Introduction
Background
A Framework to Foster Diversity at Penn State: 2004 - 09
Campus Climate and Intergroup Relations
Representation (Access and Success)
Education and Scholarship
Institutional Viability
and Vitality
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Notes
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Conclusion

Given Penn State’s decentralized structure, each college and unit bears a great responsibility for addressing these four dimensions of diversity and for successfully fulfilling the Challenges. However, full implementation rests upon centralized leadership for diversity and University-wide responses to each of the Challenges. At a recent CIC diversity conference the keynote address stressed that “creation of an inclusive campus environment reflecting institutional commitment to the synergistic goals for excellence and equity must be the overarching purpose for higher education in the 21st century.”17 Penn State’s successful transformation into a truly “pluralistic learning community characterized by excellence,”18 a leader in higher education in the twenty-first century, will be built upon continued commitment to integrated efforts to achieve the Challenges throughout all levels of the University.