Career Development Professionals of Indiana, Inc.

Fall 2015 ConferenceOctober 2, 2015

Coming Together for Change

Benjamin YoungVice President Emeritus

Ivy Tech Community College

Presenter’s BackgroundPresenter’s Background

•Student Affairs Student Affairs

•Diversity, Equity, and InclusionDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion

•RetirementRetirement

Career Development Professional of Indiana, Inc. Career Development Professional of Indiana, Inc.

•MissionMission•VisionVision•Core ValuesCore Values•Diversity & Inclusion StatementDiversity & Inclusion Statement•Board OverviewBoard Overview

About Ivy TechAbout Ivy Tech

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College Mission: As a statewide, open-access community college, Ivy Tech Community College provides residents of Indiana with professional, technical, transfer, and lifelong education for successful careers, personal development, and citizenship. Through its affordable, quality educational programs and services, the College strengthens Indiana’s economy and enhances its cultural development.

College Vision: Changing Lives/Making Indiana Great

Core Values (We value, respect, & promote):

Grounding

Background

• Indiana passes State House Enrolled Act No. 1256 in 2007

• Statewide outreach begin in Fall 2007

• College Statement of Diversity first developed & approved in 2007

• December 2007 Diversity Report to State Board of Trustees

• Hired first full-time, statewide diversity officer in 2008; served 15 months

• Benjamin Young appointed Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion effective July 1, 2013

House Enrolled Act No. 1256

(A) The college’s state board of trustees shall create a diversity committee at the home campus and at each regional campus to:

• Review faculty employment policies concerning diversity

• Review faculty and staff personnel complaints concerning diversity

• Promote and maintain cultural diversity among faculty members

• Promote recruitment and retention of minority students

(B) The diversity committee shall issue an Annual Report stating findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the board of trustees

State Statute

Mission Statement

Ivy Tech Community College is committed to a diverse and inclusive Ivy Tech Community College is committed to a diverse and inclusive educational environment that extends beyond tolerance to respect and educational environment that extends beyond tolerance to respect and affirms human difference. Therefore, diversity, as defined by Ivy Tech, affirms human difference. Therefore, diversity, as defined by Ivy Tech,

includes, but is not limited to, differences in race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, includes, but is not limited to, differences in race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, regional and national origin, color, gender, sexual orientation, regional and national origin, color, gender, sexual orientation,

socioeconomic status, age, disability, and political affiliation. By socioeconomic status, age, disability, and political affiliation. By encouraging free and open discourse, providing educational opportunities encouraging free and open discourse, providing educational opportunities

within and outside its classrooms, and intentionally recruiting and retaining a within and outside its classrooms, and intentionally recruiting and retaining a diverse assembly of students, faculty and staff, the College endeavors to diverse assembly of students, faculty and staff, the College endeavors to

graduate culturally literate individuals who will make positive contributions to graduate culturally literate individuals who will make positive contributions to a local, national, and global society.a local, national, and global society.

2014-15 Goals

Develop & sustain recruitment & retention of diverse faculty & staff

Increase enrollment of diverse students

Increase persistence & credentials conferred to diverse students

Statewide

# % # % % # % %Northwest 3,412 35% 33 25% -10% 104 51% 16%North Central 2,097 26% 14 13% -13% 28 23% -3%Northeast 2,190 21% 10 7% -14% 13 8% -13%Lafayette 694 10% 7 7% -3% 11 7% -3%Kokomo 415 8% 6 7% -1% 16 7% -1%East Central 828 10% 6 5% -5% 23 14% 4%Terre Haute 291 5% 1 1% -4% 7 5% 0Central Indiana 7,028 32% 25 13% -19% 104 33% 1%Richmond 183 5% 3 7% 2% 11 11% 6%Columbus 161 3% 3 5% 2% 4 6% 3%Southeast 45 2% 0 0 -2% 2 3% 1%Southwest 649 11% 4 5% -6% 11 10% -1%Sellersburg 467 9% 2 3% -6% 6 7% -2%Bloomington 351 6% 3 4% -2% 7 6% 0Statewide 18,853 18% 116 9% -9% 372 18% 0

Status: Green: Satisfactory (Meets College Standards--Zero & Positive Percentages)Yellow: Watch List (Warrants Immediate Attention--Negative Percentages between -1 and -4)Red: Unsatisfactory (Requires Intervention Plan within 60 Days--Negative Percentages Starting with -5 and Above)

Rule:In situations of over-representation (such as +16%), this is considered a good thing but not an excuse to stop making progress. No region has to try and correct over-representation while the statewide percentages and counts remain under-represented.

Four-Year Averages Comparing African-American & Latino Students to Full-time African-American & Latino Faculty & Staff

Difference Students to Faculty

Difference Student to

Staff

African-American & Latino Student

Population

Full-time African-American & Latino

Faculty

Full-time African-American & Latino

StaffRegion

Overall fall 2011-to-fall 2012 retention rate for full-time students: 46%

Overall fall 2011-to-fall 2012 retention rate for part-time students: 40% 

Graduation rates for the fall 2009 cohort (reported in 2012) 

Overall graduation rate: 8%African American: 2%Latino: 6%Caucasian: 9%Asian: 8%Nonresident alien: 12%

Peer ComparisonsPeer Comparisons

  

STATES WITH LOWER COLLEGE ATTAINMENT RATES THAN STATES WITH LOWER COLLEGE ATTAINMENT RATES THAN INDIANAINDIANA

Intersection of CDPI & Member Intersection of CDPI & Member InstitutionsInstitutions

Institutional Commitment to Diversity Chief officer’s position Resources, targeted programs Seat at the table Alignment with strategic plan Diversion—global, gender, etc. Embedded in course outlines

Advocacy Public Evidence based, correct myths Beyond middle-level mentality Call to action-everyone’s work Sustain effort in face of hardships

Role of CDPI Members

Embrace Joint ACPA & NASPA document (2010) for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion & Leadership

Challenge status quo, become change agent; collaborate with others (internally & externally)

Challenges

Young in career

Companionship

Leadership

ROI/Benefits

Diversity enriches the educational experience. Diversity enriches the educational experience. We We learn from those whose experiences, beliefs, and learn from those whose experiences, beliefs, and perspectives are different from our own, and these perspectives are different from our own, and these lessons can be taught best in a richly diverse lessons can be taught best in a richly diverse intellectual and social environment.intellectual and social environment.

It promotes personal growth--and a healthy It promotes personal growth--and a healthy societysociety. Diversity challenges stereotyped . Diversity challenges stereotyped preconceptions; it encourages critical thinking; and it preconceptions; it encourages critical thinking; and it helps students learn to communicate effectively with helps students learn to communicate effectively with people of varied backgrounds. people of varied backgrounds.

It strengthens communities and the workplaceIt strengthens communities and the workplace. Education . Education within a diverse setting prepares students to become good within a diverse setting prepares students to become good citizens in an increasingly complex, pluralistic society; it fosters citizens in an increasingly complex, pluralistic society; it fosters mutual respect and teamwork; and it helps build communities mutual respect and teamwork; and it helps build communities whose members are judged by the quality of their character whose members are judged by the quality of their character and their contributions.and their contributions.

It enhances America's economic competitivenessIt enhances America's economic competitiveness. . Sustaining the nation's prosperity in the 21st century will Sustaining the nation's prosperity in the 21st century will require us to make effective use of the talents and abilities of require us to make effective use of the talents and abilities of all our citizens, in work settings that bring together individuals all our citizens, in work settings that bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures. from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

We can only strengthen our institution as a whole if we enhance new minds and

views on diversity.

Milligan, 2010

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