Kelley to get $500,000. donation

[hazmat]

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The philanthropic arm of professional services provider Ernst & Young is donating $500,000 to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business for a program to promote diversity. The Ernst & Young Foundations for Leadership Program will include initiatives focused on the recruitment and retention of diverse and underrepresented students and faculty at Kelley. (Star report)

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[Dare7to7Dream]

<p>Awesome!!!</p>

[IndianaGrad65]

<p>Here’s my problem with IU in general getting all this money to promote diversity, based on my current situation:</p>

<p>I work my ass off, have a 3.9 GPA and my parents make 75k a year, with 2 sisters in college, but am a white kid who is paying ~21k a year.</p>

<p>My roommate parties and plays videogames all the time, has a 2.1 GPA whose parents make 50k a year, with no other siblings in college, but is black and he is getting paid (that’s right, IU is paying him) $3000 a year to come here.</p>

<p>I am not trying to be a racist (my other roommate is Mexican and getting better grades than me (he has 3.97), but he doesn’t disclose his financial information). Diversity is great, but with all these companies paying IU money for diversity, it is not going to be spent in the schools best interest. I think this money may be a double edged sword.</p>

[hazmat]

<p>McRobbie

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today (Jan. 15) that the university has awarded $1 million through the President’s University Diversity Initiative to fund 12 projects that will strengthen racial, ethnic and cultural diversity at seven IU campuses.

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<p>[IU</a> President’s University Diversity Initiative announces funding for 12 projects: IU News Room: Indiana University](<a href=“IU President's University Diversity Initiative announces funding for 12 projects: IU News Room: Indiana University”>IU President's University Diversity Initiative announces funding for 12 projects: IU News Room: Indiana University)</p>

<p>[Increasing</a> Diversity: Speeches and Remarks: Office of the President, Michael McRobbie: Indiana University](<a href=“http://www.indiana.edu/~pres/speeches/diversity.shtml]Increasing”>http://www.indiana.edu/~pres/speeches/diversity.shtml)</p>

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Last month, the Bloomington and IUPUI campuses announced a partnership with nine historically black colleges and universities to create a new HBCU-STEM Initiative to attract and support HBCU students in the critical areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This initiative includes programs of faculty collaboration, joint research institutes, a Summer Scholars Institute for undergraduate students, and an endowed President’s Graduate Fellowship Program in the STEM disciplines for HBCU and first-generation college students.</p>

<p>The time has come to extend the goal of increasing the enrollment of under-represented minorities at the Bloomington campus to all campuses of Indiana University, to faculty and professional staff recruitment, and to the enterprises with which IU does business. This cannot be accomplished with a single approach. IU’s campuses have different missions, they serve different areas, and they bring different assets. To be both effective and realistic, plans must be data-driven and take into account these and other relevant factors. In developing their plans, each campus should enlist the assistance of university resources, such as the Office of the Vice President for Institutional Development and Student Affairs, and the work of the Enhancing Minority Attainment Conference.</p>

<p>We are therefore asking the IUB Provost and the Chancellors to develop campus-specific plans to increase underrepresented minorities in the enrollment of students, in the ranks of faculty and professional staff, and in the utilization of minority- and women-owned businesses by the university. The plans should represent the degree of ambitiousness of the Board’s May 2006 charge to the Bloomington campus. Campus plans should be realistic, consistent with each campus’ distinct mission, and take into account the demographic and economic characteristics of the region that the campus serves, campus assets such as housing, available resources, and other relevant factors. ** The plans are to be submitted to the President by December 1, 2007.**

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[Calcruzer]

<p>I happen to know the college has also been pressured by many recruiters who complain that Indiana and the Kelley school do not have as diverse a student body to recruit from as they would like. Some even stated outright (as recently as December of 2008) that they would stop recruiting at Indiana if the school did not take additional steps to improve diversity.</p>

<p>Obviously, Indiana University has heard their concerns and responded accordingly.</p>

[barrons]

<p>They made the same threats at Wisconsin a few years ago. Sometimes it’s tough to attract minority kids to schools in small midwest cities that are mostly white. Most good minority students have lots of good schools after them and don’t have to settle for a school in a small midwest city.</p>