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Our initiatives

The ITLC Diversity & Inclusion Action Team is actively working on the initiatives outlined below. We have prioritized these initiatives because they speak to the experiences of our current team members and the IU IT community at large. Our hope is that by working with others around IU to follow through with these initiatives, we will create sustainable, positive change for our community members.

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Current initiatives

Diversity in hiring by sharing job postings to diverse groups

Initiative current members

Lead: Amy Starzynski Coddens

Volunteers: Jeannette Lehr, Morgan Bell, Jake George

Initiative description

This initiative aspires to make Indiana University’s IT workforce more inclusive, diverse, and welcoming to all people by connecting with community organization to share out IU IT job postings with their members. These organizations have the flexibility of sharing these job postings however they see fit: via email with their community, in a community newsletter, via printout on a posting board, etc.

Initiative's ultimate goal

Ideally, if enough organizations share these job postings with their diverse and varied communities, we will eventually start to see a more diverse workforce in IU’s IT areas. We are starting locally, but in the future, we plan to expand the reach of this initiative across the state and the nation, with the hopes of bringing in folks from all over to work at a more welcoming and inclusive IU IT workforce.

Challenges faced by internationals at IU

Initiative current members

Co-Chairs: Melanie Ebdon, Megha Ramawat

Volunteers: Ninad Bandodkar, Madeleine Gonin, Karim Tbatou, Anna Hungerfield Greene

Initiative description

International students and employees in the IU community face many unique challenges, from navigating policies and procedures that their management may struggle to understand, to enduring career suppression because of fear that they may not remain with the university. We plan to work with the IU community to identify these challenges and to make recommendations for improvements in the international staff experience and career paths, to create training material for supervisors, and to provide resources to support international staff and their supervisors.

Initiative's ultimate goal

We hope that by identifying challenges and writing up recommendations to address these challenges, this initiative will ultimately preserve, grow, and protect the international community presence in IT at IU.