What are the ICI Campus Communities Breakfasts?
ICI Campus Community breakfasts (previously lunches) are offered once a month in the Brody large private dining room. Spaces are limited to 50 staff, faculty, academic specialists and administrators on a first come first serve basis.
The purpose of these breakfasts is to increase communications, promote collaboration, share updates with DEI projects, provide resources, ask questions, offer solutions and spotlight a campus DEI partner(s). As DEI practitioners, finding opportunities to convene in a supportive space is necessary and important. This is also an opportunity to learn about DEI efforts at MSU.
2023-24 Presenter Schedule
November: Henry Mochida, DEI communications manager, University Communications and Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, “DEI communications, shifting the narrative @MSU.”
February: Daniel Launstein, AIA LEED AP, lead architect, Planning Design and Construction, “Universal Design,” and Tracy A. Leahy ADA/Section 504 coordinator, Office for Civil Rights & Title IX Education and Compliance, “Accessibility and Advocating for Disability Needs.”
March: Patty J. J. Oehmke, Ph.D., “Recreational Sports and Fitness Services-Providing Equitable Access to Student Wellbeing,” and Swapna Hingwe, D.O., M.A., “Strategies for Advancing Mental Equity.”
April: Kristine Bowman, Ph.D., J.D., Professor, College of Education & College of Law, Associate Dean, College of Education, “Free Speech on Campus 101.”
2022-23 Presenter Schedule
September: MSU DEI Strategic Plan Update, Terry Frazier, PhD
October: Mina Shin, PhD – Updates on the mandatory DEI online training known as DEI Foundations. Eduardo Olivo – Updates on reviewing policies through an anti-bias lens.
November: Updates from CAPS, Swapna Hingwe, DO – Mental health support services and challenges.
February: Jacquez Gray, assistant director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, MSU DPPS and Kim Parviainen, lieutenant, Community Engagement Bureau, MSU DPPS. MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety (DPPS), “DEI Initiatives and campus community safety.”
March: Our featured presenters and topics included Ramadan Culinary Services plan presented by Don Donagrandi, associate director of CS Residential Dining and Kim Steed-Page, director of MSU’s Student Parent Resource Center, “Positive Disruption: Connecting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Trauma Work in Higher Education.”
