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UMW President Judy Hample gives state of the university address Date published: 11/18/2008
BY JEFF BRANSCOME
University of Mary Washington President Judy Hample yesterday emphasized her commitment to diversity, saying she will hire someone to oversee such initiatives. Hample, who started the job four months ago, said she will soon conduct a national search for a vice president of diversity and inclusion. "I believe that such a person would help us to energize our efforts to heighten diversity awareness and help to focus our attention on achieving a number of specific goals " Hample said. She said the University of Virginia established the position four or five years ago. During an hour-long state of UMW speech, Hample also touched on student life and the school's continuing transition from a college to a university. The audience consisted mostly of employees. She said she hopes to merge business administration and education departments at the Fredericksburg campus and College of Graduate and Professional Studies in Stafford County. Her goal is to create colleges of business administration and education, each with its own dean. She said she wants to start a national search for the deans sometime next year. "From my perspective, it's important that we maximize limited resources, and that we eliminate what I believe to be internal competition for students within these programs," Hample said. She made pointed remarks about campus life, saying alumni she talks with praise what they call the "Mary Washington experience." "I wonder if that is as strong today?" she said. "I've sort of come to the conclusion that it might not be. The perception of too many of our students is that we have an unresponsive bureaucracy and administration." Students, she said, need Internet access to financial records, coursework, transcripts, etc. She said she wants to renovate dorms into "living and working environments" with places to study, socialize and get a cup On the diversity front, Hample said she recently doubled funding for minority-student recruitment. UMW administrators and faculty also need to better represent society, she said.
Date published: 11/18/2008
Many uniting into one. Multi-culturalism is quite the opposite.
America needs one culture for all or we shall perish as a
Nation. Soon.
Is as Racist as Affirmative action . It is, and always has been.
Does this mean that the GPA level a student must have ti get in will be Lowered ??? I know no one will like to see that in ,Print....,But Schools have had to do to keep Quotas Up for Years.
This is not me attempting to "force" multicultralism down your throat. I don't need to force it.. its coming and nothing is going to change that.. I'm simply in support of the presidents idea and so is a alumnae who donated $1.1 million dollars to the cause. I think you posters are concenred that there won't be a place at the table for you after the city becomes more enlightend and inclusive... its not true !.. you're welcome at the table...you can even sit by me !
as long as multiculturalism is embraced by the so called liberal establishment which is anything but liberal.
To overcome racial, religious and all the other divides real or imagined we need to eliminate what separates us. That is multicultural centers, ethnocentic differentiation as in preferences based on race etc.
We need to apply the theoretical melting pot principle and focus on our common traits and not what makes us so damn special.
I can't address Harvard's or Maryland's attraction and retention of minority students, but for a commentary on Virginia's, see rhttp://cavalierdaily.com/news/2008/oct/30/discrimination-by-nature/ecent commentary in the Cavalier Daily at
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