Access, Engagement, and Success Committee

Mandate from Policy B02.0 (Charter of Academic Governance)

Charges for AY 2025

New Charges

1. Establish resources for faculty to engage which fosters best practices regarding content and activities in the classroom.

2. Continue to work through AdvanceRIT to support initiatives to address opportunities for improvement identified in the COACHE data.

3. Explore the possibility of ensuring all academic units attend to AES-related activities in the annual performance review process, potentially modeling it after the HR policy in place for staff appraisals.

4. Identity and assess opportunities to preserve the core institutional values, practices, pathways, and structures in place to help ensure access, respect, and dignity for every member of our community while mitigating risk to theuniversity as we adapt to changes in social and economic conditions.

5. Investigate whether a policy that Deaf Culture training should only be led by Deaf facilitators is appropriate.  Propose ways to implement such a policy, if it is advisable.

6. Follow up on Gender Equity in Teaching load undertaken by Advance RIT, including course distributions for grad/undergrad courses. See if improvements have been made, and assess the current state of affairs. 

Access, Engagement, and Success Committee reports can be found on RIT’s Repository

Recent reports can also be found on the Faculty Senate Google Drive