<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Everyone is invited to join us for the </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GSC DEI Conduit Meeting tomorrow </span><span style="color:black"><b>Thursday, 10/8, at 5pm. </b>Zoom link </span><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/94939466402" target="_blank" style="">here</a><span style="color:black">. </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> This will be a continuation of bi-weekly <span class="gmail-il">meeting</span> series dedicated to discussing challenges with improving DEI at the departmental level.
</span><span style="color:black"><br></span><span style="color:black">At the meeting, you can expect:</span><br></font><ul style=""><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:bold">Introductions</b>, meet your peers=)</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:bold">Short debrief </b>from last week's Town Hall on Faculty Hiring and Grad Admissions, which included big updates from student leaders in Physics/ChemE/EAPS/EECS/DUSP<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Follow-up discussion</b> from the Conduit Meet and Greet 9/23, which included hiring diversity officers, DEI committees, department town halls, ICEO + dept collab, external advisor boards</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Open brainstorm+feedback</b> on GSC DEI's upcoming Handbook on Grad Admissions Advocacy. Our goal is to include a comprehensive roadmap for student advocates pushing for equitable graduate admissions, including how to strategize with faculty+admin, common pushbacks, examples of dept with progresive policies, potential student/faculty allies, legal clarifications ...</font></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">See you there!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">GSC DEI</font></div></div>