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.

Overarching Goal: Improve the internal climate of the Marriott School to be more supportive to underrepresented and international students and faculty, to provide non-minority students both cultural awareness and sensitivity to diversity issues to increase their effectiveness in today's diverse workforce, and to recruit a more diverse student body and faculty.

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
Treavor Peterson, Director of MBA Student Recruiting
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