OPEN LETTER
TIMELINE
Completed tasks in green.
Uncompleted tasks in pink.
CURRICULUM & FACULTY
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Faculty Assembly vote to endorse Open Letter
Due Date: 8/13/2020
Assignee: Vicky
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/5/2020
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All Faculty encouraged (by faculty committee) to read the full Open Letter
Due Date: 8/28/2020
Assignee: Vicky
Created: 10/6/2020
Completed: 10/6/2020
Assignee: Vicky
Created: 10/6/2020
Completed: 10/6/2020
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All Faculty encouraged (by faculty committee) to survey students' learning styles and differences
Due Date: 8/28/2020
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All Faculty encouraged (by faculty committee) to consider seriously costs associated with their courses
Due Date: 8/28/2020
Assignee: Vicky
Created: 10/6/2020
Completed: 10/6/2020
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Review guidelines for course syllabi
Due Date: 8/28/2020
Assignee: Vicky
Created: 10/6/2020
Completed: 10/6/2020
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C/TIE develop mid-semester course check-in survey for faculty use
Due Date: 9/11/2020
Assignee: David
Created: 10/6/2020
Completed: 10/6/2020
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Provide student access to SafeCollege modules for review and comment
Due Date: 9/24/2020
Assignee: Mike
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/5/2020
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Finalize and launch the Space for Creative Black Imagination
Due Date: 10/15/2020
Assignee: Sheri
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 10/22/2020
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Review approved Faculty Assembly response to Open Letter
Due Date: 12/4/2020
Assignee: Vicky
Created: 11/20/2020
Completed: 12/10/2020
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Disseminate faculty response to SVA Open Letter to students, staff, faculty
Due Date: 12/4/2020
Assignee: Siân, Sofia
Created: 12/10/2020
Completed: 12/10/2020
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Develop plan & process for including students in faculty search committees
Due Date: 1/29/2021
Assignee: David
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 1/29/2020
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C/TIE to plan and run programs for Faculty on inclusive teaching, anti-racist pedagogy, critique culture, etc.
Due Date: 5/14/2021
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Students/Alumni provide feedback on SafeCollege modules
Due Date: 4/27/2021
Assignee: David
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 1/18/2021
Assignee: Cole, Sofia, Deyane, Sam
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: --
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Academic Affairs + Faculty OL Committee to institutionalize peer based avenues for faculty DEIG grant funding
Due Date: 10/1/2021
Assignee: David
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: --
3/26 Update: On the verge; funding available via Provost's Office, criteria needs to be finalized by FA / Grants Committee
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Develop a new version of Critical Inquiry ("Frameworks")
Due Date: 1/1/2022
Assignee: David
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: --
4/27 Update: Humanistic Studies created initial draft, protype in Fall '21 or Spring '22
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Launch mentoring program for BIPOC faculty (Part of agenda for newly launched CORE)
Due Date: 5/1/2022
Assignee: Doug
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/15/2020
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AA/HR/CTIE/DEI collaboration on generation 2 of faculty inclusive, anti-racist pedagogy training
Due Date: 5/1/2022
Assignee: David
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: --
BUDGET
SHARED GOVERNANCE WORKGROUP
EQUITY / TITLE IX / NONDISCRIMINATION
COMMUNICATION
EMPLOYMENT
LRC & CAMPUS ACCESSIBILITY
MISCELLANEOUS
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Provide demographics of EA impacted employees
Due Date: 10/9/2020
Assignee: David
Created: 4/27/2020
Completed: --
4/27 Update: create vehicles more comprehensive than SafeColleges
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Share with OL Workgroup the student committee pay philosophy finalized Summer 2020
Due Date: 10/22/2020
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Shared criteria used for Employment Actions back to Open Letter group
Due Date: 10/9/2020
Assignee: Mike
Created: 10/22/2020
Completed: 10/22/2020
Assignee: Doug
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/15/2020
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Seek consultation from Audrey Tanner, VP Admissions, regarding resetting and/or avenues for waiving MICA application fees
Due Date: 11/19/2020
Assignee: Sammy, Mike
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 11/20/2020
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Frame re-vitalized Budget and Financial Priorities Committee
Due Date: 12/17/2020
Assignee: Doug
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 12/17/2020
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Get a report on the Emergency Technology Fund in place for FY '21, how it was used, and what resources may be necessary moving forward
Due Date: 5/14/2021
Assignee: Doug
Created: 12/10/2020
Completed: --
Assignee: Doug
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 4/27/2021
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Launch Budget and Financial Priorities Committee
Due Date: 10/1/2021
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Review and update (lower) the Housing Deposit as part of the Admissions process to ease the financial burden of enrolling
Due Date: 11/1/2021
Assignee: Mike
Created: 11/20/2020
Completed: --
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Explore separating MICA Work Study funds for use by international students with need; formalize a proposal for increased international student aid
Due Date: 5/1/2022
Assignee: Sammy, Mike
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: --
4/27 Update: Included on the fundraising comprehensive campaign priorities
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Shared identified resource needs for CII as defined by Director after year-long review
Due Date: 5/1/2022
Assignee: David
Created: 11/10/20
Completed: --
3/26 Update: CII reorged into new CORE area, resources being reconsidered
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Finalize members for Shared Governance Workgroup
Due Date: 9/24/2020
Assignee: Mike
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/5/2020
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Launch Shared Governance Workgroup
Due Date: 10/16/2020
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Sunset Shared Governance Workgroup
Due Date: 5/31/2021
Assignee: Sammy
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/15/2020
Assignee: Sammy
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: --
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Expand CII/CCC/CSE in-class workshop series
Due Date: 9/1/2020
Assignee: Mike, Karol
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 10/9/2020
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Launch advisory group for RFP / external review
Due Date: 9/25/2020
Assignee: Sammy
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/5/2020
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Finalize institutional Land Acknowledgment statement
Due Date: 8/1/2021
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Add race/ethnicity information regarding employment actions to MICA website
Due Date: 10/23/2020
Assignee: Mike, Sheri
Created: 10/6/2020
Completed: --
4/27 Update: Interim statement in use for Commencement; engaging local tribal leaders to assist and approve permanent version
Assignee: Doug
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 4/12/2021
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Mike, Deyane, Sofia, and Cole to communicate with SVA Cabinet re: SVA updating campus on Open Letter Work
Due Date: 10/16/2020
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Launch SVA Communication / Progress Website
Due Date: 5/31/2021
Assignee: Julea Seliavski
Created: 12/10/2020
Completed: --
Assignee: Mike, Deyane, Sofia, Cole
Created: 10/9/2020
Completed: 12/10/2020
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New HR leadership to revise Employee Handbook; include a section on student employment
Due Date: 1/31/2022
Assignee: Sammy
Created: 11/10/2020
Completed: --
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Distribute results of campus physical access audit to workgroup
Due Date: 12/4/2020
Assignee: Doug
Created: 11/10/2020
Completed: 12/10/20
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Develop multi-year plan for campus physical infrastructure improvements based on GWWO audit (to be done by audit workgroup)
Due Date: 11/1/2021
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Develop an LRC advisory council
Due Date: 2/12/2021
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Create a flowchart or brochure guiding students to LRC or SDS based on their situation
Due Date: 1/25/2021
Assignee: Scott Noble
Created: 12/10/2020
Completed: --
Assignee: David, Mike
Created: 12/10/2020
Completed: 3/26/2021
LRC Committee to be included in new Student Government
Assignee: Mike
Created: 12/10/2020
Completed: --
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Develop a process for community members to advocate for campus improvements outside of leadership hierarchy
Due Date: 11/1/2021
Assignee: Sammy, Sheri, Tanvi
Created: 12/10/2020
Completed: --
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Student representatives meet with Executive Committee re: investment activism
Due Date: 9/15/2020
Assignee: Mike
Created: 11/10/2020
Completed: --
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Connect SVA Open Letter Cargo site to SVA MICA website
Due Date: 12/18/2020
Assignee: Sophie, Mike
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: 10/5/2020
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Research percentage of endowment in fossil fuels, real estate, weapons manufacturing, etc
Due Date: 1/1/2022
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Develop need based storage for international students
Due Date: 2/1/2022
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Develop & launch an "Open MICA" microsite highlighting community accessible resources (library, Open Studies, speakers, grants, etc)
Due Date: 10/1/2021
Assignee: Karol
Created: 12/17/2020
Completed: 12/17/2020
Assignee: Sammy, Sheri
Created: 11/20/2020
Completed: --
Assignee: Doug
Created: 10/5/2020
Completed: --
4/27 Update - Pending issue clarification from student members