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Diversity & Affordability<br />
Highlights<br />
Twenty-one percent of University of Minnesota, Morris students are Native American,<br />
with 65 federally recognized tribes represented on campus. Photo credit: Kari<br />
Adams, UMN Morris Communications and Marketing<br />
University of Minnesota, Morris is the<br />
only four-year Native American-Serving<br />
Nontribal Institution in the Upper Midwest.<br />
Twenty-one percent of Morris students<br />
are Native American, with 65 federally<br />
recognized tribes represented on campus.<br />
The US Dept. of Education supported Native<br />
American Student Success (NASS) program<br />
at Morris supports greater educational<br />
attainment for American Indian students by<br />
eliminating college achievement gaps. The<br />
program includes expanded summer bridge<br />
programming, college success coaching, peer<br />
mentoring, a residential living community,<br />
Anishinaabeg and Dakota language<br />
revitalization efforts and a Native American<br />
Elders, Scholars, Activists and Artists in<br />
Residence program. Morris provides a tuition<br />
waiver to eligible Native American students<br />
tied to the campus history as an American<br />
Indian board school (1887–1909).<br />
Anne Gillies, Search Advocate Program Director at Oregon State University, shares<br />
current research about implicit bias, diversity, inclusive employment principles<br />
and effective ways to be an advocate on a search committee.<br />
The Oregon State University Search Advocate<br />
program enhances equity, validity, and<br />
diversity in university hiring. The president<br />
and provost have committed to ensuring that<br />
designated search advocates be included<br />
on leadership search committees, and over<br />
1,400 Search Advocates have been trained<br />
so far. Search Advocate preparation includes<br />
a two-part workshop series addressing<br />
current research about implicit bias,<br />
diversity, inclusive employment principles,<br />
and effective ways to be an advocate on<br />
a search committee. According to reviews<br />
of 2014-15 searches, those with search<br />
advocates resulted in hiring candidates from<br />
underrepresented groups in 25 percent of<br />
the cases, compared to 11 percent for those<br />
without advocates.<br />
<strong>2018</strong> Sustainable Campus Index Table of Contents<br />
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