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 Dean of 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; Director of Public Affairs; a representative from the Provost’s Office; a representatives from Title V/TRIO; and others recommended by the Provost.

Chair: Equal Opportunity/Employee Relations Director

	Name	Reason for Membership	Term, if applicable
	Ramirez, Sam                         Chair	Director, EO/ER
	Alvarado, Tina	Student Affairs (1 of 3)
	Avila, Linda	Provost’s appointee
	Cortinas, Debra	Director, Human Resources
	Dechant, Margaret	Director, Admissions & Records
	Fox, Joe	Faculty Senate (S&T)	term ends 5/04
	Gomez, Aurora
	Gorecki, Ed	Student Government Association President
	Guerra, Veronica	Title V/TRIO
	Hewitt, Vickie	Public Affairs Manager
	Huerta, Carlos	Co-Director, Core Curriculum
	Lujan, Manuel	Dean of Enrollment Management
	Marinez, Diana	Academic Dean
	Orser, Paul	Planning & Inst. Effectiveness
	Winston, Kathy	Provost’s Office
	Wilson, Jan	Student Affairs (1 of 3)
	Vasquez, Charles	Student Affairs (1 of 3)
	Zeriali, Dolly	Director, Financial Assistance
		TACHE representative
		Staff Advisory Council