PACT meeting – 2022 – 02 – 25
Meeting Agenda
Old Business
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- Rug and table for the lounge (Natalie can’t attend but this is what she is proposing)
- TODO [Lynne]: purchase these directly rather than reimbursement.
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- Check in again on this funding
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Rug ($209)
Table ($479)
- Table is fireproof
Couch – All furniture must be fireproof (pillows and rug are an exception)
- New couch that is fire retardant is $1500+, thoughts?
New Business
- New DEI, Shakima (Sharon & Liam)
- Meeting with Shakima M. Clency- Assistant Dean of Inclusion and Belonging
- Understaffed, trying to understand the community while implementing DEI efforts
- “In the Loop” is not catered to PhD students right now
- Next steps:brown bag/intro(ask about how Shakima is part of the faculty hiring process?)
- Sexual Assault & Harassment Resources for Cornell Tech (Marianne)
- https://studentservices.tech.cornell.edu/health-wellness/cornell-university-services-2/
- Finding resources that are NYC-based
- Dearth of resources & presenting the resources
- Talking through and evaluating resources → need to be educated on Cornell Tech resources
- Releasing statistics on sexual assualt – clery reporting
- Should break this out by campus, as this is required
- What is Daniel’s background/education? Comms degree
- Hiring (Dan/Emily)
- We are trying really, really hard to have us involved in hiring!
- IS department only department that has PhD students give feedback
- ISGSA is also getting feedback vs. Cornell tech getting faculty feedback
- This only affects IS Tech candidates
- One possibility: ISGSA survey – all tech gets this one survey
- Current ISGSA survey does not ask: potential impact and doesn’t ask for diversity, inclusion, belonging
- 3 diff feedback forms: from Katherine, ISGSA, Tech
Next steps: want DEI questions for ideally both Ithaca & Tech; if not, then just Tech; possible option: one survey & option to pick tech or ithaca campus and add logic; adding a PACT role/task to anonymize feedback; having Katherine not email PhD students w/ form
