IS Diversity Council

IS Diversity Council

The Diversity Council has three main responsibilities: promoting the recruitment and mentoring of a diverse student body and developing support structures for those students within Information Studies; providing advice, data, and other support related to diversity considerations to the Undergraduate, Professional, and Doctoral Program Committees as well as the Admissions, Awards, and Recruitment Committee; and undertaking special initiatives related to diversity concerns (this includes continuation of existing initiatives). The Council may create sub-committees to oversee specific initiatives, such as the current Diversity Recruitment and Mentoring Sub-Committee. Activities of the Council should take into consideration all programs, activities, and professional areas addressed by the Department.

The Diversity Council will have 2 co-chairs, one of whom will be a faculty member appointed by the Chair of the Department of Information Studies. The other co-chair for the forthcoming academic year will be nominated and elected by the Council as a whole at its first meeting of the academic year. No maximum membership is specified.

Past Events/Initiatives

• Diversity Recruitment Summit, September 18, 2006 http://isdiversity.gseis.ucla.edu/summit06
• Diversity Recruitment and Mentoring Committee (DRMC), 1999-2006.
  The DRMC is made up of UCLA faculty, students, staff, and leaders from the local library community who want to increase the number of culturally diverse students eventually graduating from the Information Studies program at UCLA with an MLIS degree.