Diversity Initiative
Purposes and Goals:
The Marriott School's Diversity Initiative has two purposes:
- To recruit more underrepresented students and faculty into the Marriott School.
- To provide all students with both cultural awareness and sensitivity to diversity issues in order to increase their effectiveness in today's diverse workforce.
Strategies:
- Faculty Hiring - Identify and track underrepresented PhD candidates for each program and help to provide mentoring and resource support for them to return to teach at the Marriott School.
- Student Recruiting - Develop a viable pipeline of underrepresented students for each of the graduate programs and make available Extended Reach Scholarships to support these students.
- Internal Climate - Establish and communicate a "Diversity Vision/Philosophy" for the school that would be operationalized through the student experience in each respective program and across the curriculum.
Diversity Resource Committee
The Marriott School has organized a Diversity Committee to help facilitate the efforts as described above. The members of the Committee are:
- Chair: Dr. Michael Thompson, associate dean at the Marriott School of Management
- Kevin Giddins, Director of Diversity at the Marriott School of Management
- Dr. Bill Sawaya, Supply Chain professor and associate director of the MBA program
- Dr. Bonnie Anderson, Information Systems professor
- Catherine Cooper, Director Student Services at the Romney Institute of Public Management
- Cynthia Halliday, Managing Director of the Global Management Center
- Gloria Wheeler, Associate Director of the Romney Institute of Public Management
- Jim Engebretsen, Assistant Dean of Corporate Relations
- Julie Averett, Academic Advisor for the School of Accountancy
- Tad Brinkerhoff, Director of MBA Student Recruiting
