2001 President

MSU Moorhead
Office of the President
203 Owens Hall
1104 Seventh Ave. S.
Moorhead, MN 56563
(218) 477-2243

2001 President's Summer Retreat
June 25-26, 2001
Changing Faces at MSU Moorhead:
Enlarging the Campus Community in the New Century

Resources

What is Diversity?

From Wilds, Deborah J. (2000). Minorities in Higher Education 1999-2000: Seventeenth Annual Status Report. p. 42-43.
“Three types of diversity have an impact on student outcomes. The first, structural diversity, refers to the numerical and proportional representation of students from different racial/ethnic groups in the student body (Hurtado, Milem, Clayton-Pedersen, & Allen, 1998, 1999). A second type of diversity involves diversity-related initiatives (i.e., cultural awareness workshops, ethnic studies courses, etc.) that occur on college and university campuses. While demographic shifts of changes in the structural diversity of campuses frequently provide the stimulus for diversity-related initiatives (Change, 1999b), some colleges and universities incorporate these types of initiatives even though their campuses are racially and ethnically homogeneous. The final type of diversity, diverse interactions, is characterized by students’ exchanges with racially and ethnically diverse people as well as diverse ideas, information, and experiences. These three types of diversity are not mutually exclusive. . . . while each type of diversity can confer significant positive effects on educational outcomes, the impact is extended by the presence of the other types of diversity” (Chang, 1999b; Gurin, 1999; Hurtado, Milem, Clayton-Pedersen, & Allen, 1998, 1999).

MSUM Office of Multicultural Affairs

MSUM Affirmative Action Office (includes links to the MSUM Affirmative Action Plan and policies)

MSUM Student Organizations

Moorhead Civil Rights Discussion Forums

Demographics

E-Quality at MSU Moorhead 1968-1974

Diversityweb an interactive resource hub for higher education sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Office of Minorities in Higher Education for the American Council on Education