IPM Education and Training for Pest Management Practitioners

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CLA Equity Task Force Faculty Workload Group Facilitators: Araceli Esparza and Yuping Mao Workgroup Members: Lily House-Peters, Katherine McLoone, and Samiha Rahman Consultation: CLA Strategic Plan Implementation Support Team, CLA Equity Task Force, Faculty Council Subcommittees (CLASP Liaison Subcommittee, 6-unit RSCA Subcommittee), Dean Thien

CLA Strategic Plan to Achieve Greater Equity: 2022-23 to 2024-25 GOAL: Achieve greater equity across the College of Liberal Arts. STRATEGY 1: Position the Liberal Arts as central to a quality education. STRATEGY 2: Create an inclusive campus climate that values differences and well-being. STRATEGY 3: Build and develop an institutional structure that equitably compensates, promotes, invests in, supports, and centers diverse staff s and faculty's labor, service, and expertise. STRATEGY 4: Establish an equitable, sustainable, transparent, and highly functional resource infrastructure that encourages alternative forms of organizing.

Definition of Equity (CLA Strategic Plan, p. 15) Equity is both a principle and a practice of fairness and justice that seeks to achieve well-being for individuals and groups that have experienced historical barriers and continue to face systemic obstacles today. As a principle of fairness and justice, equity applies to: 1. Outcomes: Achieving tangible results for marginalized individuals and groups. 2. Process: Including different groups in the process, especially those who have been marginalized; centering the issues of marginalized individuals and groups throughout the process; recognizing the historical barriers and current systemic challenges that undermine their well-being; providing safe conditions for creative dialogue; and ensuring transparency with information and decision-making; among other conditions. As a practice of fairness and justice, equity entails concrete actions that: 1. Provide material support that enable marginalized individuals and groups to participate in a process to name historical barriers and current obstacles affecting them and to recommend solutions; 2. Prevent and/or remove these barriers and obstacles; 3. Commit resources for programmatic initiatives that generate changes in organizational culture and systems to improve outcomes for marginalized individuals and groups; and, 4. Guard against institutional interests and discourses that co-opt equity without advancing tangible institutional change that enhances the status and well-being of marginalized individuals and groups.

Build and develop an institutional structure that equitably compensates, promotes, invests in, supports, and centers diverse staff s and faculty's labor, service, and expertise. 2022-2023 Work Lecturer Service and Research Survey RSCA Policy and RSCA Application Revisions Research on how other CSU campuses have established a 3/3 or 4/4 teaching load for tenure- line and lecturer faculty, respectively. We hope to continue this and related work into the future. STRATEGIC PLAN STRATEGY 3

Today we ask Faculty Council to consider and discuss our recommendations. This is considered the first reading of these recommendations. Pending revisions, at the next scheduled FC meeting we we would like to call for a move to approve our recommendations. We will take any recommendations we get today back to our team and schedule a second reading of our recommendations. First, we will present our recommendations and then will take questions and feedback. Process

Revisions are focused on increasing equity within RSCA AT Application criteria: Anticipated outcomes, goals, and impact of the activity description has been revised in order to expand the types of projects that are fundable. Current language does not account for community engaged-research, editorial work, or creative activities. Faculty History criteria has been revised to allow applicants to explain gaps in RSCA outcomes. Our goal is to ensure that those who have not had access to resources or have had unique life circumstances are not disadvantaged in the application process. We have also edited language for clarity and consistency. For example, we have replaced scholarship with scholarly when writing Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities, among other editorial changes. Revision Recommendations: RSCA Assigned Time (AT) Application and Criteria

Current Text: Proposed Revisions: TEXT OF PROPOSAL: Describe the proposed research, scholarship, or creative activity. The text of the proposal must be prepared using 12 point type and 1 inch margins and may not exceed 1200 words (begin text of proposal on the following page). IMPORTANT: Please use the headings below in organizing your proposal content, clearly identifying work that is peer-reviewed. The weighting of each category in the evaluation process is indicated in the right-hand column. TEXT OF PROPOSAL: Describe the proposed research, scholarly, or creative activity. The text of the proposal must be prepared using 12-point type and 1- inch margins and may not exceed 1200 words (begin text of proposal on the following page). The main body of the application should not include a bibliographic reference section or footnotes; in-text citations are allowed. Embedded images are acceptable, but they should not contain large sections of prose written as part of the application. Proposals should be clear and accessible to reviewers from disciplines across CLA. Clearly identify work that is peer-reviewed, scholarship of engagement, and/or creative activity in your proposal and faculty history. The main body of the application should not include a bibliographic reference section or footnotes; in text citations are allowed. Embedded images are acceptable, but they should not contain large sections of prose written as part of the application. Care should be taken to make both the Description/Background and Significance sections intelligible to faculty members outside the discipline; this criterion will be applied to the evaluation by the CLA RSCA committee. IMPORTANT: Please use the rubric headings below in organizing your proposal content. The weighting of each category in the evaluation process is indicated in the right-hand column.

Current Text: Proposed Revisions: Description, background and significance of the research, scholarship, or creative activity. Locate project relative to the discipline/creative domain. Summarize previous work on the topic and indicate the nature of its contribution to previous work in the field. Indicate whether the project breaks new ground or is part of continuing activity. Include purpose and hypotheses if appropriate. Description, background, and significance of the proposed research, scholarly, or creative activity. Locate project relative to pertinent disciplinary, community, and/or creative domains. Summarize previous work on the topic and indicate the nature of its contribution to previous work in the area of scholarship, practice, or creative activities. Indicate whether the proposed work breaks new ground or is part of a larger project or continuing activity. Include purpose and hypotheses, if appropriate.

Current text: Proposed Revisions: Research design, methodology, or kind of creative activity to be undertaken. Specify the project tasks and activities that will be completed during the semester in which RSCA will be taken and clearly indicate, in the case of collaborations, what your contribution will be. Project design, methodology, or type of creative activity to be undertaken. Specify the activities that will be completed during the semester in which RSCA assigned time will be taken and include a timeline of activities. Include a detailed project design, methodology, or plan for proposed creative activity. Clearly indicate, in the case of collaborations, what your anticipated contribution will be in concrete terms.

Current Text: Proposed Revisions: Anticipated outcomes and goals of the activity. Outcomes include papers, presentations, publications, performances, and persuasive proposals to external agencies, etc. Goals include ongoing implications of this line of activity. Anticipated outcomes, goals, and impact of the activity. Outcomes may include journal articles, scholarly book chapters, presentations, publication of creative writing, performances, persuasive proposals to external agencies, among other research, scholarly, and creative activities. Outcomes may also include collaborations and partnerships with communities outside the university that result in non-traditional scholarly or creative products, including exhibits, digital tools (e.g., websites or other digital media), reports and documentation of community-based research, governmental and nonprofit reports, policy development and legislation, community-based assessment and evaluation, among other forms of applied and action research. Assigned time is also available for editing a peer-reviewed collection or a special issue of an academic journal. Goals can also include the ongoing implications of this line of activity.

Current Text: Proposed Revisions: FACULTY HISTORY OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS FACULTY HISTORY OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS (the academic year in which the proposal is submitted including forthcoming work in that year and the prior four academic years): Next, on no more than three separate pages (1 inch margins, Times New Roman 12 pt.), provide complete citations of scholarly and creative activity and funded grants for the past five years only. Separate headings should be provided to separate peer- reviewed/referred publications/presentations from other publications/presentations. Co-authors must be acknowledged. List all current and pending internal and external support for your scholarship. On no more than three separate pages (1-inch margins, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font), provide complete citations of research, scholarly and creative activity and funded grants for the past five years only. This includes the academic year in which the proposal is submitted, forthcoming work in that year, and the prior four academic years. Separate headings should be provided for peer-reviewed publications, community engaged research, creative activities, presentations, and other possible forms of scholarly activity. Co-authors must be acknowledged. List all current and pending internal and external support for your scholarship. Previous RSCA awards and their outcomes during the 5-year period must also be listed. This portion of the Faculty History does not count against the 3-page limit and may be documented on an additional (4th) page. Previous RSCA awards and their outcomes during the 5-year period must also be listed. This portion of the Faculty History does not count against the 3-page limit and may be documented on an additional (4th) page. If you have received a Research, Scholarly, or Creative Activity Award or a Faculty Small Grant in the past five years, please state the type of award(s), title of project(s), and the semester/session(s) awarded. Describe the outcomes (i.e., papers submitted or published, exhibits, reports, etc.) for each award. If relevant, faculty may voluntarily include a 1-2 sentence statement that addresses gaps in research, scholarly, and creative activity in their faculty history, including, for example, leaves of absence, major administrative roles, significant life events, and changing publishing timelines, among other relevant factors. If provided, information should be used by RSCA Committee members to contextualize perceived breaks in research. RSCA Committee members should also consider how lack of research support impacts faculty history in order to ensure equitable outcomes for those with access to fewer resources. If you have received a Research, Scholarly or Creative Activity Award or a Faculty Small Grant in the past five years, please state the type of award(s), title of project(s), and the semester/session(s) awarded. Describe the outcomes, i.e., papers submitted, published, etc., for each award.

Revisions are focused on increasing equity within the CLA RSCA Policy: We have revised the RSCA policy to align with the recommended RSCA Application and Criteria revisions. We revised language to acknowledge and make clear that community engaged- research is valued as a type of research and scholarly activity. We added language that addresses how gaps in research should be evaluated in order to avoid disadvantaging faculty. We revised language for clarity, consistency, and gender neutrality. For example, we replaced scholarship with scholarly when writing Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities throughout and replaced his/her with their. Revision Recommendations: RSCA Policy

RSCA Policy Recommendations 1.3.5 Members of the RSCA committee or MGSS sub- committee may not sit on the panel that reviews any applications from a co-author, spouse, domestic partner, child, or relative, or significant other of the committee member. 2.1.2 CLA tenure track faculty may apply for MGSS or RSCA awards for years after the expiration of their new faculty reassigned time (RSCA specific). We encourage the FC RSCA subcommittee to research the accuracy of this policy. We believe new faculty w/reassigned time are eligible to apply for MGSS, but not RSCA AT.

RSCA Policy Recommendations (cont.) 3.2 Activities Supported 3.2.1 The following activities are eligible for all RSCA/MGSS Awards: 3.2.1.1 Basic Scholarly and peer- reviewed research 3.2.1.2 Community engaged and applied research 3.2.1.3 Creative activities 3.4.1 The Academic Senate policy states: Mini- Grants provide the faculty with funds for student assistance, bibliographic research, travel, supplies, minor equipment, and computer time to test promising ideas and obtain preliminary results leading to the application for external support. Note that computer time is both unclear and dated. We realize the CLA policy cites the Academic Senate policy here, but clarification is needed.

RSCA Policy Recommendations (cont.) 4.1.4 Extent to which the project will promote the faculty member s scholarly, community engaged and applied research, or creative activities, development, direction, or and purpose; 4.0 Evaluation Criteria 4.1 In establishing its rankings, the RSCA Awards committee will take into account the merit of the proposed work, the applicant s track record/productivity as the result of prior awards, how lack of research support impacts faculty history in order to ensure equitable outcomes for those with access to fewer resources, and the resources the applicant has and will have to accomplish their her/his scholarly and creative work. Awards shall be based primarily on the quality of the proposed research or creative activity as manifested in the proposal. Proposals should be clear and accessible are expected to be clear to reviewers outside the applicant s discipline.

RSCA Policy Recommendations (cont.) 4.1.5 Probability that the project will lead to peer- reviewed publication, collaborations and partnerships with communities outside the university that result in non-traditional scholarly or creative products, exhibitsions, governmental and nonprofit reports, or external grant proposals, among other scholarly and creative outcomes; and 4.1.6 Extent to which the project benefits the university mission. Note that the university s mission statement clearly identifies "action" to benefit the people of California as part of its mission, in addition to research, which supports our call to fund community engaged and applied research: https://www.csulb.edu/about- csulb/our-mission-vision-values

RSCA Policy Recommendations (cont.) 5.3.1 The final decision on reassigned time awards shall rest with the Dean of CLA. Normally, the Dean's decisions will follow the RSCA committee s rankings. The Dean will report to the RSCA committee any change, and, at his or her their discretion, a rationale Note that item 4.2.3 on submission process is outdated since applicants now submit applications electronically. 4.2.4 is unclear. What exactly does it ask applicants to do? Reports of Work Accomplished for previous RSCA awards should not be forwarded with the Application, but summarized in the application. Send Reports of Work Accomplished directly to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.