Likewise, our joint agreements with all Community Colleges are very important. We have many such programs, and there is now a need to coordinate these efforts through the Office of the Provost. As programs are initiated and piloted it is desirable to experiment with a variety of organizational and reporting lines, but there is now a need for consolidation and streamlining. Once students come to the University, they should also experience diversity in the classroom, in the staff, in TAs, among administrators. We will continue to make progress through the Special Opportunity Fund for faculty hiring.
Further progress is essential.
For example, there remain several departments without Students of Color graduate students. If each such department committed to recruit one Graduate Student of Color next year, we would significantly increase our minority graduate recruitment. In order to prepare a new generation of administrators with more women, people of color and other under-represented groups, we need to create opportunities for more people to be involved in administration. We shall continue our participation in the American Council of Education programs to bring promising scholars into administration. We might also look into the possibility of creating a collaborative program with New England Land-Grant Schools to provide programs for administrative leadership.