SUNY Empire PRODiG Steering Committee
The PRODiG Steering Committee advances Empire State University’s core value of diversity, equity, and inclusion and directly supports the academic and inclusive excellence strategic priority and the DEI Action Plan.
The Committee serves as an advisory and recommending body to the Provost and works to advance SUNY Empire’s PRODiG goals. The advisory body represents a collective voice to guide the academic leadership on structural changes and initiatives throughout the faculty lifecycle that ensure the retention of racialized faculty.
Specifically, the Committee will:
- Generate novel ideas and recommendations that will likely be effective to attract and recruit racialized faculty on tenure-track lines.
- Identify processes and initiatives to retain and successfully support racialized faculty, including participants of the PRODiG Fellowship Program.
- Identify initiatives to build pipelines to academic careers among students from historically marginalized groups.
- Review and propose revisions to SUNY Empire’s PRODiG goals.
Steering Committee Membership
Standing Members
- Chief Diversity Officer: Xiomara Giordano – Co-chair
- Associate Provost for Faculty and Academic Excellence: Rob Sanders – Co-chair
- Director of Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development: Melissa Wells
- Affirmative Action Officer/Title IX Coordinator: Vacant
- Office of Human Resources: Lindsay Holcomb
- Office of Decision Support: Andre Foisy
- Dean: Nicola Allain
- Student: Vacant
School Representatives
- Arts and Humanities: Betty Wilde-Biasiny
- Behavioral Sciences: Lynn Lubecki
- Business: Margaret Sithole
- Graduate: Glenn Pichardo
- Human Services: Rodlyn Hines
- HVALS: Barrie Cline
- Math, Science, and Technology: Cinzia Cera
- Nursing and Allied Health: Kim Stote