Diversity Initiatives - 2004

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Support of the Learning Communities and First Year Experience Steering Committee
The Office of Institutional Assessment and Diversity has played a crucial role in the development and progress of the Learning Communities and First Year Experience Steering Committee. The Steering Committee is a representative group of students, faculty, staff, and administrators from across the university community which will offer recommendations to the University Task force on the Undergraduate Experience.

Minority Recruitment Leadership Team
Along with several campus offices, the Office of Institutional Assessment and Diversity has advocated for the intentional recruitment efforts geared toward minority students, faculty, and staff. Following recent overwhelming successes in minority student recruitment, Texas A&M University continues to support the Minority Recruitment Leadership Team and further enrich the TAMU Campus. Texas A&M University President Robert Gates has continued to support the effort, making Texas A&M University the only research intensive university in the nation which has shown increases in all minority student populations and has devoted $12 million to the recruitment, retention and financial support of minority students.

Recruitment in the Corps of Cadets
A linchpin of Texas A&M's new minority-recruitment strategy is its military-training program, the Corps of Cadets. Realizing that black and Hispanic students each account for about a third of those enlisted in the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs in high schools, the university has greatly expanded a program that brings JROTC participants to its campus for four days of leadership training. This year it plans to bring about 370 JROTC participants to the campus--nearly three times as many as two years ago--and to eventually enroll 150 to 200, about half of them black or Hispanic. "If we are just fishing in this prospect pool, diversity is taking care of itself," says Sgt. Major Dennis L. Hastings, the Corps of Cadets' assistant director in charge of recruiting. For the full story, search archives of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Support and Evaluation of the 2004 TAMHN Summit
The Office of Institutional Assessment and Diversity coordinated the evaluation of the Summit. To see the results of the TAMHN Summit Evaluation, click here.

Support of the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute Seminar – Demographics in Democracy.
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, through the collaborative support of the Office of Institutional Assessment and Diversity, the Bob Bullock Chair in Govt. and Public Policy, the George Bush School of Government & Public Service, the TAMU Libraries, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Sociology, has offered a series of seminars entitled the Diversity & Democracy Seminar Series. The seminar series has offered excellent information, diverse perspectives, and thoughtful conversation on the role of race in the voting and democratic processes.

OIAD supports Residence Hall Association “Diversi-tee” Program
Patrick Paschall, director of Multicultural Programming for the Residence Hall Association, and many other student leaders, faculty and staff handed out 935 free t-shirts on a rainy day in the fall semester. The shirts read ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ on the front and ‘We’re all Aggies’ on the back, surrounded by 36 ‘diversity words’ that encompass every individual in one way or another.
The program was strongly supported by 32 organizations on campus including The Office the President, OIAD, and The Vice President for Student Affairs to name a few.