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Student Success Priorities:

DIVERSITY


Increasing and Supporting a Diverse Community
of Students Priority Meeting

Friday, March 12, 2004
1:30 pm KUVC Conference Room
Minutes

In attendance: Jason, Gina, Lisa, Tammara, Trina, Claudia, Marlene, Dean J, Andrew, and Jake

Santos reviewed how the group is progressing and distributed a draft of suggested initiatives. Goal is still to complete task by April 1, 2004. We reviewed document from 1988, Minority Issues Task Force. This document was recommended by Marshall Jackson as the most comprehensive document dealing with multicultural recruitment/retention and diversity.

Trina stated that the state of Kansas will be seeing a 7% decrease in high school graduates. The group should take this into consideration when providing enrollment profiles.

Lisa mentioned that there should be growth in transfer students but not for sure, due to increase in tuition cost. No set pattern in transfer student growth.

Group was okay with freshmen projection numbers set at last meeting.

Notes on projections:

Funding was available in 2002 for American Indians (large scholarships) that is no longer available.

Transfer student projections:
 
2006
2011
2016
American Indian
31
35
40
Asian
51
55
58
Black
51
57
62
Hispanic
75
85
100








Suggested Initiatives discussion:

Lisa Include seeking additional admissions fee grant monies (application fee).
Trina Is there are diversity committee who is seeking to define the meaning of diversity?
Lisa Dr. Roney has established a committee to define diversity for the entire University.
Marlene Can the group provide suggestions to Dr. Roney’s committee?
Lisa From the 1988 document, it was suggested to include early outreach programs and we should evaluate the 1988 document further to see what else is included.
Marlene A group needs to be established to monitor the success of recruitment and student retention. A group is needed to help guide the process so that we don’t repeat our efforts in another 5 years.
Tammara Group should not use the projections to determine success of the diversity priority group. The environment can be affected by new initiatives. Assessment should not just focus on numbers.
Marlene Money should be earmarked for support to help monitor the process.
Jake Other programs exist in biology and maybe we need more grant money for retention programs like biology.
Marlene If we can market KU’s programs, then maybe we can get more support.
Santos Should there only be one committee to monitor admissions goals and what about overall diversity goals for the campus?
Marlene Initiatives could be clumped according to category.
Lisa #9 should provide lower tuition to areas closer to Lawrence; a committee to research and develop a proposal for lower tuition cost for students in the MO side of Kansas City area.
Santos Should we review the 1988 document and initiatives for the next meeting? Send information and/or ideas to Santos for the next meeting.
Gina We should expand on ideas for each initiative.


Assignments before next meeting

  1. Please review the Minority Issues Task Force 1988 document (Andrew Shoemaker has additional copies if you did not receive one).
  2. Review the profile numbers for incoming students and transfer students.
  3. Review proposed initiatives and provide feedback on wording. (We would like to limit these to 10-15 items).
  4. Please email your suggestions to Santos (snunez@ku.edu) by next Friday, March 19th. We will present a first draft of our final document at the next meeting.

Next meeting is March 26, 2004 at 1:30 pm in KUVC conference room