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Diversity Plan:
2003 - 2005
The Telecommunications and Campus Card offices pride themselves
in being distinctive offices that support a progressive environment
for working and learning. Ours are responsive departments
that respect and value the diversity of our community and
we provide a secure and comfortable environment that promotes
community involvement in the achievement of our common goal:
customer service.
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.
- All staff will be encouraged to participate in any and
all training and staff development opportunities relating
to diversity.
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.
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.
- The Telecommunications office provides department funds
for student workers. This allows students without work study
funds to remain employed and, hopefully, at USM.
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.
- Continue our existing hiring policies of interviewing
competent applicants from under-represented populations.
- Encourage applications from under-represented groups
in all recruitment advertisements.
- The Telecommunications and Campus Card offices are staffed
by a diverse work force in relation to age, gender and race.
We will continue to ensure that our policies and procedures
related to searches and hiring are sensitive to the diversity
goals of USM.
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