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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1 Statement by Penn State President Graham B. Spanier, (June 23, 2003). Available: http://live.psu.edu/index.php?sec=vs&story=3349.

2 “Joint Statement by National Higher Education Leaders on Today’s Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger,” (June 23, 2003). Available: http://www.acenet.edu.

3 Data provided by the University Budget Office and the Penn State Fact Book http://www.budget.psu.edu/factbook/.

4 Data provided by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and International Programs.

5 Data provided by the Office for Disability Services.

6 Center for Adult Learner Services, November 2002, based on enrollment information supplied by the University Budget Office, analysis of number of undergraduate students who are 24 years of age or older and who are enrolled as resident instruction or continuing education students.

7 Commission for Women, unpublished survey of Penn State tenured faculty, conducted fall 2002.

8 C. Russell, Racial and Ethnic Diversity (Ithaca, NY: New Strategist Publications, 1998).

9 Daryl Smith’s meta-analysis of research on diversity in higher education and the impact of campus diversity initiatives on college students suggests four interdependent dimensions of campus diversity. See Caryn MacTighe Musil, Mildred García, Cynthia A. Hudgins, Michael T. Nettles, William E. Sedlacek and Daryl G. Smith, To Form a More Perfect Union: Campus Diversity Initiatives (Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1999); Daryl G. Smith, “Strategic Evaluation: An Imperative for the Future of Campus Diversity,” in, Diversity and Unity: The Role of Higher Education in Building Democracy, 2nd Tri-nation Campus Diversity Seminar ed. M. Cross, N. Cloete, E. Beckham, A. Harper, J. Indiresan and C. Musil, (Capetown: Maskew Miller Longman, 1999), 155-176; Daryl G. Smith, Guy L. Gerbrick, Mark A. Figueroa, Gail Harris Watkins, Thomas Levitan, Leeshawn Cradoc Moore, Pamela A. Merchant, Haim Dov Beliak, and Benjamin Figueroa, Diversity Works: The Emerging Picture of How Students Benefit (Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1997).

10 Ernest Boyer, Campus Life: In Search of Community (Princeton, N.J.: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990); AAC&U The Drama of Diversity and Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1995).

11 Daryl G. Smith; Guy L. Gerbrick, Mark A. Figueroa, Gail Harris Watkins, Thomas Levitan, Leeshawn Cradoc Moore, Pamela A. Merchant, Haim Dov Beliak, and Benjamin Figueroa, Diversity Works: The Emerging Picture of How Students Benefit (Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1997).

12 Daryl G. Smith and Natalie B. Schonfeld, “The Benefits of Diversity: What the Research Tells Us,” About Campus (November/December 2000): 16-23.

13 A Framework to Foster Diversity at Penn State: 1998-2003, page 8.

14 Assessments included surveys, focus groups, interviews, online discussion groups via ANGEL, etc.

15 Data to support points made in this paragraph regarding the enrollment of Penn State students and the graduation disparities between undergraduate students of color and white students were obtained from the Penn State Fact Book (www.budget.psu.edu/factbook/). The NCAA Web site (www.ncaa.org/grad_rates/2002/d1/index.html) was the source for data on the graduation rates of undergraduate African American students at Penn State and at peer institutions. Some specific points of these data include: Penn State enrollment of students of color among all students at all locations was 5,711 or 7.6 percent in fall 1992 compared to 9,352 or 11.3 percent in fall 2002; the Penn State four-class average graduation rate after six years was 65 percent for African American undergraduate students (University Park) which, among prominent benchmark institutions (Cal Berkeley, Michigan, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Texas at Austin, and Virginia), was only exceeded by Virginia.

16 Data provided by the University Budget Office.

17 John Brooks Slaughter, “Diversity: An Opportunity for Excellence and Equity—The Essential Role of Faculty Diversity,” Diversity Forum 2003 Lessons Learned: What Works and What Hurts, Conference Report Draft, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, July 2003. p. 23.

18 John Brooks Slaughter, “Diversity: An Opportunity for Excellence and Equity—The Essential Role of Faculty Diversity,” Diversity Forum 2003 Lessons Learned: What Works and What Hurts, Conference Report Draft, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, July 2003. p. 18.

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