Current and Ongoing Activities:

 

  • Developing and enacting plans for recruiting and supporting students, faculty, and staff from a wide range of backgrounds and held identities. The working "DEI Hiring Resource Guide" will be available for all searches starting in 2022 and beyond.
  • Continuing our departmental work with students, faculty, and staff with Consultant Professor Kaja Dunn. https://www.kajadunn.com/edi.html
  • Working to increase the transparency of all aspects of the Department of Dramatic Arts DEI Committee through open sessions and published meeting minutes and agendas accessible to all.
  • Continue to fund guest speakers, workshops, and research centered on DEI as well as fund individual and a la cart training opportunities for students, faculty, and staff. 
  • Continuing the dialogue with students about where the department needs to improve in its DEI efforts and what students view as priorities 
  • Compiling a list of resources to help faculty in their efforts to diversify and decolonize their curriculum.
  • Helping the department improve cultural competency, to create a welcoming environment for all of our students, faculty, and staff.
  • Compiling a list of play publishers, rightsholders, and sources to help CRT find and consider projects not represented by the largest rights-holding houses.
  • Passed a requirement for all undergraduate students to take at least one course from a block of courses focusing on BIPOC theatre traditions and histories. This requirement is in addition to the University General Education Diversity Requirement, ensuring that students engage these topics within their primary area of study.
  • Continuing to hold ourselves in the committee and in the department accountable for action and progress.