Faculty Diversity Committee

Mission

The CLA Faculty Diversity Committee is a standing committee focused on diversity efforts and initiatives in the college. Serving as an advisory body to the Dean, the committee will develop diversity related goals, strategies for achieving those goals, and methods for measuring progress. Specifically, the committee has the following initial goals:

1. Work to attract, cultivate, and nurture individuals who are invested in devoting critical and scholarly attention to different identities and communities specific to their disciplines;
2. Offer more college-supported opportunities for diversity-related education, training, and recognition;
3. Provide more explicit institutionalized value for a variety of diversity-related efforts and knowledge.

Membership

The CLA Faculty Diversity Committee will consist of approximately 10-12 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty. Members will serve two-year terms with options to renew each fall quarter. Nominations for new members will be solicited from existing committee members and other faculty who are leaders in areas of diversity. Nominees will then be recommended to the Dean. The committee will be co-chaired by the Associate Dean of Diversity and Curriculum, and a faculty member elected by the committee.

Member		Department	Contact
	Megan Lambertz-Berndt	Associate Professor, Communications Studies	lambertz@calpoly.edu
	Grace Yeh	Professor, Ethnic Studies	gyeh@calpoly.edu
	ReggieAllen	Associate Professor, English	rlallen@calpoly.edu
	Maya Hislop	Assistant Professor, English	mshislop@calpoly.edu
	JP Paniagua	Assistant Professor, History	jpp@calpoly.edu
	Thanayi Jackson	Associate Professor, History	tjacks25@calpoly.edu
	Yan Shan	Assistant Professor, Journalism	yashan@calpoly.edu
	Lucy Bencharit	Assistant Professor, Psychology and Child Development	ybenchar@calpoly.edu
	Jay Bettergarcia	Associate Professor, Psychology and Child Development	jbetterg@calpoly.edu
	Susana A. López	Assistant Professor, Psychology and Child Development	slopeza@calpoly.edu
	Jess Lee	Assistant Professor, Social Sciences	jlee938@calpoly.edu
	Martha Galvan-Mandujano	Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures	mgalvanm@calpoly.edu
	Silvia Marijuan	Professor, World Languages and Cultures	smarijua@calpoly.edu
	Elizabeth Folk	Associate Professor, Art and Design	efolk@calpoly.edu
	Julie Bettergarcia	Associate Dean, CLA Dean's Office	jgarci31@calpoly.edu