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Diversity Plan:
2003 - 2005
GOAL I: Climate
USM continuously strives to make the campus a welcoming climate
of inclusive in its understanding and integration across multiple
dimensions of diversity, including, but not limited to, diversity
based on race and ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation,
age, gender expression and identity, religion and class.
Facilities Management is committed to providing a safe, healthy,
clean, comfortable and favorable learning, living, and working
environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors.
- Facilities Management will continue department wide Diversity
Training, to all staff, at least once a year.
- Facilities Management will continue to increase tolerance
by participating in Safe Zone Training, which 5 employees
have attended.
- Facilities Management will strive for a welcoming climate
for all staff and University community by encouraging all
staff to participate in training and staff development opportunities
offered on campus and through external professional development
opportunities.
- Facilities Management's commitment to increasing the
diversity of staff is reflected in its approaches to hiring.
As positions become available, every effort is made to recruit
qualified individuals from underrepresented populations.
Facilities Management has a proud history of having one
of the greatest number of diverse staff.
GOAL II: Academic Experience
The USM academic experience, which includes both curricular
and co-curricular activities, increasingly reflects the multiplicity
and diversity of communities and cultures locally, nationally,
and globally.
Facilities Management will continue to work in collaboration
with internal and external groups to expand diversity within
our division.
- Facilities Management will continue to promote importance
of education through cooperative work programs dealing with
students at risk.
- Facilities Management will continue to hire individuals
with disabilities for the Recycling and Custodial departments.
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.
Facilities Management will continue to promote importance of
education through cooperative work programs dealing with students
at risk.
- Facilities Management will continue job shadowing through
Employee Trust Incorporated (ETI).
- Facilities Management will continue with Summer Vision,
a program for employing blind high school students for a
six week period to give them the college experience.
- Facilities Management will continue to work with Maine
Medical Occupational Therapy department.
- Facilities Management will continue to work with Preble
Street Resource Center through the Recycling department.
- Facilities Management will continue to cosponsor "Bring
your daughter to work day."
GOAL IV: Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention
USM strives to increase the diversity of faculty and staff,
particularly faculty and staff of color, but inclusive of other
underrepresented populations as defined in Goal I.
Facilities Management will continue their recruitment efforts
to encourage people of diverse backgrounds for employment.
- Facilities Management will continue to work collaboratively
with community agencies and employee resources such as Department
of Behavior Services, Catholic Charities of Maine, Maine
Medical Occupational Therapy department, Employment Trust,
Department of Labor Division for the Blind & Visually
Impaired and Casey Child Services.
- Facilities Management will continuously work on increasing
the number of female employees, networking with such organizations
as Women in Construction and the Society of Women Engineers
and working with women consultants.
- Lack of competitive wage, which we have no control over,
is our biggest hurdle to retain our diverse population.
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