Promising Practices Catalog
For each of theTask Force's Four Goals and Four Tools, we have gathered examples of promising practices from across the University. Options to develop a user-friendly online database for the Promising Practices Catalog are currently being considered. In the meantime, an online read-only spreadsheet of promising practices can be found here.
The teaser of the promising practices catalog included in the online version of the Task Force report is recreated below.
Click here for a spreadsheet of Promising Practices
HKS Class Discussion Software
HKS is prototyping cloud-based softwarethat tracks how frequently — or infrequently — students join class discussions.The software can produce charts that showstudents’ gender and nationality, ranking them by those who have participated least.This system...
CHAN Schoolwide Climate Survey
In 2016 the Chan School completed aSchoolwide climate survey that examinedinclusion and belonging for all constituents. The survey data were collected and analyzed by an outside agency (the Culturally Engaging Campus EnvironmentsProject) and are available...
RIAS Responsibility and Resources
Over the past several years Radcliffe hasworked proactively to ensure that all staffwith formal responsibility have the autonomy, staff, and fiscal resources to achievethe diversity and inclusion goals set in theirstrategic plans. While the positions...
CHAN Associate Dean for Diversity
The associate dean for diversity is formallyresponsible for all aspects of strategy relatedto diversity, inclusion, and belonging. In addition, the senior director of human resources, associate dean for faculty affairs,and associate dean for student...
College Diversity Report
Senior leaders are held accountable to ensure that the areas they oversee achieve the diversity, inclusion, and belonging goalsas defined — and included in this are strategic planning efforts such as multiyearplanning to create and populate pipelines.An...
GSE OneCEPR
The Center for Education Policy Research(CEPR) successfully created OneCEPR, aspace where information related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is shared,and began making more connectionsbetween DEI and CEPR’s work. This was prompted after CEPR’s...
HKS Visual Design Consultant
HKS has hired a consultant to help developa visual design that will pull together the old and new buildings on its campus. Afterthat design has been set, the School will examine the use of spaces to enhancediversity, inclusion, and belonging. Takeaway...
HSDM Alumni of Color Portraits
In conjunction with the 150th anniversary celebration and the launch of theFreeman, Grant, and Franklin Scholarship (named for key African-American alumni), the Office of Diversity andInclusion and the Office of Developmentand Alumni Relations are working...
HDS Vital Conversations
The Divinity School introduced a daylongconversation and presentation series duringincoming student orientation titled Vital Conversations, which focused on addressing racism and sexual and gender-based violence, and offered a continued series of...
HLS Faculty Teaching Workshops
Each summer two or three of the faculty workshops focus on teaching, includingtopics such as gender and race in the classroom; experiential learning; and learning outcomes and assessments. These are workshops in which faculty share bestpractices for...
GSD Joint Faculty-Staff Meeting
A joint faculty-staff meeting at thestart of each academic year promotes asense of shared vision in which the dean, faculty, and administrative leadershiplay out selected accomplishments andgoals. Human Resources (HR) provides staff and faculty...
FAS Tenure-Track Faculty Mentoring
The dean of FAS made mentoring oftenure-track faculty a central topic at his fall2015 retreat for the FAS academic deans. Together, the deans reviewed the principles underlying the FAS’s AY 2009‒10approach to mentoring and professional development...
GSAS “Dual Citizens”
Because GSAS students may have “dual citizenship” in other Schools, there are alsocollaborative efforts with offices in these Schools. For example, GSAS has collaborated with colleagues in the Chan School of Public Health,Harvard Business School, and the...
DCE Courses on Diversity
While it’s difficult to know which courses explicitly incorporate content related toinclusion and belonging into the curriculum, ongoing efforts have been made to increase the number of courses that address related topics, such as race, sexuality,gender...
SEAS Funds for Staff Professional Development
SEAS encourages staff to utilize training sessions and professional developmentconference funds to develop and/orimprove skills used in their daily roles,or to develop a deeper knowledge in new areas of interest to their overall career paths. The FAS and...