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Presented to 2004 UKadvance Leadership
Development Institute September 24, 2004
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Mission

• The University is committed to diversity as a
  vital characteristic of an optimal education and
  workplace.  The University maintains a firm
  conviction that it must strengthen the diversity
  of its communities, support free expression,
  reasoned discourse and diversity of ideas, and
  take into account a wide range of considerations,
  including but not limited to, ethnicity, race,
  disability and sex, when making personnel and
  policy decisions. The University is committed to
  periodically evaluating progress made toward
  diversity and to communicating the results of
  such evaluations. Based upon these assessments,
  the University will give diversity factors
  consideration to ensure achievement of its
  mission of instruction, research and service and
  gain the broadest benefits for the University
  community.
• UK Governing Regulations (proposed, 2004)

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The Charge to the PCD

• Advise the President on issues, policies and
  practices that affect the University of
  Kentuckys commitment as a champion of diversity
• Report regularly to the President and the
  University community on the status of issues of
  diversity at UK (on matters of racial and ethnic
  diversity in employment, working environment,
  compensation and campus leadership
• Offer recommendations to redress all forms of
  racial and ethnicity-related inequities, that is
  , making recommendations for enhancing the
  Universitys recruitment, retention and
  graduation on minority students in all of its
  programs, and for enhancing the institutions
  recruitment and retention of minority faculty and
  staff
• Propose initiatives to ensure racial and ethnic
  diversity at the University of Kentucky which
  full engage faculty, staff and students in the
  creation of a campus that is inclusive, that is,
  cultural affairs, communications, curriculum,
  extra-curricular opportunities, and community
  affairs

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Commission membership

• Faculty representation- 11
• Staff representation- 7
• Student representation-3
• Community representation- 2
• Non-voting representation (students/staff)- 4
• Areas represented
• Education, Counseling/Testing, UK Hospital,
  Library Information Sciences, Communications,
  Nutrition Food Science, Assessment and Student
  Research Programs, Disability Resources, English,
  African-American Studies, Political Science,
  Student Affairs, Multicultural and Academic
  Affairs, Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, SGA

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The Dream the Challenge Nurture Diversity

• Strategic Goal V
• Nurture diversity of thought, culture,
• gender, and ethnicity

Key indicator Ability to meet the enrollment and
persistence goals of the Kentucky Plan for Equal
Opportunities in Higher Education and the
employment goals of the University Affirmative
Action Plan.
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Accomplishments of the Commission

• Established and operationalized the Commission,
  its structure, charge and mission
• Developed university-wide initiatives with
  eighteen specific recommendations relative to the
  faculty, staff and student status of historically
  underrepresented populations at this institution
• Proposed and sponsored the "Bucks for Brains"
  summer research initiative for undergraduate
  students
• Developed and launched the PCD website
  www.uky.edu/PCD
• Assisted in the preparation of a senior level
  community relations and outreach initiative whose
  goal is to achieve the participation of
  culturally diverse individuals through planned
  programs established with the Vice President for
  Academic Outreach.
• Cultural Voices focus group study
• Sponsored the universitys commemoration of 50th
  anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court decision

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Presidents Awards for Diversity
2003 Inaugural Award recipients (left)
2004 Award recipients (right)
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Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration

• 189 attendance
• Keynote speakers-
• Dr. Robert Hemenway, Chancellor, University of
  Kansas
• Dr. Geneva Gay, Professor,
• University of Washington-Seattle
• Professor Mildred W. Robinson, the Henry L. and
  Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of
  Law, University of Virginia
• Photos videos (see website)

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Equal Opportunity Panel Award Recipients
--Cultural Voices Pilot Study--

• Purpose
• 1) Examination of faculty, staff, students
  perceived diversity-related, Cultural experiences
  with UK
• 2) Impact on organization processes
• Preliminary report on website www.uky.edu/PCD

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Presidents Commission on Diversity 2004-2005 Goals
Inclusion
Campus Environment
Diversity Plan
Mentoring
Underrepresentation
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