So You Want to Do a Climate Survey: Alternative Approaches and Ways to Leverage Existing Data and Enact Real Change

Breakout Option A
Day 2: November 15, 2022 | 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m., Varsity Hall

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Want to understand better the differences that members of your school or division experience, identify best practices, and make improvements? Think your only option is to deploy a unit-level climate survey? Think again! There are alternative approaches and ways to leverage existing data from already deployed campuswide climate surveys to accomplish this work. Learn how to review existing data, dig deeper to unearth inequities, communicate findings, and most importantly, take action to ensure necessary improvements are being made in this workshop.

Speakers

Susan Degrand

Susan Degrand (she/her) serves as the interim director for equity, inclusion and employee well-being in UW–Madison’s Office of Human Resources. She provides leadership, strategic vision and consultation for schools, colleges, divisions, and departments on campus as they work to support their employees through an equitable and human-centered lens. Degrand has worked in higher education for eleven years and has diverse experiences across campus supporting individual, programmatic and systems-level approaches to embedding and operationalizing equity, diversity and inclusion.

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Lisa Imhoff

Lisa Imhoff, M.S.S.W., L.C.S.W., serves as associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy. She has more than 15 years of experience in healthcare delivery and administration and more than six years of experience in higher education. With her educational background in systems theory and oppression and her lived and professional experiences, Imhoff has consistently and successfully applied theory into practice at both the individual and systems levels. A first-generation college graduate and daughter of a Vietnamese refugee, Imhoff finds fulfillment in creating educational and work environments that are welcoming, equitable and facilitate true belonging. She is a two-time alumna of UW–Madison, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and women’s studies and her Master of Science in Social Work.

 

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Sarah Korpi

Sarah Korpi, Ph.D., leads diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at UW–Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies. Dr. Korpi’s key responsibilities include Inclusivity Everyday programming, chairing the Equity and Diversity Committee, Divisional Climate Survey process and analysis, recruitment, onboarding, retention and development efforts, unit and programmatic review for DEI, training and learning opportunities for leadership & staff, and leading the creation of a culture that pursues social justice for all human beings.

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Lori Lopez

Lori Lopez, Ph.D., is a professor of communication arts and the director of the Asian American Studies Program at UW–Madison. Her research examines how minority groups use media in the fight for social justice, specifically focusing on the media of Asian Americans. Professor Lopez has published five books on race and media, including her most recent book, “Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora.” She is co-chair of the Campus Diversity and Climate Committee and co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the UW–Madison College of Letters & Science.

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Cori Splain

Cori Splain, Ed.M., is the director for strategic initiatives and chief of staff for the Division of Enrollment Management at UW–Madison. She serves as the chief advisor to the vice provost and acts as a key point of contact between university leadership and other stakeholders. She oversees and guides projects of high importance as well as leadership, strategic direction, and oversight for the communications, content management, internal engagement, and partnership development of the division.

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Michael States

Michael J. States, J.D., joined the Law School in December 2021 as the inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion. Before coming to UW Law, he was the assistant dean for admissions, financial aid, and diversity initiatives at The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Kansas and his law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law. Dr. States began his law school administration career as the associate director of admissions at the UIC John Marshall Law School. He has been the director of admissions at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, and the assistant dean for enrollment management at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart Graduate School of Business. From 2004 to 2015, he was the assistant dean for admissions and financial aid at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

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DeVon Wilson

DeVon Wilson, M.S.Ed., is the inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in the College of Letters & Science. Wilson works with the dean and the senior leadership team to advance the college’s inclusive excellence priorities. In addition to leading strategic diversity and inclusion efforts in the recruitment, retention and success of underrepresented faculty, staff and students, Wilson supports research and curriculum planning initiatives that advance the college’s goals for diversity, equity and inclusion. A first-generation college student, Wilson earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from Beloit College and worked there in admissions and student affairs, becoming assistant dean of students after earning his master’s degree in education from Northern Illinois University. Wilson has advanced diversity, equity and inclusion on a national level, including serving as an executive coach for chief diversity officers at selected public and private universities through the Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation (CSDLSI) in Atlanta, GA.

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