ODEI Report

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

2016

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2020

2021

2016

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Five-Year Strategic Plan
University of Michigan School of Dentistry (UMSD)
Dean Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD
Todd V. Ester, DDS and Tina L. Pryor, MSHRM
Presenters and Co-Chairs

MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS (MAC) IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE

The UMSD MAC/ MAC Implementation Committee was established and charged with the development of the campus Diversity Strategic Plan document for the UMSD and will address the recommendations from our 2014 Climate Study and the Strategic Plan People Domain.

CORE VALUES:

A ROAD WELL TRAVELED – DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

1

1973 -1996

Office of Minority Affairs established
Dr. Lee Jones, Director

2

1994-1995

Cultural Audit, Multicultural Affairs 
Committee (MAC)
3

1999 - 2006

Office of Multicultural Affairs
Dr. Todd V. Ester, Director
4

2006-2007

Cultural Audit
5

2007- 2013

Office of Multicultural Affairs & Recruitment Initiatives
Dr. Ken May, Director
6

2014

Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Dr. Todd V. Ester, Director, 2014
7

2014-2015

Climate Study

HISTORICAL COMMITMENT

For over a century, the University of Michigan School of Dentistry (UMSD) has been a ‘leader and best’ in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, including successful recruitment, matriculation and professional development activities.

> In 1890 graduated the first female African-American dentist in the United States of America, Dr. Ida Gray.
> UMSD has graduated more African-American dentists (400+) than any other U.S. dental school with the exception of those at the historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), Howard and Meharry.
> The school has also graduated 140 Latino dentists and 25 Native American dentists, including the first American Indian female dentist, Dr. Jessica Rickert, DDS 1975 (Potawatomi). Her graduation placed Dr. Rickert in history as the third American Indian dentist in the nation to come from a federally recognized tribe.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Increase Resources that Foster an Inclusive Environment (inclusion and equity):
R1. Implement cultural sensitivity training.
R2. Provide internal cultural sensitivity training.
Create Structures to Improve Communication across the School (inclusion):
R3. Create think tanks made up of students, faculty and staff.
R4. Create a clear, safe place to report incidents of micro-aggressions.
Increase Diversity (diversity):
R5. Increase diversity of staff, faculty and students.

DEVELOPING, ASSESSING, TRACKING

Cultural Competency training for students, staff and faculty
Growing and continuing a vibrant and dynamic MAC
Track the number of students, staff and faculty engaged in DEI efforts
Review and revise the Communication and Conflict Resolution Program Strategies
Regular meetings of the MAC Implementation Committee
Updates twice a year to the UMSD leadership team
Monthly updates to Associate Dean Murdoch-Kinch and Dean McCauley
Annual update to the UMSD Executive Committee
Annual update to UMSD community (faculty, staff, students) via town hall
Expand Profile for Success summer program and Pipeline building efforts

Team

UMSD DEI Planning Teams:
Multicultural Affairs Committee (MAC)
Strategic Planning Committee (People Domain)
Climate Study Steering Committee (CSSC)
Climate Study Advisory Committee (CSAC)
Climate Study Implementation Committee (CIC)


MAC IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE:
Todd V. Ester, DDS & Tina L. Pryor, MSHRM, Co-Chairs

Faculty/Administration:
Professor Martha Mccomas, Drs: Rogerio Castilho, Renee Duff, Elliott Hill, Marita Inglehart, Elisabeta Karl, Kyriaki Marti, Raymond Maturo, Kenneth May, Helena Ritchie, Henry Temple

Staff: Judy Craft, Bonnie Dawson, Mary Jo Gray, Cindi Hartman, Kim Huner, Gail Oljace, Brandonn Perry, Cheryl Quiney, Kimberly Smith, John Squires

Students:
Luke Aiura, Zahraa Allohaibi, Amir Aryaan, Assal Aslani, Wassim El Awadi, Dan Blair, Stephen Cheung, Vanessa Donastorg, Jae Young Han, Patrick Johnson, Milad Karim.
Peter Liang, Sara Safdari-Sadaloo, Ubonwan Sae-Ung, Alexandria Schulz, Rachael Vasquez,
Deangelo Webster, Emily Yanca, My Yang

2017

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Year One Highlights
University of Michigan School of Dentistry (UMSD)
Dean Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD
Todd V. Ester, DDS and Tina L. Pryor, MSHRM
Presenters and Co-Chairs

MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS (MAC) IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE

The UMSD MAC/ MAC Implementation Committee was established and charged with the development of the campus Diversity Strategic Plan document for the UMSD and will address the recommendations from our 2014 Climate Study and the Strategic Plan People Domain.

PUBLICATION

“Climate Study of the Learning Environment for Faculty, Staff, and Students at a U.S. Dental School: Foundation for Culture Change”.
Journal of Dental Education, 81.10 ( 2017): 1153-1163.

SOD OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

DIVERSITY IS IN OUR DNA

For over a century, the University of Michigan School of Dentistry (UMSD) has been a ‘leader and best’ in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, including successful recruitment, matriculation and professional development activities. 

  • In 1890 graduated the first female African-American dentist in the United States of America, Dr. Ida Gray.
  • The school has also graduated 140 Latino dentists and 25 Native American dentists, including the first American Indian female dentist, Dr. Jessica Rickert, DDS 1975 (Potawatomi).
  • UMSD has graduated more African-American dentists (400+) than any other U.S. dental school with the exception of those at the historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), Howard and Meharry.  
  • Building a Pipeline to Dentistry: Profile for Success is a successful 23 year summer program for disadvantaged students. Sixty percent (60%) of its 433 graduates are currently in dental school or dentists.

TEAM

Dean Laurie McCauley & Dental School Leadership

DEI ADVISORY TEAM
Todd Ester, DDS, MA, Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Tina Pryor, BBA, MSHRM, Director of Human Resources
Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch, DDS, PhD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Lynn Johnson, MA, PhD, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Institutional Effectiveness
Renee Duff, DDS, MS, Assistant Dean for Student Services
Michael Fox, Director of Budget and Financial Planning
Vidya Ramaswamy, PhD, Associate Director of Curriculum and Program Evaluation

OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Todd Ester, DDS, MA, Director
Ken May, DDS, MS, Associate Professor and Recruitment Officer
Dinella Crosby, MUP, Program Coordinator

DEI CO-LEADS
Todd Ester, DDS, MA, Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Tina Pryor, BBA, MSHRM, Director of Human Resources

UM School of Dentistry
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
Implementation Flow Chart

2018

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) 
University of Michigan School of Dentistry (UMSD)
Dean Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD
Todd V. Ester, DDS and Tina L. Pryor, MSHRM
Presenters and Co-Chairs

  • Diversity statement requested of all faculty search candidates. A template providing an overview of how a diversity statement should be constructed was developed. 
  • Career Chat for Staff and Faculty Annual Review (FAR) process developed to capture Dental School faculty and staff involvement in diversity, equity, and inclusion activities. Working with our Dean, Department Chairs, and Leadership Team our Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and our Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The Department Chairs and Executive Committee approved the DEI FAR template which is now a part of our annual faculty review process. Initial feedback is very positive from faculty.
  • Career Chats was developed and approved for our staff DEI annual review. Cultural intelligence and competence are essential to our unit as we seek to achieve a humanistic learning environment for all staff, faculty and students.

The faculty annual review and Career Chats are mechanisms that allow faculty and staff to communicate to their department chairs and administrators their work in research, teaching, service and administrative responsibilities as it relates to our DEI goals. We believe engagement in these training sessions, DEI-MAC activities, and workshops foster responsible growth and sustainability.


2019

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) 
University of Michigan School of Dentistry (UMSD)
Dean Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD
Todd V. Ester, DDS and Tina L. Pryor, MSHRM
Presenters and Co-Chairs

  • The 2019 American Dental Association GIES Award recognized the UMSD's history and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The 2019 U-M Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award to Dr. Marita Inglehart. 
  • Twenty-five (25) Years of PFS and increased fundraising for endowment-In 2019 the UMSD received its 25th cohort of our PFS program. This is a significant milestone in our program's history and further underscores the power of sustainability. For example, seven of our 2018 program participants are D1 students at UMSD.
  • Launched an inspirational student newsletter initiative called Buoy. This newsletter brings together the four constituent groups within our school-Dental Hygiene, Internationally Trained Dentists, DDS students and Graduate Students. The monthly newsletter highlights students from each group and shares unique inspirational stories from their dental and life journeys.
  • UBT 2.0 for Departments-An effort to bring together grad students, staff, faculty and researchers within our five academic and other departments. UBT 2.0 incorporates aspects of the previous Unconscious Bias Training sessions with a deeper dive into learning how unconscious bias may impact daily work environments and professional decision-making. UBT 2.0 can be beneficial to people who have or have not participated in previous UBT sessions. This effort gave us an opportunity to collaborative with Michigan Medicine facilitator, Dr. Denise Williams. The departments were brought together for a 3.5 hour session which included lunch, table hosts and engagement. Assigned seating required individuals to sit with colleagues with whom they may not have had much previous interaction. Departments designed their own session agenda with the assistance of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

2020

DEI Engagement - 2020 at a Glance
Pre COVID and Past COVID

Face to Face and In-Person Gatherin

Pre-COVID 

In-Person Events:

"The (Mis) Education of US-MLK Symposium and MILK Health Sciences Lecture Livestream Watch at UMSD"

103

 Attended the DEI Day and Ida Gray Award

125

Sexual Harassment and
Gender Misconduct Plenary

245

55
Getting to Know Education Brown Bags

60

Profile for Suecess 60
online application
process implemented

Learning and working remotely

Post-COVID 

 Honoring positive, resilent, inspirational, women in our lives

 " Health Providers Managing Stress in the New COVID World: Inclusive Excellence, Faculty: Dr. Larry Salzmann, Pediatric Dentistry Survive of Thrive? Can We Do Both?

 Celebrating our Diverse New Year's Food Traditions

 Honoring Those Who Served

 3 Issues of the Multicultural Mirror

 Three Race, Anti-Racism and Racial Healing Sessions

Safe Space Dialogue for students, staff and faculty

Students, staff and faculty attended the post-election session "Charting Our Path Forward To Respect In Our Community"

Twenty students participated in the 2020 Profile for Success virtual experiences

2021

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) 
University of Michigan School of Dentistry (UMSD)
Dean Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD
Todd V. Ester, DDS and Tina L. Pryor, MSHRM
Presenters and Co-Chairs

  • The DEI-MAC became intentional on "How to keep our Community Connected in this New Virtual World. We began our meetings with a personal and professional check-in "How are you and your family doing." We shared best practices and resources that could be helpful and shared key information from our leaderships messaging with each other. We found as a DEI-MAC team that the Zoom platform allowed a great level of engagement.
  • Profile for Success is has been one of our most successful recruitment and pipeline program for over 25 years. Our twenty-sixth cohort of PFS was a virtual program for twenty learners. The six week program was very successful and allowed for a great deal of engagement using our Zoom platform. We were able to provide the critical learning of the opportunities which are the Kaplan educational services for DAT preparation. academic and educational advising sessions, Peer, dental student and alumni mentorship programming, clinical foundations and dental anatomy instruction, admissions counseling and a mock interview patterned after our multiple mini interview formatting. One intentional planning objective this year was to connect our dental student mentors, alumni, faculty, staff with our PFS learner community virtually.

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