Magna Online Seminar
Grounding Recruitment & Retention Plans in a Multicultural Model
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How can you strengthen your recruitment of students of color, while also helping more of those students persist and graduate?
To stay relevant and viable in the 21st century, colleges and universities will need to be increasingly inclusive of diversity in their admission policies and retention practices.
As demographics in the United States shift, higher education institutions must remain engaged in educating the future leaders of our country. This means recruiting, retaining, and graduating more students of color.
This imperative is part of higher education’s important mission to serve a growing multicultural population while preparing citizens to participate in an increasingly global society.
If you haven’t reviewed your admissions policies lately, now is a great time to revise them from the perspective of broadening your awareness of multicultural issues.
In Grounding Recruitment & Retention Plans in a Multicultural Model, Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington will provide practical tools, models, and best practices for recruiting, retaining and graduating students of color over the next ten years.
What you will learn in this strategic and thought-provoking seminar:
• Strategies for recruiting different student of color populations
• Important do’s and don’ts
• How to communicate and work with family members of students of color
• Recruitment, selection, and admission processes—including working with marketing, financial aid, and recruitment staff—that increase inclusiveness
• Orientation, summer bridge, retention programs and services with a focus on similarities and difference for different student of color groups
• Practical ways to address resistance and backlash to these programs
• How to evaluate your existing campus climate and institutional readiness to go beyond increasing numbers to creating a more inclusive campus environment
• Ways to involve faculty staff, alumni and community members of color
You will also have the opportunity to participate in polling questions and to complete a short assessment about your campus and its existing level of inclusivity during this live seminar.
Who should attend?
This seminar is designed for:
• Vice Presidents for Enrollment Management
• Admission Directors
• Financial Aid Directors
• Coordinators of Minority Recruitment
• Multicultural and Diversity Affairs office staff
• SGA Minority Representatives
• Deans of Students
• Residential Life Professionals
• Greek Life Professionals
• Alumni Relations Professionals
This seminar is appropriate for all institutions, but is particularly recommended for PWIs (primarily white institutions.)
Cost
The cost to register for this 90-minute video online seminar is $279, regardless of the number of attendees from a single sign-on location on your campus. To take full advantage of this offer, make arrangements to view this presentation from a large meeting room or conference center, and invite representatives from different departments at your institution to attend.
Your presenter
Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington is the president and founder of the Washington Consulting Group, a multicultural organizational development firm in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a senior consultant with The Equity Consulting Group of California and Elsie Y. Cross and Associates out of Philadelphia.
He has served as an educator and administrator in higher education for more than 20 years and holds a Ph.D. in College Student Development, with a concentration in Multicultural Education from the University of Maryland - College Park. Jamie is a founding faculty member of the Social Justice Training Institute and a lead faculty member with the Leadershape Institute and the NCSL Certified Student Leader Program.
Event Date: 9/28/2010
Time: 12:00 pm Central
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Bring questions
Multicultural recruitment is a challenging issue. If you have questions about how best to manage improvements at your institution, bring them to this session for the opportunity to join in the discussion and pose them to our expert presenter.
Campus Access
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