The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Population Health (COPH) will:
Create realistic goals and outcomes reflective of the need for action balanced against the resources and decision-making authority of the Committee that include long-and short-term strategies because organizational change takes time.
Status: COPH will issue a series of short reports by May that indicate what is known, gaps in knowledge, and next steps short and long term.
Use existing resources including traditional data, lived experiences, informed citizens, and community-based knowledge to inform goals and be realistic with resources needed to achieve stated goals.
Status: COPH Convenings are centering co-learning that involves input from both UNM and COPH sources of knowledge, governmental and non-governmental units and informed citizens, community groups and leaders.
Status: COPH has been careful to create events and activities that require minimal resources. Minimal fund-raising activities through sponsorship of the Convenings is being pursued.
Create a communication plan so people know what we are doing.
Status: We are working with the COPH Marketing/PR Office to construct a website that is representative of COPH activities.
Build strategic collaborations with groups and individuals inside and outside COPH that can help further our goals.
Status: COPH is working to construct a website that is representative of our activities.
Status: Build strategic collaborations with groups and individuals inside and outside COPH that can help further our goals.
Develop an understanding of the status of inclusive excellence for staff, faculty, and students within COPH.
Status: Starting in September 2023, virtual discussions of 60 minutes were held with UNM officials from the main campus and Health Sciences.. Further, to gain an understanding of student issues a student subcommittee was established, and the COPH Education leadership team met with the committee to explain student demographics, admissions, recruitment, retention and graduation rates. The Committee also began to consider COPH course content and cultural representation. Further, we established a staff subcommittee to ensure that there was a mechanism by which staff could convene and advance issues to the full committee for examination. Additionally, the Committee worked with the Health Sciences Center leadership to implement an analysis of the hiring process using one example as a case study to examine the success of inclusive hiring practices. Throughout the period from September to December 2023, COPH worked on metrics to be incorporated into the faculty annual evaluation.
Status: We are considering processes and practices that increase inclusive excellence for students, staff and faculty by creating a hoc student and staff subcommittees, considering how to assess staff and faculty relations, and working with the Health Sciences Center to consider how to build inclusive hiring practices by featuring scholars, case studies, and workshops.
Assess progress to determine how we will measure efforts by the committee.
Status: Develop additional goals around students, staff, and faculty. Focus on satisfaction (climate), recruitment (everyone), admissions (students), retention and graduation/promotion (students and faculty).
Status: Produce a checklist of what we set out to do and determine if those goals and activities were met and implemented.
