Published November 18, 2024
Recommendation | Timeline | Status |
Improve our underrepresented student populations undergraduate and graduate student enrollment by adopting and practicing campus-wide holistic admissions and institutional grant-funding criteria to ensure that prospective and admitted students can pursue higher education at UB with less apprehension about covering the cost of obtaining a higher education degree. | Annual Fall to Fall | In Progress. |
Strengthen, reimagine, grow and better coordinate pipeline programs for students of color. | Spring 2024 | Completed. |
Identify and recruit from Buffalo Public and WNY Schools Enrollment Pipelines. (Originally recommended by the Community Engagement Committee) | Spring 2023 | Increased engagement and participation in SUNY Top 10 promise
In Progress. |
Articulate strategic diversity plans for recruiting, retaining, and graduating underrepresented student populations at the school and academic support department levels, including regular assessment of outcomes demonstrating progress towards achieving a critical mass of representation from these plans. | Fall 2024 | Leveraging use of College Board Landscape tool to identify access to challenged districts and locations.
In Progress. |
Conduct annual assessment of outcomes on articulated diversity plans. | Fall 2023 | In Progress. |
Provide transparent, regularly updated and easily accessed data on the President, Provost and University websites regarding race/ethnicity trends of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and other minority students, faculty, and staff as well as current programs and services. | Spring 2023 | In Progress. |