Please describe your most significant activities you will implement, expand, or continue in order to accomplish your short term
goals for a more diverse and inclusive department/school/college and will help MTU accomplish its short and long term diversity goals.
|
Specific Objective |
Activity Description |
Person(s) responsible for this objective |
Timeline |
Internal Dollars to be allocated |
External Dollars to be sought |
Other Comments |
| For Faculty |
Faculty Recruitment |
Focused effort to identify strong female and minority faculty candidates during our most recent faculty search |
Department Chair and Department Search Committee |
July 2007 through December 2007 |
Funds for focused advertising and interviewing. Assembled a strong startup package to attract candidate |
None to date. The department chair is in the process of contact key alums to help support the startup package requirements |
Successful. We did hire an excellent female assistant professor - started Jan., 2006. Unfortunately that professor was subsquently stolen away by another university |
| For Students |
Increase UG student enrollment, especially female and underrepresented minorities |
- Invitation to local high school and home schooled students to participate in a day long program promoting the materials engineering discipline
- Direct recruitment of undeclared engineering students on campus |
Department Chair, Technical Staff, several enthusiastic faculty, and even more enthusiastic UG students. |
On going since the spring semester of 2004 |
Money for postage, refreshments and some supplies for the demonstrations |
None |
The program always receives excellent evaluations. Yield of additional students has been marginal at best, but there have been a few. We continue to restructure the program for continuous improvement |
| For Staff |
Increased staff support from outside sources. This has allowed us to add one additional staff to support an area (Innovative Casting Enterprise) that has become popular among the students |
We continue to restructured facilities usage and changes in order to increase resources to support non-general fund staff salaries. Also, we now have significant support from industry for both enterprise and senior design programs. |
Department Chair, COE Senior Design Project Coordinator and ACMAL Director |
Since September 2004 |
None |
Industrial Partners for the Innovative Casting Enterprise, PrISM and Senior Design Projects |
This has been successful to date. Pat Quimby has been added to the technical staff to oversee the metal casting facilities and serve as the building safety officer. |
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