Nurture an environment of inclusion for all persons

To enrich our community, we will nurture an environment of inclusion for all persons to build a more culturally and ethnically diverse campus .  

We will:

• create a President's Council on Diversity to build on the recommendations of the 2001 Diversity Task Force, identify assertive and achievable goals for campus diversity by 2008 and monitor progress
• secure external and endowed funds to support institutional commitment to diversity
• increase the recruitment and retention of domestic minority students, focusing especially on changing demographics of southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas
• increase the percentage of students coming from nations outside the US
• build a community in which the faculty, staff and administration reflect this increasing diversity
• create and sustain appropriate support structures for minority students, faculty and staff to assure long-term success
• develop meaningful quantitative and qualitative measures of progress toward diversity as a means of increasing dialogue within the Drury community about diversity
• work to improve the educational success and lives of minority students in our local communities
• establish productive relationships with educational, community and religious organizations central to the minority communities in our region
• strengthen our K-16 programs and partnerships (e.g., Comer) that lay the foundation for student success at all levels of the educational system
• develop career pathways to assure increased representation of women and minority in formal and informal campus leadership positions
• build and sustain structures of campus governance that promote critical self-reflection and respect for human dignity

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