As part of the campus-wide Community, Diversity
and Social Justice (CDSJ) effort, the Administration and Finance
CDSJ executive area team coordinated a survey of everyone working
in A&F between March and October. The survey was developed
to determine the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of A&F
employees with regard to CDSJ. The team also used these meetings
to ask employees if they would volunteer to participate in focus
groups. The team hoped this effort would result in a high rate
of response to the survey. The response rate far exceeded our
expectation, an astounding 70 percent.
All of the following A&F departments are to be commended for
the time and effort they put towards this very important information
gathering phase of the CDSJ survey process: Auxiliary Services,
Budget Office, Bursar's Office, Campus Services, Controller's
Office, Environmental Health & Safety, Facilities Planning,
Financial & Cost Analysis, Human Resources, Office of the
Vice Chancellor, Physical Plant, Procurement and the UCard Office.
Scheduling sessions required a huge effort. The team had to work
around the varying schedules of the diverse services provided
by the A&F employees ranging from serving meals to the students,
maintaining the campus, implementing the PeopleSoft program, managing
the personnel functions to building new facilities, managing the
budget, procurement and managing the parking operations. Thank
you to all of the directors, managers, and staff for working so
well with us.
The logistics of having to set up manageable meetings for about
1,200 people was, at first, daunting. Though after the first few
presentations, the team found that the, A&F employees took
this matter seriously and worked hard on the surveys. With each
succeeding meeting, team members would come back with stories
about the cooperation they received and the requests to give back
information learned from the survey.
The surveys have been completed and the results are being compiled
by Student Assessment Research and Evaluation (SAREO). The A&F
CDSJ team will work on analyzing the data from the survey and
plans to give the information that is generated back to the members
of A&F in the late spring. The team will be working within
A&F to build on the strengths that emerge from the survey,
and will be working to facilitate changes within units to make
A&F a more welcoming place to work. Thank you to all employees
in Administration & Finance departments. Congratulations for
a job well done.
LINDA MARCHESANI
CDSJ team liaison,
on behalf of the A&F CDSJ team
