Initiatives

1. Build community to reduce stress and isolation

• Workshops and networking to support collaboration
• Develop emotional intelligence and supportive communities
• Grant writing mini-retreat for STEM faculty
• Small group theory (i.e., triads)

2. Support and promote sustainable cultural change

• UCSD Faculty Equity Advisors and SDSU Professors of Equity meetings on topics of shared concern
• Challenges and institutional responses to academic care-givers in the Covid era
• Ally engagement / triads

3. Support and highlight innovative policies

• Collaborative conversations on hiring practices that support an inclusive climate and culture
• Broader UC/CSU dissemination
• Model sustainable change for institutions across California and the nation