IDEA Newsletter -- October 2024 | 61传媒 in Claremont, California

October 10, 2024

IDEA Newsletter — October 2024

The 2024-2025 academic year was once again kicked off with the Community Lunch, an event that perfectly embodies our theme for the year: Belonging. This academic year marks a significant milestone鈥攖he 10th anniversary of the College鈥檚 IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Initiative. Over the past decade, IDEA has been instrumental in propelling the College towards the goal of fostering a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible community.

As we continue to build upon the foundation laid by IDEA, it’s crucial that we take a moment to reflect. How are we, as a community, nurturing the environment we aspire to create? What steps can we take to ensure every member feels a true sense of belonging? Let’s make this anniversary year a celebration of our progress and a renewed commitment to creating a campus where everyone truly belongs. For more information on the IDEA Initiative, visit our diversity page or read our 2023-2024 End of the Year Report.

Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (CIDE)

Under President Marcus-Newhall’s leadership, the Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (CIDE)聽is charged with proposing initiatives, policies, and practices that will enhance public dialogue on gender identity, ethnicity, religion, race, diversity, and other topics critical to the future of the College and facilitating campus conversations on race, equity, and inclusion. The focus for the 2024-2025 CIDE is 鈥淏别濒辞苍驳颈苍驳.鈥� Click the button below to learn more about CIDE and this year’s committee.

Spotlight

Please聽welcome the newest members of the Equity and Justice Team, Dr. C谩ndida Jaquez, Associate Dean of Faculty for Racial Equity, and Gretchen Maldonado, Director, Laspa Center for Leadership. Dr. Jaquez and Gretchen bring a collective three decades of institutional knowledge and support for students, faculty, and staff to the EJ team, and we are excited to see how they will support the EJ team in addressing equity and justice here at Scripps.

Updates

2023-2024 Student Racial Justice and Equity Fellows

The Racial Justice and Equity Fellowship Program provides grants for research, internships, and community-engagement projects designed to advance scholarship and explore topics relevant to the following: racial justice; inequality; equity; criminal justice reform; intersectional, interracial, and intraracial violence; community-engaged projects; and related areas.

2024-2025 Student Fellows聽

Lucy Waggoner-Wu ’25
Racial and Social Justice Oral History ProjectJane Lovette ’25
Educational Philosophy with Abolitionist Theory

Francesca Mills ’27
Rural Soil Sample Collection in Senegal

The 2024-2025 Racial Justice and Equity Faculty Fellowship application is currently open, and closes on October 25, 2024. Student applications will open in the Spring. Faculty who are interested in conducting research can apply .

Events

Fall Community Gatherings

The Equity and Justice Leadership Team partnered with Business Affairs on Monday, September 23rd to hold the first Community Gathering of the academic year, a聽space for faculty, staff, and students to connect and build community. Our next Community Gathering will be on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 with the Department聽of Natural Sciences, who will be sharing from their DEI Action Plan.聽If your office is interested in hosting a Community Gathering during the Spring, please email聽Dr. C谩ndida Jaquez.

2024 Student Leadership Institute Workshop

The Equity and Justice Leadership team partnered with the Laspa Center to share findings from the 2024 Student Belonging Survey with student leaders at the 2024 Student leadership Institute. During the workshop, students聽reviewed and analyzed data from the survey and developed聽a program or action in response to the survey data. In doing so,聽student leaders learned the importance of capturing and responding to student feedback. More information regarding the student belonging survey can be found in the 23-24 EOY Report.

A ConverAction on Voting

On聽September 26th, the Equity and Justice Leadership聽Team partnered with 61传媒Presents to co-host Voting: Empowered Voices and Rights, a non-partisan webinar聽discussion on the history, process, and impact/significance of voting in the United States. 61传媒professor, Dr. Vanessa Tyson; LA County Registrar Dean Logan; and Dr. Barbara Nicoll, President of the Mt. Baldy chapter of the League of Women Voters joined the community in a discussion co-moderated by SAS鈥檚 VP of Student Affairs聽Simran Sethi 鈥�26 补苍诲听Denise Nelson Nash 鈥�76, Vice President and Secretary to the Board of Trustees and Convener of the IDEA Initiative. You can watch a recording of the panel .

Final Thoughts

We would like to end our newsletter with a quote from environmental activist; author; and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology, Joanna Macy.

“By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout.”

— Joanna Macy

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