Development and Guidance
Minnesota State is committed to collectively nurturing and enhancing a civically engaged, socially mobile, and economically productive Minnesota. Minnesota State has a long history of engagement in leading initiatives and grant-funded work around closing equity gaps. Equity 2030 builds from the recommendations of the statewide working groups convened under a strategic initiative, Charting the Future, and the community conversations convened during the year-long Reimagining Minnesota State process.
In January 2020, Chancellor Malhotra appointed four Equity 2030 Chancellor’s Fellows from among Minnesota State faculty across the state to generate an essential knowledge base to lay the philosophical and practical groundwork for Equity 2030. The Fellows were appointed for six months and were appointed for six months and were appointed for six months and were each tasked with collecting information on best practices and forwarding recommendations for providing the Equity 2030 strategic plan with a solid, evidence-based underpinning. We thank the Fellows for their leadership and ongoing support for Equity 2030!
In October 2020, the system office convened an expanded Equity 2030 Working Group to help connect the work happening in the system office Divisions. The Working Group is charged with identifying opportunities for coordination within the system office and assisting with communication around Equity 2030. The Working Group will build on the recommendations forwarded by the Chancellor's Fellows and work to develop prioritization and planning to share with members of the Chancellor's Cabinet.
Learn more below:
Ruthanne Crapo Kim
Dr. Ruthanne Crapo Kim is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Minneapolis College. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Free University of Amsterdam. She previously served as a Chancellor’s Fellow in Academic Equity Strategy. Her main research interests include Environmental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and Decolonial Studies. She has published articles on decolonizing pedagogy, sexual difference theory and race, and ontological labor in the academy. She is the recipient of the 2020 Board of Trustees Educator of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching and resides in North Minneapolis with her family where she supports Northside youth development.
Dr. Ajaykumar Panicker
Together with Dr. Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Dr. Ajaykumar Panicker developed an advocacy-based change management framework that will help clarify how academic equity efforts can best be accomplished. Additionally, they created an academic equity pre-audit tool designed to assist departments with evaluating their classroom cultures and practices. The tool complements the Equity Scorecard initiative under the leadership of the Office of Equity and Inclusion by narrowing the scope of examination from the institution to the department level.
Dr. Doris Hill
Dr. Doris Hill’s work focused on developing a monitoring and evaluation framework to help measure progress toward closing equity attainment gaps. Dr. Hill’s experience in healthcare and nursing gives her unique insight and perspective to build a framework that recognizes and acknowledges the culture changes necessary to accomplish the broader goals.
Dr. Hill is the Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Metro State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing and went forward to complete a two-year post doctorate in the School of Medicine with the University of Minnesota – Duluth. Her main research interests include health disparities, mental health and historical trauma. Dr. Hill previously served as a Chancellor’s Fellow in Target Setting. She is a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and received a HLC Peer Corps Hero award in 2018 for her work with a critical substantive change visit. Her past service includes serving as the President and Vice President for the Minnesota Board of Nursing, serving as a council member on the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice, advisory member for the Minority Fellowship Program through the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) and advisory member for the UCLA, School of Nursing, Center for American Indian/Indigenous Research and Education.
Dr. Jeff Ueland
Dr. Jeff Ueland has been working closely with staff from the Academic and Student Affairs Office of Research to explore and evaluate campus capacity to engage in high-level predictive analytics. His communications with campus institutional research staff have enabled him to further develop a plan for data democratization and will help provide information to those working on the NextGen Enterprise Resource Planning (NextGen ERP) implementation to ensure Minnesota State campus staff are able to access the disaggregated data they will need to monitor their Equity 2030-related efforts.
Equity 2030 builds directly on the work of the Minnesota State Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI). Under OEI’s leadership, teams from every Minnesota State college and university are engaged in work to review equity in the classroom using the Equity by Design methodology. Staff from OEI are also coordinating development of the Minnesota State Equity Scorecard, a statewide dashboard of key performance indicators. These key initiatives are directly aligned with and supportive of Equity 2030.