Timeline
2019
Feb. 1–April 15
Kick Off and Project Planning Phase
- Convene Diversity Campus Climate Assessment Committee
- Fill and clarify all roles: Advisory Team, Committee, Subcommittee members
- Finalize team charge
- Create and charge subcommittees
- Develop communication plan
- Update President’s Commission as requested
- Develop “heat map” to understand other internal campus survey efforts and their impact
- Agree on assumptions and domains of climate survey, scope of qualitative climate assessment activities and timetable
March 15–June 15
Initiate Qualitative Assessment Activities; Continue Survey Preparation
- Implement communication plan
- Begin implementing Qualitative Assessment Plan – create standards and respository for documenting input
- Agree on climate survey items and constituencies, reporting levels, demographics
- Agree on survey administration platform and details
- Convene Leadership Action Planning group
June 15–Sept. 15
Qualitative Assessment Planning: Climate Survey Testing
- Continue implementing communication plan
- Finalize and test climate survey
- Develop and test climate survey and survey items
- Agree on response rate strategies
- Continue planning for methods and vehicles for collecting qualitative climate assessment data during Fall Semester
- Develop reporting formats and distribution schedules
- Agree on schema for summarizing qualitative data findings
- Update President’s Commission
Sept. 1–15
Announcements about a Campus-Wide Engaged Climate Assessment Process: Includes Multiple Forums for Input as well as a limited Climate Survey
- Implement fall communication plan, including “branding” the campus assessment input and dialogue process
Oct. 1–Nov. 15
"Go Live” with Campus-Wide Engaged Diversity Climate Assessment Process: Including Multiple Forums for Input as well as a administration of a limited Climate Survey
- Administer climate survey to various constituencies through multiple pathways through a targeted sampling method to ensure validity
- Track on and report interim survey participation
- Encourage participation through various tactics
- Simultaneously engage campus in additional qualitative input:
- Face to face forums, other input formats
- Summarize data findings and begin analyses as survey constituencies or groups are completed
- Update President’s Commission
Nov. 15–Dec. 15
Reporting and Results Dissemination
- Nov. 15–Dec.15: Create and present EMU Overall 2019 climate assessment summary report to President’s Commission and Executive Cabinet
- Nov. 15–Dec. 15: Present EMU Overall 2019 climate assessment summary report to President’s Commission and Executive Cabinet
2020
Dec. 15–Jan. 31
Continued Reporting and Action Planning
- Begin distribution and presentation of school, college and unit reports
- Begin documenting survey process and lessons learned in preparation for the next administration of the survey
- Kick Off Action Planning
- Update CDI as required
- Recognize and disband teams