SOM Leadership

All SOM Chairs complete 2-day Racial Equity (REI) training and their faculty complete 1hour Bias 101 training

100% of chairs and registered and over 50% of departments have completed training (don’t know the % of fac who completed training in each dept at this time)

Person/Dept Responsible: Dean’s Office

Finalize funding to support well-being representatives in the Basic Science and Clinical departments

Funding has been provided to support wellbeing representatives for each dept.

Person/Dept Responsible: Faculty Affairs

Include DEI in faculty and staff evaluations (i.e., person is able demonstrate what they have done annually to promote DEI)

Initial outreach to Harvey but Nate has not made progress in this area for staff. APT revision group included DEI in the faculty APT process that was approved.

Person/Dept Responsible: HR & OIE

Implement DEI Score Card to report DEI progress across departments and for the SOM

OIE Diversity Council researching different DEI scorecard models

Person/Dept Responsible: Diversity Council

Increase mental health services for Black students as well as students color (i.e., staff and student deductible)

Dr. Dent helped identify funding and worked with CAPS to subsidize high deductible cost and the creation of group therapy sessions for marginalized groups

Person/Dept Responsible: Student Affairs

Increase staff support in the Office of Student Enrichment and Equity (OSEE) to support student success

OIE is supporting OSEE with hiring an Assistant Director for Multicultural Affairs and Student Success

Person/Dept Responsible: OIE (VD & Director OSEE)

Discuss the implications MCAT has on admitting URM students and make adjustments

Initial outreach to Lisa but Nate has not made progress in this area for admission. We are planning to develop an Admission & DEI collaborative group similar to FALD.

Person/Dept Responsible: Admissions

Implement a Faculty First look to support Diversity Liaisons with developing relationships with potential URM faculty to increase diversity hires (including women in medicine and specifically the Basic Sciences)

Starting the Rising Star program where post docs are invited to the SOM to give job talks in the basic sciences.

Person/Dept Responsible: OIE (Director for Trainee & Faculty Initiatives)

Provide resources to help faculty, staff, trainees, and students, address individuals who make inappropriate comments (i.e. microaggressions, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc)

Started the new Respect All training to understand and address microaggressions.

Person/Dept Responsible: OIE

Establish a train the trainer program to increase the number of faculty, staff, trainees, and students who can receive DEI training annually 

Drs. Ashalla Freeman and Stephanie Brown are taking the lead on this project but have not started the process.

Person/Dept Responsible: OIE

MANDATORY annual racial bias/DEI training for all clinical, preclinical, instructors, faculty, trainees, and staff (including those at branch campuses)

Dr. Beat Steiner is having all clinical instructors complete the diversity certificate.

Person/Dept Responsible: Faculty Affairs, OIE & UNC Health DEI

Include DEI Awareness training (i.e., race/ethnicity, sexual orientation) during onboarding process

Initial outreach to Harvey but Nate has not made progress in this area for staff.

Person/Dept Responsible: HR & OIE

Enhance Mistreatment process where faculty, staff, trainees, and students can easily report Mistreatment (i.e., racism to microaggressions) to improve the working and learning environment (link to CPR2 initiative)

Further discussion is needed in this area to understand and address gaps

Person/Dept Responsible: OME

OIE update social media with resources (books, movies, websites, etc.) DEI website

OIE website linked to university anti-racism resources

Person/Dept Responsible: OIE

Task Force to integrate Social Justice into the curriculum with anti – racist components

Completed the process with OME and produce report and now expanding Task Force to GME, AH, and BBSP.

Person/Dept Responsible: OME & OIE

To strengthen URM student belonging at UNC SOM the Dean and/or Executive Dean will meet with URM students at least once a semester

The Dean and/or Executive Dean have started the process of meeting with URM students at least once in the fall and the spring.

Person/Dept Responsible: Dean’s Office