Workforce Development Inclusion Efforts 2 Be an employer

Workforce Development & Inclusion Efforts

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Be an employer of choice, creating a modern workforce while attracting and retaining quality workers to deliver our legislative, regulatory and service requirements. 3

• Talent Pipelines • Talent Development • Modern Work Environment • Workforce Analysis and Growth • Employee Engagement 4

Talent Pipelines Find the best possible talent for WSDOT We are working to find the best possible talent for WSDOT. We are using internships, strategic recruitment and community outreach to find the best possible talent for: • Highway Maintenance Worker • Transportation Engineering • Entry-Level Deckhands Training for hiring managers and hiring committees Provide resources – Workforce Development Toolkit 5

2020 College Campus Outreach | Planning & Strategy

Ranking Factors Major Focus % - Percentage of students at the college studying that major. Bachelor's Degree Market Share - Percentage of all U. S. bachelor's degree graduates in that major represented at that college. Master’s Degree Market Share - Percentage of all U. S. master's degree graduates in that major represented at that college. Related Major Focus (m. Power Index) - Measure of how much all the other majors at the college are related to the major. Related Major Breadth - Number of closely related majors offered at the college. Relevant Program Specific Accreditation - Whether or not the major is accredited by a relevant accrediting body (i. e. ABET for engineering). no obvious accrediting body for a major, this factor is ignored for that major's rankings. If

Top 25 Civil Engineering Colleges & Universities Georgia Institute of New Jersey Institute Mass. Institute of Technology Clarkson University Technology 1 2 3 4 5 Worcester Rose-Hulman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Tech Polytechnic Cooper Union for University of Illinois Institute of California – Berkley Virginia Tech 6 7 University of Texas A&M Virginia Military California – Davis University Institute 11 12 13 Science/Art Stevens Institute of Carnegie Mellon Michigan Tech. University of Texas Technology University Austin Manhattan College 16 17 18 19 20 = 75% the Advancement of Princeton University Missouri University White 15 University of of Science & Tech Cornell University Columbia University Lehigh University Washington 21 22 23 24 25 = 60% White AND 60% Male

Next Exercise Step 1: The first step in this next exercise was to pull the College Factual® diversity data for each institution and create a one-page printable “scorecard”. Step 2: The names of the college were removed from the scorecard to omit affinity and bias. Now the stage is set for a blind assessment!

Assessment The team was broken into three small sub-groups, each group reviewing 3 – 4 scorecards at time. The groups evaluated the overall combination of four key factors: 1) Ethnic diversity; 2) Population of male vs female students; 3) Total size of student body, and 4) Geographic diversity as compared to the national average.

Assessment After assessing the scorecards, each sub-groups collectively determined YES, NO, or MAYBE Once agreed, a vote was cast with a color-coded sticker After each vote, the sub-groups were asked to rotate their scorecards to This rotation was repeated until each group assessed assess a new set of schools. and voted on all of the schools in our pool of options.

“I’ll go count the votes. ” The tribe has spoken…

YES MAYBE NO Columbia University Texas Tech University Manhattan College Cornell University Arizona State University North Dakota State University of Houston o Texas A&M – College Station o Virginia Tech University of TX – Austin o Georgia Institute of Technology o Colorado State – Ft. Collins Mass. Institute of Technology o New Jersey Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University o Lehigh University Princeton University of Colorado o University of CA – Berkley ≠ Illinois Institute of Tech o University of CA – Davis ≠ University of Wyoming

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