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Diversity Plan:
2003 - 2005
Since its inception as a Title III program in 1983 and a USM
office in 1989, MIS has been one of the most diverse offices
on campus. We have employed men and women of various ages
and backgrounds, and students from various nationalities including
students from Israel, China, Spain, Pakistan, India, Rumania,
etc. MIS seeks the best personnel and deems diverse personnel
as bringing an enrichment of cultural and technical ideas
to the office.
Diversity goals for 2003-2006 are:
Goal I: Climate
USM continuously strives to make the campus a welcoming climate
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.
- Provide encouragement and support for appropriate training
and staff development for all staff to attend diversity
workshops, and promote a sensitivity and understanding of
cultural differences in its contacts both inside and out
of the University.
- Develop and produce information in reports and websites
which will be sensitive to individual needs and insure a
welcoming and responsive environment to multicultural populations.
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.
- Provide an open door to all faculty, staff and students
seeking information and services from MIS and provide those
services in a sensitive and concerned way regardless of
employment status, race, gender, religious belief, enrollment
status, or any other factor which contribute to a multicultural
population.
- Rely on the many rich and diverse personnel available
within the University community to advise and support an
exchange of ideas for the development MIS projects in a
manner inclusive to a multicultural community.
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.
- Ensure that information provided by MIS is accurate and
indicative of faculty, staff or student populations regardless
of representation or under-representation.
- Ensure that all services provided are responsive and
inclusive, and appropriate to diversity efforts at all levels
of the institution.
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.
- Ensure office policies and procedures are sensitive to
diversity goals of USM.
- Provide access and information to MIS resources in support
of diversity goals at USM.
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