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This is an automatic reply. I am out of the office today, Friday 24 January. I will be back in work on Monday 27 January. Regards Jean >>> ADMIN-EO 01/23/03 18:03 >>> Dear Liz, My suggestion in response is this, you will need to first monitor, by racial group, gender and disability, who is currently represented on all your committees. Then having identified which minority and diverse groups are not represented, you can base any Positive Action initiatives, targeting, outreach work etc,that you might undertake to address this under-representation, on the unsatisfactory institutional picture that you will have identified, as a result of the monitoring exercise. Monitoring also gives you a good evidential base to make your case from and convince any would be detractors. Please be minded that throughout all this exercise and any initiatives that you may decide are necessary, you will need to keep everyone else within the institution fully apprised of the what, why and how of what you are doing. Communication, consultation and meaningful involvement of all those who are relevant, within the institution, is vital. This will not only ensure that you are keeping the institution on board, but also that people will know the reason why they might be asked to do certain things in a particular manner in order to support what you are doing. If this is not done, it becomes very difficult to sustain any initiatives that you may decide to embark on, as part of your response to the requirements of both the RRAA and more importantly, the mores of an equality and diversity based good institutional practice. I hope this helps. If you need any further information on any of the above, please feel free to get back in touch with me any time. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Regards Mannie Kusemamuriwo Policy Adviser: Ethnicity & Cultural Diversity Equality Challenge Unit 3rd Floor, 4 Tavistock Place London WC1H 9RA Tel 020 7520 7063 Fax 020 7520 7069 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Jean Rosemary Burchett [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 21 January 2003 09:28 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Committee under- representation I am interested to hear from HEI colleagues how they are tackling the issue of under- representation of ethnic minorities, women and disabled members of university committees. What approach is being adopted and has anything worked? I appreciate your advice and comments Best wishes Liz Liz Burchett, Equalities Co-ordinator Human Resources Division, Sussex House, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH Tel 01273 877602 Email: [log in to unmask] ********** The Equality Challenge Unit promotes diversity and equality of opportunity for all who work or seek to work in higher education. We are sponsored by the representative bodies (SCOP and Universities UK) and the four UK HE funding bodies. This message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you should not copy or disclose this message to anyone but should kindly notify the sender and delete the message. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message which do not relate to the official business of the ECU shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. No contracts shall be concluded by means of this e-mail. Neither ECU nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses. The administrator of this e-mail service (Universities UK) reserves the right to access and disclose all messages sent over its e-mail system. **********