委员会赞助: 凯茜乔丹，临时副总法律顾问
委员会主席: 卡拉奥沙利文政策办公室主任
公平评估委员会 (EAC) is a standing committee composed of faculty, staff, and students from across the University with education, experience, and interest in equity issues. The committee includes both appointed representatives from designated university entities and volunteers-at-large from the university community.
As prescribed in 101年政策 规管政策的政策, the EAC is a committee of faculty, students, and staff established to review and assess policy drafts through an equity framework to protect, promote, and enrich equal opportunity and diverse viewpoints and to ensure policies are impartial and fair for all members of the university community. The EAC serves to advance 犹他谷大学’s commitment to creating and maintaining a supportive infrastructure for inclusion by shaping policies of exceptional care. The EAC will identify and make recommendations to reduce and resolve equity issues that may have an unequal impact on certain members of the university community, where possible.
The EAC reviews and assesses policy drafts through an equity framework to protect, promote, and enrich equal opportunity and diverse viewpoints and to ensure policies are impartial and fair for all members of the university community. The committee assesses all university policy drafts as they go through the development process and existing policies in the 政策手册 to determine whether the drafts contain any equity concerns.
公平评估委员会 (EAC) Review occurs during Stage 2 of the regular policy development process. In this review, the EAC reviews the Stage 2 draft for potential equity issues and provides recommendations to the policy steward and sponsor. 然后政策管理者和发起人进行他们认为合适的修改。 This review is done concurrently with the UVU governance entities' review. Once all reviews are completed, the 政策办公室 then submits the draft to the policy subcommittee and President’s Council for approval.
注意: 公平评估委员会 also reviews policies that are currently in 手动. 这里不讨论这个过程。
1 .物流Once a draft has entered Stage 2, the 政策办公室 will schedule the Equity Assessment Committee (EAC) evaluation of the draft. The 政策办公室 is responsible for posting the draft to the EAC Microsoft Teams channel one week before the EAC meeting.
步骤2作用域内和作用域外注释Before the EAC conducts the meeting, all committee members will review the draft and leave comments that are both in- and out-of-scope. All EAC feedback will be guided by the 股权评估准则 and will address the protected groups included in the rubric.
作用问题 are equity issues the EAC has identified that affect the protected groups included in the 股权评估准则. The EAC findings will be documented in the EAC权益工作表 with possible solutions.
检查问题 can include editorial concerns, broad questions that cannot be focused on a specific in-scope protected group, and other similar issues. This feedback will be documented in the working draft.
步骤3管家和赞助商回应政策办公室将评估会的调查结果送交管事组和赞助者审阅。 管事会及保荐人会检讨选管会的调查结果及建议的解决方案。 The policy owners must respond to all in-scope issues documented on the EAC权益工作表 within two weeks. The policy steward must clearly state that they are accepting or rejecting the proposed solutions.
作用的问题: The policy steward and sponsor must respond to each finding and state how they will mitigate each equity issue. They must then explain how they will implement the accepted proposed solution into the policy draft or why they cannot implement the proposed solution. Some reasons for not implementing proposed solutions might be, for example, the suggested solution would place undue hardship on the University, the suggestion is cost-prohibitive, or another equity issue will arise by resolving the initial one. They can also explain why they may implement or address only part of the proposed solution or give a general timeline for when the equity issues can be addressed.
检查问题: The steward and sponsor are not required to respond to the out-of-scope equity concerns and may address them as they see fit. The out-of-scope issues will remain private for the drafting committee’s internal use.
To see examples of completed in-scope and out-of-scope EAC worksheets including the policy steward and sponsor responses, view the 完成EAC工作表示例 document.
4 .提交The policy steward or sponsor will make the necessary changes before submitting the finalized Stage 2 draft along with the EAC权益工作表 with steward responses to the 政策办公室 for review. In addition, General Counsel and the Chief Officer of Engagement and Effectiveness will receive the EAC权益工作表.
Once the 政策办公室 review is complete, the policy draft can move to the final step in the regular Stage 2 drafting process: submitting the final draft to policy subcommittee and President’s Council for approval.
The 政策办公室 will include the EAC worksheet with in-scope findings and responses with the policy draft when the draft is submitted to President’s Council for entrance to Stage 3 Board of Trustees Review. The 政策办公室 will also post the in-scope issues with the policy draft in the 政策的管道 during Stage 3 for public viewing.
