282483259502592-jxSq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

We are also working with CDEI Communications to create a spotlight on the 2022 Best Diversity Equity and Inclusion paper winner, Dr. Prasad Venugopal. As a reminder, his winning paper was "Integrating Race, Gender, and Indigenous Knowledge in the Introductory Physics Curriculum” https://peer.asee.org/integrating-race-gender-and-indigenous-knowledge-in-the-introductory-physics-curriculum

With a recent address update, we have finally sent all winners and runner-ups their certificates (it is a marathon, not a sprint).

We are also hoping to have a collaborative and productive way to resonate the messages and mission of the 2021 CDEI Constituent Award Winners: Black in Engineering (https://blackinengineering.org/) recognized for their collaborative efforts through the Black in Engineering Community and Advocates for Equity and Fairness in engineering and engineering education.

It was requested that the committee updates could be on slides and not in the chat ;)

ASEE HQ awards nominations are due February 8, including the ASEE Constituent Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. Due to pushed paper deadlines, the new due date for BDEI Paper Award nominations is now May 16.

Awards would like to thank partners in CDEI for their help! The CDEI Awards Committee is working in close collaboration with CDEI Communications: Baishakhi Bose is crafting a Spotlight about our past Best DEI paper winner, Dr. Prasad Venugopal. Comms has been sharing effective Awards advertising and updates on Twitter, LinkedIn and the CDEI website. Thank you, Comms Committee!
Awards would also like to thank Bri McIntyre and the PD Committee for providing great workshop options to our past Constituent DEI Award winner, Black in Engineering.

P2 attempting to provide training for authors to write quality DEI papers.

Could we be a round table with the topic—“Discussion/Critique: Tools for an Equity Audit” or similar? We have not made much progress towards this OKR

I want to honor Baishaki Bose of the Spotlights team! Give yourself a hand!

Open to ideas about that Equity Audit goal. Thanks.

ASEE CDEI LinkedIn Page: Continued updating LinkedIn with contents provided by other teams to highlight their work or any info. that they wanted to broadly disseminate to the CDEI committee. For subcommittee/teams: please forward info. you want highlighted/advertised on the LinkedIn page to Baishakhi Bose. Also, please share the page so that we can increase the network of people reached.
Scholar Spotlight Series: Identified/ reached out to several scholars to be highlighted in the upcoming months from various institutions. Received positive response from 4 people and we are currently working on compiling their responses and working with the communications team to have them posted on the website.

Thanks to Dennis Parnell for showing initiative to contribute towards the compilation of an upcoming scholar spotlight. Thanks to Karin Jensen for her promptness in creating flyers to be used for LinkedIn posts.

We have broken into three subteams and meet as a large group once a month. The subteams have had difficulty finding time to meet. We are planning a workshop at the national conference related to equity audits.

We are considering offering a virtual workshop with Dr. Modell on inclusive meetings.

We have subcommittees that are aligned with these.

I would love to see how to get better engagement with the members of this committee. We have issues with people responding to emails, and showing up at meetings. As such this is delaying our progress.

We are hosting a workshop on February 17, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (ET). Please refer to the link to view more information about the workshop.

https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/2023/01/20/contemplative-pedagogies-a-way-of-belonging-and-becoming-in-stem-education/

G1:We will provide professional learning opportunities at the annual conference. G2: We will provide virtual learning opportunities.

Do we have a contact list for our CDEI delegates? It would be great if we could send out upcoming workshops with the other divisions.

S/O to Christina Alston, Sarah Over, Cynthia Pickering, and Alison Kerr for reviewing proposals!

The Strategic Planning/Assessment Committee met on February 10 to discuss the following (1) Strategic Plan: Committee will reach out to committees/teams to review respective objectives and tracking process; tracker was updated to better capture committee/team progress. (2) Annual Survey: Cecilia Wigal will take the lead on drafting survey to reflect committee discussion; Committee chair will check with executive committee regarding previous surveys and appropriate timeline.

(1) When was the last annual survey conducted? Are results available for review? (2) What is expected timeline for annual survey? (3) Did board approve strategic plan?

Anyone who would like to be a part of this year's conference planning for CDEI, it isn't too late! Please complete this short survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASEE_CDEI_Conf_planning
You can also email r.reisberg@northeastern.edu to be added to the Conference Planning email list.
Note that although we hope you can join us in Baltimore, you don’t have to attend the conference to help with this.

We've continued to have monthly meetings. Typically, 2 or 3 sets of the same agenda each month to make it convenient to attend one of the meetings. We are organized into subcommittees.

• Will the ASEE Art department do work (banners, 4 large panels for “phone booth”) similar to last year? Is Ray the contact for this?
• Will there be any committee funding this year? If not, will we “skip” the footprints this year?

Completed compilation of 1 scholar spotlight to be posted in March. Currently working on 2 scholar spotlight compilation. Created and posted 6 post on CDEI linkedin page to celebrate Black History Month.

Dennis Parnell has been very helpful in creating the scholar spotlight for March. Shoutout to Sarah Lester for help in creating the blog post on the CDEI website.

We are planning a workshop for ASEE on Equity Audits

The ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (CDEI) Professional Development Committee invites faculty, staff, graduate students, and practitioners to share their expertise in promoting diverse, equitable, and inclusive environments in engineering education and the workforce by submitting a proposal for our virtual series. We encourage all prospective facilitators to design interactive sessions that actively engage participants and provide actionable practices and strategies that motivate participants to enact meaningful change in their environment.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScK5GWwYZoTpf1awTl9UE252bfpSCBR5DYlnae1Zj0IGPpw3A/viewform

All of our sessions were accepted for the annual conference. Due to a time conflict, we canceled the pay equity panel. This panel will be scheduled as a session in Fall 2023 (TBD).

2023 Conference Program: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g_ZQ1xVXidKGrk240sfFNdxzjZgUoJR_cFBOyZWcBBM/edit?usp=share_link

Moving forward, we are focusing on reaching out to the other divisions to see if they would like to feature a special session on the diversity flier for the annual conference.

G1:We will provide professional learning opportunities at the annual conference.

S/O to Christina Alston, Sarah Over, Cynthia Pickering, and Alison Kerr for consistent commitment to the Professional Development Team!

Highlighted a scholar on the website for March. Promoted Women's History Month on Linkedin through weekly posts. Promoted other subcommittee activities on LinkedIn

Grow G3 We will post meaningful, action-focused content on our regularly updated website. Communication

Marsha Kowal for being proactive and creating a survey to streamline future scholar spotlight process and for taking the lead in compiling upcoming scholar spotlight responses.

We hope you can join us on Friday, April 21, 2023, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (ET) and Friday, April 28, 2023, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM for our upcoming two-part panel focused on mental health and care in the academy.
Part 1: The Ethic of Care in the Academy: Practical Tips on How to Be Compassion Advocates
Part 2: The Ethic of Care in the Academy: Understanding and Overcoming the Culture of Silence
https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/workshops/

Grow G2 We will provide virtual learning opportunities. Professional Development

S/O to our Digital Communications Specialist, Cynthia Pickering, for managing our digital presence! We would also like to S/O Baishakhi Bose (LinkedIn) and Susan Boerchers (Twitter) for promoting our upcoming panels!

Please review papers nominated for the 2023 ASEE Best DEI Paper Award. We need volunteers to read and review papers. Contact Karin Jensen: kjens@umich.edu

CDEI Awards is proud to have supported 2021 ASEE CDEI Constituent Award Winners Black in Engineering on the organization and proposal of two excellent panels for CDEI on The Ethic of Care. Part 1 on April 21, 2023 focused on Practical Tips on How to Be Compassion Advocates, and Part 2 on April 28, 2023, centered on Understanding and Overcoming the Culture of Silence.

Empower E3 We will support members embracing difficult conversations with openness and empathy and handling discomfort and burnout inherent in DEI work. *Encouragement Team, Empower E5 We will spotlight scholars and DEIJ in engineering success stories. Awards

Karin Jensen has led the CDEI Awards recruiting efforts for CDEI Best DEI Paper Award paper reviewers and CDEI Paper Award finalist presentation reviewers.

We are working on developing a workshop around equity audits.

Participation in the committee has dwindled significantly. We are using our meetings to work on developing the workshop on equity audits.

Empower E4 We will coordinate activities for the ASEE Annual Conference that showcase CDEI and broaden participation. Conference Planning, Grow G1 We will provide professional learning opportunities at the annual conference. Professional Development, Grow G5 We will provide training for people interested in leading DEI workshops. Professional Development, Partner P2 We will build capacity for Divisions, Sections, and Zones to contribute quality diversity papers. Awards

Subcommittees are working on planning for the Division Mixer, the smaller Diversity Booth, rotating PowerPoint, creating a flyer, etc. ASEE TV has agreed to interview the CDEI leadership team. A call for volunteers to provide coverage for the Division Mixer, the Diversity Booth, and for moderators is planned for May.

Empower E4 We will coordinate activities for the ASEE Annual Conference that showcase CDEI and broaden participation. Conference Planning

A special thanks to Mahesh Aggarwal, Caroline Blassick, Leonard Bohmann, Teresa Larkin, Karen McGahee, Brianna McIntyre, Bala Maheswaran, Ruby Mehrubeoglu, Cristian Eduardo Vargas Ordonez, and Mudasser Wyne for their work on the CDEI Conference Planning committee.

Worked with Dr. Prasad Venugopal to complete a scholar highlight (to be published in CDEI website in May). Additionally, have been posting regularly on CDEI LinkedIn page to highlight heritage months, and any activities/workshops that other subcommittees want to highlight on social media platforms

Empower E5 We will spotlight scholars and DEIJ in engineering success stories. Awards

We are looking to highlight scholars conducting DEI work at their institutions. If you are interested in being highlighted in our website, or know someone who might be interested, please email Baishakhi Bose (bbose@lbl.gov)

Completed publishing a scholar highlight on a past DEI award winner (Dr. Venugopal). Continuing to manage the CDEI LinkedIn page and post relevant content (related to the heritage months, Pride celebration etc)

Within the past month, we've identified volunteers to facilitate DEI 100 and DEI 200. Each facilitator will meet a few weeks before the conference to prep for the sessions.

We also secured a sponsor for the Distinguished Topical Plenary Session. This funding will go towards the conversational style setup requested by the speaker. We plan on providing the speaker with a small gift (i.e., Custom Crystal Protein) to demonstrate our appreciation for her talk on critical mentorship in engineering education.

Bri has been working with the conference planning team on the slides and flyer. She will update the CDEI calendar to help promote the sessions at the conference.

Bri reached out to the program chairs to identify sessions focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. She received details for 12 sessions hosted across 5 divisions (e.g., MIND, COED, ERM, Student, and International). She sent this information to the Communication Team Chair (Tershia), but you can refer to this link to access the session information- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19vO5QzkWCshO2w9IrJFEptfkw9-c5aQv9x5FuYsiXi8/edit#gid=1505689288

In our next meeting (June 9), we will begin preparing for the 2023-24 term.

Grow G1 We will provide professional learning opportunities at the annual conference. Professional Development