University of Southern Maine

CEHD created a three-year Diversity Action Plan as part of a University-wide initiative entitled "A Diverse Education is a Quality Education.”

As part of this initiative, USM dedicated itself to the investigation, creation, and implementation of intercultural structures and practices. Each academic and administrative unit created a Diversity Action Plan that supported USM’s broad commitments to diversity:

• Shaping the curriculum to reflect our multicultural society;
• Achieving continued and sustained success in recruitment and retention of a diverse faculty, staff and student body;
• Sustaining a climate that encourages and integrates differences;
• Inspiring its members to find their authentic voices; and becoming civically engaged; and
• Recognizing the interdependence, and dignity of all participants.

Standing with CEHD Professor Lynne Miller,
George Mason University Professor and former
CEHD Libra Scholar, Mark Hicks. Dr. Hicks was on campus
in the summer 2007 to deliver a summer intensive called,
“Multicultural Adult Development: Defining and Re-defining
Cultural Maturity in a Multicultural World.”