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Diversity Plan:
2003 - 2005
GOAL III: Student Recruitment and Retention
USM strives to increase the diversity of its student body
through active outreach and recruitment. USM increasingly
works to develop structures and mechanisms that support the
retention of all students, particularly students of color
and other underrepresented populations.
- Continue to collect and track ethnicity data on prospects,
applicants, and admitted, deposited and enrolled students.
- Continue to design, develop and implement strategies
to attract underrepresented populations from the prospect
through enrolled stages of admission.
- Emphasize and instill a unified climate of inclusiveness
and sensitivity to all underrepresented student populations
throughout all phases of admission activity from recruitment
through evaluation to enrollment.
- Continue targeted student search mailings to multicultural
student populations.
- Continue out of state recruitment travel and activities
targeted toward attracting populations of students of color.
- Include and incorporate current students, staff and faculty
of color wherever possible in recruitment activities, in
particular with on campus programming.
- Continue admission and recruitment activity both in and
out of state targeted toward all under represented student
populations including but not limited to: students of color,
GLBT students, students with disabilities and students from
a complete range of religious, socioeconomic, geographic
and educational backgrounds.
- Explore the development of scholarship opportunities
for underrepresented students.
- In collaboration with the university community, continue
programming and outreach to targeted student groups and
populations in the greater Portland area and beyond. This
will include working with the Portland Public Schools, Portland
Housing Authority and its education centers, programs like
Gear Up and Upward Bound, immigrant and refugee communities,
and organizations and other local social service agencies
and businesses as appropriate.
- Ensure that all admission publications, materials and
processes remain sensitive to the needs of underrepresented
applicants.
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