We have attorneys from all over the world. Backing it Up Beyond recruiting, schools can manipulate many other elements to improve the minority student experience. Graham says her school helps to fund her organization and similar groups, but says it would be nice to also have an office and phone. Alvarado credits UCLA for working with student organizations to further their goals. But both say, as do many of their peers elsewhere, that it's ultimately up to students to ensure their groups are effective.
Schools can pursue other avenues.
He says one result was a reception the administration organized last fall bringing minority alumni, practitioners and students together. Curriculum is another target. A last critical element, say students, is ensuring that minorities currently enrolled get sufficient academic support. Without that knowledge, he says, some get their first taste of failure. They go through some serious psychological changes.