Diversity Management Committee

Purpose or Function: The Diversity Management Committee serves to provide an informed forum where issues, policies, practices, and initiatives related to diversity can be discussed on a regular and integrated basis. In so doing, this forum provides students, faculty and staff with an accessible conduit for understanding, developing, and analyzing both concerns and interests related to diversity. Diversity includes both the primary dimensions (e.g., race, sex, disability, age, etc.) and secondary dimensions (e.g., social class, religion, marital status, etc.). 

The Committee will analyze the diversity recruitment and retention efforts identified in the University’s Access and Equity Plan. It will help assess progress toward the goals in the plan and provide input for the Access and Equity reports the University submits to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The Committee will also present its analysis of whether or not the University is meeting its goals to identify, recruit, and graduate a diverse student body and a diverse and highly qualified faculty and staff to the Strategic Planning and Budgeting Council. 

The Committee will also provide a forum for pooling information and perspectives from various campus offices on matters related to diversity, act as a group resource for intermediate and long range planning and for current concerns in the area of diversity, identify the primary strategic diversity issues which the University faces now, and will face over the next ten years, and provide continuous feedback to the University of the results and progress of initiatives approved and on newly emerging diversity issues and trends facing the University that may affect our efforts to formally advise the University on matters related to diversity.

Membership: The Access and Equity Coordinator; the Associate VP for Enrollment Management; the Directors of Admissions and Records, Financial Assistance, Human Resources, Equal Opportunity and Employee Relations, and the Core Curriculum Program; one representative selected by the Faculty Senate; three representatives from Student Affairs, one representative each from the Staff Advisory Council, the Women’s Center, and TACHE/LADE/Amigos; one academic dean; a representative from the Office of Planning and Inst. Effectiveness; Student Government President; a representative from Institutional Advancement, a representative from the Provost’s Office; a representative from Title V/TRIO; a representative from the Library, and others recommended by the Provost.

Chair: Equal Opportunity/Employee Relations Director