Scholarship, Service, and Education


Goal

UMB promotes and integrates equity, diversity, and inclusion in teaching, learning, scholarship, and service.

(UMB 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: Themes 2, 5, and 6)

Objective: Develop mandatory courses across the curriculum focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion ▾

Metrics

Increased student awareness of and ability to engage with people from backgrounds and identities different from their own (measured in experience survey)

Improved student experience as measured through experience survey reports of increased satisfaction and belonging and improved experiences of interpersonal behaviors, decreased occurrences of micro-aggressions and bias incidents, and increased reporting of core values demonstrated

Current Phase

Explore

Next Phase

Y2-5

Who is Responsible?

Provost, CEDIO/VP, AVP for Faculty Affairs, Faculty Task Force?

Objective: Review and revise course content across the curriculum to ensure the inclusion of equity, diversity, and inclusion principles ▾

Metrics

Percentage of curriculum reviewed and revised to ensure inclusion of equity, diversity, and inclusion principles

Reduced drop, fail, withdraw (DFW) rates overall

Current Phase

Implement, Explore

Next Phase

Y5+, Continuous

Who is Responsible?

AVP for Faculty Affairs, CEDIO/VP

Objective: Provide and promote programs and initiatives on inclusive education, pedagogy, and practice ▾

Metrics

Number and percentage of faculty participating in inclusive education, pedagogy, and practice development

Number of EDI programs and initiatives reviewed and revised

Reduced Drop, Fail Withdraw (DFW) rates overall

Current Phase

Explore

Next Phase

Y1, Y2-5

Who is Responsible?

Deans, Provost, AVP for Faculty Affairs, CEDIO/VP

Objective: Revise faculty workload and appointment, promotion, and tenure (APT) policies to reward scholarship, teaching, and service that integrate equity, diversity, and inclusion ▾

Metrics

Number and percentage of APT policies reviewed and revised in consideration and valuation of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion

Current Phase

Explore

Next Phase

Y2-5

Who is Responsible?

Provost, AVP for Faculty Affairs, CEDIO/VP, Faculty Senate

 

Objective: Implement and measure the impact of bias training for faculty promotion and tenure committees ▾

Metrics

Rates and speed of tenure and promotion of women, non-binary, URM, and minoritized faculty equal to those of men and non-URM faculty, with consideration for intersectional identities, reported by chairs of promotion and tenure committees and measured by EDI data dashboards

Pre- and post-surveys of participants in training indicating improvement in implicit bias awareness

Current Phase

Explore

Next Phase

Y2-5

Who is Responsible?

CEDIO/VP, Provost, Department Chairs, Faculty Senate