Coming Together for Racial Understand & DEI ECOP Action Teams Fellow: Rachel Wellborn, Mississippi State University Roadmap Fellow Report: Coming Together for Racial Understanding: Several accomplishments have taken place this quarter. (1) The three new states (South Dakota, Nebraska, West Virginia) are participating in monthly cohort calls to aid them in designing launch plans within their respective states. (2) A new training model was piloted which built on what state training teams have already taught potential training team members. The remaining materials were developed into online workshops. This model allows states that already have training teams to gear up new members more quickly than having to wait until another new cohort training is launched. (3) A tasting session was offered as a post-conference workshop at the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP). (4) Several issue briefs are being developed, converting learning from this work into easily digestible guidance for states engaged in dialogue efforts. The first in this series will be released in fall 2022. DEI Program Action Team: Through monthly meetings and work in between, the subgroups related to this effort continue to make progress. A summary of their progress includes: ● Metrics: The team has piloted and refined a survey that will begin to set a baseline understanding of the DEI climate in the LGU system. Working with both ECOP and ESCOP, a scan of university DEI contacts is almost complete. These contacts will be the recipient of the survey. ● Promising Programs: The team is seeking to define what "promising programs" means. The learning is that we as a system have not taken much time to define DEI expectations in programs. This deliberation is challenging, but important. This team met with the Resource Repository team (see below) during the last session to dovetail efforts where possible. ● Collaborations that work among 1862/1890/1994 – The scan through the system to identify DEI contacts at each LGU (noted above) sparked initial learning at how diverse positioning of this work is among the various universities. The subgroup has met with a team that has put together 1994/1862 collaboration responses that will be the topic of a post-conference FALCON session in October. https://landgrantpartnerships.org/ A conversation with 1890 leaders is being planned to determine how this work could best be expanded to include 1890/1862 collaborations. Additionally, some smallpockets of collaboration gathering efforts have been identified that can jump-start this work. TheSouthern Region Community Development Program Leaders have compiled examples, for instance. ● Community of Practice/Resource Repository - Extension has quite a few relevant
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