2. Departmental Contributions:
Our search, interview, and onboarding processes have been reviewed and updated by the Diversity and Inclusion Committee in conjunction with the Chair and the HR manager. We have increased the breadth of our searches by posting open positions with a multitude of sites that cater towards women, people of color, and other minorities/underrepresented groups in IT. We have not yet created a detailed Diversity checklist for search committees, however we have provided some insight as to how some interview questions could be considered culturally insensitive (“How do you handle workplace conflict” vs. “What values play into how you handle workplace conflict”) and have discussed including a rotating member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee on each Classified and Unclassified search.
4. Professional Development and Training:
Unfortunately, with the switch from Making Tracks to MyTracks Learning we have not been able to actually discuss what it would look like to require mandatory training on a more frequently occurring basis. We have created a section in our Confluence Policies and Info section that records which employees took the required trainings and when.