Key Diversity Initiatives and Services on Campus

Compiled by: Dr. Becky Havens, Associate Provost
Fall 2004

Contact person for each area is in parentheses.

1. Admissions - scholarships and recruiting targeted to ethnically diverse student populations (Scott Shoemaker)

2. Student Development - Director of Diversity and International Student Services (Lilia Davis  with supervisor of area: Caye Smith)

3. Study Abroad - we send out approximately 100 students per semester for emersion experiences abroad (David Strawn or Kevin Archer)

4. Diversity Committee - recently reconstituted, a part of the standing committee structure and a committee that will be an integral part of our WASC self-study (Jo Birdsell)

5. New Faculty Seminar - one session devoted to diversity issues at Point Loma (Becky Havens)

6. Social Issues Discussion Group - faculty discussion group that meets every Friday over lunch and discusses social issues, subject of ethnicity comes up in many of the readings we select (Becky Havens)

7. Curriculum - certain courses developed (various department chairs)

8. Women's Studies Center - minor developed, courses and curriculum often bridge ethnic issues, and a variety of events offered (Linda Beail)  For example Dr. Becky Havens and Dr. Jo Birdsell team teach a course in this program called: Racial and Gender Issues in Economics and Education

9. Center for Justice and Reconciliation - variety of activities for students and faculty/staff (Jamie Gates)

10. Student Trips - Spiritual Development, Loveworks (Jeff Bolster)

11. Student Ministries - local service and ministry to the underserved, may bridge or overlap education about diversity issues (Becky Modesto)

12. Student Film series - touch on expanding students' perspectives, sometimes on ethnicity (Sylvia Cortez or spiritual development office)

13. Core Value listed in the new Strategic Plan (President Brower) and Strategic Goals listed in the vision statement - disseminated by the President at the Community Life Dinner that says our goal by 2015 is "an ethnic diversity of 25% in undergraduate enrollment, 35% at the graduate level" (white document from Community Life Dinner)