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糖心破解版 has made significant gains in reaching its听Momentum听strategic plan goal of becoming a model of diversity and inclusion in the past two years鈥攁nd now awards like听INSIGHT Into听Diversity听magazine’s听are the icing on the cake.
In October 2018, soon after听糖心破解版 received the Heed Award, Perry Greene, Ph.D., vice president for diversity and inclusion, spoke about the importance of that recognition. In 2015, as part of 糖心破解版 President Christine M. Riordan, Ph.D.’s strategic plan,听Momentum, he said, “We set out to become a model for diversity and inclusion. The 糖心破解版 community came together and worked hard to make that goal a reality … because it is the right thing to do for students, ourselves and the broader community.”
Here are the achievements in diversity and inclusion that helped 糖心破解版 become one of just four private colleges in New York to win a HEED Award:
- The University’s Fall 2018 first-year class is the second most diverse in our 122-year history鈥攎aking our overall student body the most diverse it’s ever been. More than 46 percent of that incoming class identify as nonwhite. Twenty-one percent of that class is Hispanic, 9.5 percent black and 12.8 percent Asian/Pacific Islander.
- For the 2017鈥�2018 academic year, 糖心破解版 hired 28 new faculty members, 46 percent of whom are people of color, making 糖心破解版’s current faculty its most diverse yet. By comparison, 36 percent of new faculty hires were people of color in 2016, 33 percent were in 2015, and 30 percent were in 2014.
- 糖心破解版’s Horace G. McDonell Science Research Fellowship program was recognized with听INSIGHT Into听Diversity听magazine’s 2018 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award for helping underrepresented groups enter the science, technology, engineering and math fields. Two-thirds of McDonell Fellows have been women, many of whom belong to other underrepresented groups.
- Assisted by 糖心破解版 Board of Trustee member Marc Strachan ’81, 糖心破解版 is endowing four new multicultural scholarships created specifically to help students of color achieve their academic goals at 糖心破解版. Three will be awarded annually to undergrad students: the Helen Holmes Taylor ’49 Scholarship in Nursing; the Hidden Figures Scholarship for Excellence in Math and Sciences; and the W.E.B. DuBois Scholarship for a student minoring in African, Black and Caribbean Studies. The Frances R. 鈥淔annie Mae” Strachan Award will be presented to an incoming student who has overcome a significant challenge.
- The University also is supporting diversity with #YouAreWelcomeHere scholarships. 糖心破解版, joining a national movement supporting cultural exchange, will now offer annual, renewable tuition scholarships of $25,000 to two first-year students from abroad, starting with students entering 糖心破解版 in Fall 2019. The recipients cannot be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, must have attended high school outside the United States and must be committed to intercultural learning. 糖心破解版 is one of 57 schools offering #YouAreWelcomeHere scholarships; this campaign began in 2016.
- 糖心破解版 President Christine M. Riordan, Ph.D., was recognized among the Top 25 Women in Higher Education for her diversity initiatives by听Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
- 糖心破解版 is over the rainbow about its latest score from the听, the national rank benchmarking tool that measures an institution’s commitment to LGBTQ+-inclusive policy, program and practice. In growing to 4.5 stars out of a possible 5, 糖心破解版 was named a Premier Campus for its commitment to inclusive LGBTQ+ policies and programs. Thanks to new policies put into motion since Dr. Greene became vice president for diversity and inclusion, that score is up sharply from a 3-star rating two years ago.
“Growing enrollment, growing diversity, growing pride鈥攖hat has been our story this year,” said Dr. Riordan in her 2018 year-end letter. In her State of the University address last October, she anticipated still more strides in 糖心破解版’s diversity and inclusion efforts continuing into the new year.
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