DFA Inclusive Excellence

DEIB Advancement Committee Charge

The DEIB Advancement Committee is an advisory body to the DFA senior leadership team (SLT), responsible for coordinating and assisting DFA teams in doing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging work more effectively. The DEIB Advancement Committee will: 

• Help project implementation teams and DFA leaders solve problems in the division related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging matters;
• Recommend prioritization of actions in the DEIB Action Plan to the SLT as part of its regular strategic planning process;
• Generate ideas that continue to advance future and ongoing DEIB actions in the division.
• Reinforce the need for development of communication plans that keeps DFA employees and the OSU community up to date with progress on the action plan, includes regular stakeholder outreach and engagement points (such as listening sessions), and motivates DFA employees to get involved in the efforts; and execute such a plan on behalf of the advancement committee.
• Provide a systems approach and guidance to ensure connections, dependencies and overlaps across projects and efforts are identified and communicated with the SLT.
• Assisting implementation teams with establishing project outcomes that align with DFA guiding principles, the DEIB action plan and OSU’s Inclusive Excellence priorities;
• Coordinating the progress of implementation teams with the SLT;
• Offering consultation with implementation teams on data analysis and metrics development as it relates to diversity, equity and inclusion;
• Reporting on overall DEIB action plan progress across implementation teams to the SLT.

The DEIB Advancement Committee will meet regularly, share meeting summaries via a public website and present an annual progress report to the senior leadership team. The VPFA Office provides a small budget to allow for some in-person meetings and stakeholder engagements, as needed, with prior approval.

Interactions with DEIB Action Plan project implementation teams

DFA senior leaders sponsor specific DEIB Action Plan projects and determine with project teams the specific approach to implementing the recommended actions, including collecting, analyzing and incorporating stakeholder input, establishing metrics and formulating a communication plan.

The DEIB Advancement Committee provides consultation and support to DFA leaders and implementation project teams, based on a work plan determined in advance with the SLT. Implementation teams will seek guidance, share status updates and seek input on metrics development from the DEIB Advancement Committee. Interactions between the groups will include:

• Consultation when developing project outcomes and metrics related to DEIB actions;
• Quarterly updates about project status and metrics to the advancement committee from project teams, in writing or during committee meetings. 
• Advancement committee will share with DFA leaders lists of volunteers interested in serving on implementation teams.