Addressing Recruitment and Retention Through Building Anti-Racist, Multicultural Campuses

Authors

Phyllis May-Machunda, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Multicultural Studies, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Amy Phillips, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Date of this Version

October 2001

Abstract

Conventional and creative strategies for recruitment and retention of people of color in predominantly white institutions have not worked. Long-term success in recruitment and retention requires institutional acknowledgement of systemic racism and development of an anti-racist institutional identity. This presentation will examine one Midwestern campus' effort to achieve this goal.