Title: Campus Diversity Initiative records
Bulk Dates: 1970-2001

Creators:

• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

• Durand, Bernice Black, Professor, 1942 - 2022

Unique Identifier: uac88

Quantity: Collection includes notes, correspondence, planning documents, and drafts

• 3.5 Linear Feet
• 3 record storage cartons, 1 letter document box

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Madison. University Archives and Records Management

Abstract:

The Campus Diversity Initiative records document a series of University of Wisconsin initiatives focused on increasing the enrollment and graduation of students of color and the creation of a more inclusive and multicultural campus environment. The collection includes documents concerning the University of Wisconsin System initiatives "Design for Diversity" (1988) and "Plan 2008" (1998) with special attention to the implementation of these initiatives on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Language: English .

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The Campus Diversity Initiative records are arranged partially according to their original order from the transferring institutions and partially by order imposed at the time of processing. The first two accessions, 1992/060 and 1993/057 were partially in order when the UW-Archives took custody of them. These accessions have been interfiled and together comprise boxes 1 and 2 in the final arrangement. Where possible this order has been preserved. At this time there were also a number of loose documents, those have been rehoused and labeled by the processor. Original file titles and file contents are interfiled alphabetically with those files created during processing.

In addition, boxes 3 and 4 were originally part of accession 2009/060 which was part of the personal papers of Professor Bernice Durand. The order of these documents was wholly imposed at the time of processing and they are arranged alphabetically by file title.

The Campus Diversity Initiative records document the planning and implementation of a number of projects undertaken by the University of Wisconsin between 1988 and 2008 in order to broadly recenter diversity and inclusion in the University's activity. A spate of incidents of discriminatory activity on and off the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison between 1986 and 1988 and subsequent campus protests garnered national press attention and set the tone for discussions about diversity and the campus climate to permeate the top levels of university administration. In response to the Phi Gamma Delta "Island Party" incident and the protests lead by the Black Student Union, the UW-Madison created the Steering Committee on Minority Affairs. The final report of this Committee, colloquially known as the Holley Report after Professor Charles Holley, was published by the Chancellor's office in 1987. The Holley Report highlighted a number of concerns which would be echoed in much of the campus diversity planing that would follow, including the low rates of acceptance and retention for students of color, the lack of outreach programs and multicultural institutions on campus, and the lack of multicultural elements in the undergraduate curriculum. The Madison Plan, the first of UW-Madison's comprehensive diversity action plans would follow the next year.

UW-Madison was not alone in its prioritization of diversity issues. The University of Wisconsin System was, by 1988, also in the midst of its own diversity program, the Design for Diversity. Design for Diversity called for the Chancellor's of all UW System schools to present to the System President in one year a comprehensive plan to address key diversity areas on each campus over the next ten years. UW-Madison's "Madison Plan" served as its report to the System President.

The chief concern of Design for Diversity was the recruitment and retention of so called "targeted minority" students in the State of Wisconsin, these plans both sought to address a raft of issues which either represented barriers to entry for students with targeted minority backgrounds or hindered their successful participation, contribution, and eventual graduation from courses of study on UW campuses. By "targeted minority" the plan specifically indicated African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, American Indians, and South East Asian and Pacific Islanders. These groups had seen, over the preceding decades, rates of admission and graduation proportionally lower than their representation in the states population as a whole. The diversity plans both identified a number of factors in this under-representation including the financial burden of University education, the hostile campus climate and lack of institutions focused on multicultural issues, the underrepresentation of these same groups in faculty, academic staff, and graduate students, and the lack of representation for these groups in curricula and course offerings.

The Madison Plan sought to create measurable goals and implementation time tables for the creation and expansion of campus resources which would increase access for minority students, build the presence of minority and multicultural institutions on campus, and broaden the available courses of study pertaining to underrepresented groups. This included expanding financial aid resources, stepping up recruitment efforts in High Schools including specifically those in Dane county and the City of Milwaukee, creating mentorship programs and initiating campus-wide tracking programs to find and offer assistance to students in danger of dropping out. In addition, the Madison Plan created a number of outreach initiatives, including school-university partnerships and the Upward Bound program, workshops for school teachers, and summer campus programs for disadvantaged students before and after admission. Finally, the Madison Plan required that an "Ethnic Studies" course would be required for every student pursuing a degree on the Madison campus and demanded the creation of new campus institutes and the hiring of more minority faculty members to support these new course offerings.

In 1998, ten years after the Design for Diversity had been formally adopted by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, planning began for another comprehensive document that would centralize campus diversity planning for the next ten years. The result, Plan 2008, again required all System campuses to submit formal plans to meet the goals of Plan 2008 within one year of its adoption. Planning for the UW-Madison campus began late that year with the intention of presenting ideas to the campus community and gathering feed back in early 1999 and drafting the final version of the plan that summer. Plan 2008 created a number of campus initiatives including an annual campus forum on diversity issues and outreach programs like the Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE). Plan 2008 echoed many of the same concerns and recommendations espoused first in the Holey Report and then again in Design for Diversity and the Madison Plan.

This collection includes no known access restrictions.

Collection materials may be subject to laws governing rights. Researchers are solely responsible for determining the rights status of the materials they use. Permission may be required for some uses such as publication or reproduction.

Former accession 1992/060. Former accession 1993/057. Former accession 2009/060.

Accession 1992/060 transferred by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Accademic Affairs, 1992-09-15. Accession 1993/057 transferred by Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor, 1993-08-06. Accession 2009/060 gift of Bernice Durand, 2009-02-12.

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The Campus Diversity Initiative records are primarily composed of official and personal documents created during the creation and implementation of the Design for Diversity, Madison Plan, and Plan 2008 initiatives, all of which were broad projects carried out by the University of Wisconsin which sought to increase campus diversity and improve the campus climate for marginalized people.

Between 1986 and 1988 both the University of Wisconsin System Administration and the University of Wisconsin-Madison began to devote significant resources to a number of diversity related goals. Among these were: increasing the proportion of students from marginalized groups in incoming freshman classes and retaining those students through to graduation, increasing the proportion of faculty from marginalized groups, increasing the availability and impact of financial aid resources for marginalized students, founding and developing programs for outreach to Wisconsin communities, and redeveloping undergraduate curricula to promote diverse perspectives and subject matter.

This collection includes material from the University of Wisconsin System, but is primarily composed of documents the from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The System and Madison had separate parallel diversity initiatives underway in the late 1980s with the System's plan going by the name "Design for Diversity" and Madison's project going by "The Madison Plan".

Design for Diversity was divided into several committees including the Committee on the status of Minority Issues and the Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council. The collection materials on Design for Diversity are primarily correspondence from a wide variety of administrators including then System President Kenneth A. Shaw and a number of UW System administrators. The plan required that each Chancellor within the UW System would, within one year, submit a comprehensive plan for the institutional improvement of minority education. These processes are documented in the collection chiefly by the correspondence of the Chancellors, President, and other administrators as well as copies of the reports submitted by constituent institutions and other planning documentation. Documentation in this collection regarding the Design for Diversity primarily covers the early stages of its conception in 1987 through the early round of institutional reports in 1989.

Documentation surrounding the Madison Plan is much broader given that offices which contributed material to the collection were primarily concerned with the UW-Madison campus. Though Design for Diversity in some ways provided context for the Madison Plan, the atmosphere around diversity planning on the Madison campus during the late 1980s was driven by a number of high profile incidents of racial bias on campus which generated national press attention. Madison Plan documentation, as a result, covers not just planning documentation and administrative reports but also a great deal of contextual materials including subject files on fraternity and race-relations incidents, material on student conduct policies, and responses from student and staff special interest groups.

Madison Plan records themselves cover a wide variety of goals, standards, and programs. These include: student financial assistance, student recruitment, student retention, outreach and partnership programs, faculty and academic staff recruitment and retention, undergraduate curriculum development (including the imposition of an ethnic studies requirement for all students on campus), the creation of the campus Multicultural Student Center, and maintenance of a non-discriminatory campus environment. Each of these programs has its own administrative committees, many of which are represented in the collection by reports and proceedings created between 1988 and 1990.

Finally, Plan 2008 was intended to be a continuation of the Design for Diversity. It entered its initial planning stages in 1997 with the intent of presenting the plan to the campus community in 1998, ten years after the initial adoption of the Design for Diversity, and having the plan guide diversity practices on campus for the ensuing decade.

Plan 2008 documentation came to the UW Archives primarily through the personal and professional papers of Professor Bernice Durand, who co-chaired the Steering Committee on Diversity with Associate Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows. As a result the documentation, though still capturing some broader context, is dependant of Professor Durand's activities including a good deal of her correspondence, documentation of the activities of the University Committee and the Faculty Senate. Durand was involved in more specific sections of the Plan 2008's planning and execution as well, including the subcommittee on on Campus Climate, working groups on curriculum, graduate and professional schools, human resources, and undergraduate student issues. Box 4 of the collection is entirely drafts of Plan 2008 annotated by Durand and others. Durand had already been on campus at the time of the original Madison Plan in the early 1980s and as a result her papers include some documentation of the implementation of that plan including copies of the finalized plan and of followup reports.

While acting as the UW-Archives Student Historian in Residence, T.J. Braxton created "A Closer Look At UW-Madison's Campus-Wide Diversity Initiatives", a historical work connecting the diversity intitiatives documented in this collection to historical context and taking stock of thier efficacy continued relevance. This work is avalable through Minds@UW at the following link: https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/81854/Braxton-TJ_A-Closer-Look-at-UW-Madisons-Campus-Wide-Diversity-Initiatives.pdf

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Box [89125678078]   1   folder 1	Academic Staff and Classified Staff hiring
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 2	Academic Staff and Classified Staff separations
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 3	Academic Staff - promotions
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 4	Academic Summer Collegiate Experience
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 5	Advanced Opportunity Program
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 6	American Indian Awareness Week
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 7	American Indian Initiative
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 8	Asian American minority status
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 9	Business Learning Center
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 10	Center for Health Sciences - Pre College
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 11	Classified Staff (1)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 12	Classified Staff (2)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 13	Classified Staff (3)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 14	College Student Undergraduate Summer Program
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 15	Curriculum
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 16	Curriculum - Enhancement
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 17	Curriculum - Enhancement (2)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 18	Design for Diversity - Committee on the Status of Minority Faculty and Staff
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 19	Design for Diversity - Budget
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 20	Desgin for Diversity - Financial Incentive Program
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 21	Design for Diversity - Implementation
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 22	Design for Diversity - James Sulton
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 23	Desing for Diversity - Kenneth Shaw
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 24	Design for Diversity - Minority Doctoral Fellows Support
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 25	Design for Diveristy - Public Hearings
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 26	Design for Diversity - Reports
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 27	Desgin for Diversity - student government
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 28	Design for Diversity - Subcommittee on Minority Issues
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 29	Design for Diversity - Undergraduate Teaching Imporvement Council
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 30	Diversity DIN
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 31	East Madison Community and Bootstrap - new initiatives
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 32	Employee Conduct
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 33	Ethnic Studies Program
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 34	Ethnic Studies Requirement
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 35	Ethnic Studies Requirement - College of Letters and Sciences
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 36	Faculty
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 37	Faculty exchange programs
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 38	Faculty recruiting
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 39	FASTrack - financial assitance reports
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 40	Fiji/ZBT
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 41	Final Draft 2/89, release, summaries, and contact list
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 42	Graduate and Professional fellowships
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 43	Graduate and Professional fellowships
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 44	Housing - Center for Cultural Enrichment
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 45	Interinstitutional Linkage Program
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 46	Internships/Professional Development
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 47	Joint UW System-State Historical Society Project
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 48	John Wesley Lawlah Scholarship - Medical School
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 49	Kappa Sigma incident
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 50	Library - Multi-Cultural Outreach Program
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 51	Madison Plan - Chancellor's Madison Minority Community Advisory Committee
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 52	Madison Plan - Holley Report comparison
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 53	Madison Plan - Internal Audit
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 54	Madison Plan - News/Press
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 55	Madison Plan - pre-college programs
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 56	Madison Plan - Progress Report : One Year Later
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 57	Madison Plan - Progress Reports
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 58	Madison Plan - Sequel
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 59	Madison Plan - Summaries
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 60	Medical Genetics - Institute for Genetic Education
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 61	Mentor programs
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 62	Mentoring
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 63	Mentoring Academic Staff
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 64	Minority Coalition
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 65	Minority Faculty Conference
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 66	Minority Hiring
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 67	Minority Information Center
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 68	Minority/Disadvantaged Retreats
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 69	Minority Merit Scholarship (1)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 70	Minority Merit Scholarship (2)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 71	Miscellaneous notes
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 72	Mulitcultural Center (1)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 73	Multicultural Center (2)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 74	Multicultural Council
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 75	New initiatives after Plan
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 76	New student orientation SOAR
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 77	Next Newsletter
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 78	Non-Discriminatory Environment (1)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 79	Non-Discriminatory Environment (2)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 80	Outreach
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 81	Outreach - Discussion Leader Guides
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 82	Partnership - Madison school and community (1)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 83	Partnership - Madison school and community (2)
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 84	Partnerships - Chancellors Community Advisory Committee
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 85	Partnerships - Medical genetics and Wisconsin Indian Reservations
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 86	Partnerships - Midvale and Lincoln
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 87	Phi Gamma Delta incident correspondence
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 88	Phi Gamma Delta incident letters from the public
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 89	Phi Gamma Delta incident news/press
Box [89125678078]   1   folder 90	Phi Gamma Delta incident notes
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 1	Pre-College Program
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 2	Pre-College Program - Institute for Multicultural Science Education
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 3	Pre-College - Teachers
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 4	Pre-College - Teachers Accademic Institutional Partnership Program
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 5	Pre-College - Upward Bound
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 6	Race Relations - Dean of Students Office
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 7	Race Relations - Press Clippings
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 8	Race relations - Proposals
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 9	Race Relations - Steering Group
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 10	Race Relations - University of Wisconsin System
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 11	Race Relations - 1987 Minority Retreat
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 12	Reaching Out - Material Science/Minority Colleges/Industry
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 13	Reaching Out - Wisconsin Alumni Association
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 14	Recruiting and Retention
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 15	Partnerships - Social Work and Social Services Agency
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 16	School of Business Tutorial Program
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 17	School of Education and Milwaukee Public Schools
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 18	Sigma Alpha Epsilon incident
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 19	South Madison Neighborhood Center
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 20	Spectrum - UW System newsletter on minority issues
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 21	Spousal hire checklist
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 22	Student conduct
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 23	Student recruitment pre college
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 24	Student/Faculty exchange
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 25	Student Orientation
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 26	Tables - Degrees Conferred
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 27	Undergrad Recuitment
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 28	University of Wisconsin System - Annual Report/Achievment Goals
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 29	Upward Bound and community involvement
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 30	Video spot campaign project
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 31	Wisconsin Alumni Association - Report on Minority Affairs
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 32	Women of Color in the Curriculum
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 33	Wunk Sheek - Native American Student Organization
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 34	Zeta Beta Tau incident correspondence
Box [89125678060]   2   folder 35	Zeta Beta Tau incident protests
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 1	Accredidation
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 2	Admissions
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 3	Associated Students of Madison
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 4	Bernice Durand Correspondence
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 5	Bernice Durand Notes
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 6	Campus events
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 7	Charts, tables, data
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 8	Email correspondence, 1998, February - September
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 9	Email correspondence, 1998, October - December
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 10	Email correspondence, 1999, January - February
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 11	Email correspondence, 1999, March - February
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 12	Email correspondence, 2000
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 13	Email correspondence, 2001, January - April
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 14	Ethnic Studies
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 14a	Faculty Senate
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 15	Families and Schools Together (FAST)
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 16	Ford Foundation Grant- Comparative Ethinc Studies
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 17	Grants
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 18	Madison Plan/Design for Diversity - updates
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 19	Limited-term employees - labor organization
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 20	Madison Plan, the - Final
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 21	Madison Plan, the - Followup reports
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 22	McNair Scholars program
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 23	Madison Planners
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 24	Meeting agendas and minutes
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 25	Milwaukee Commitment
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 26	News/Press
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 27	Outreach
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 28	People Program
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 29	Plan 2008 Campus Forum
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 30	Plan 2008 Coalition
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 31	Plan 2008 - Budget, state relations
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 32	Plan 2008 - Budgets
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 33	Plan 2008 - Goals matrix
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 34	Plan 2008 - Project management / structure
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 35	Plan 2008 - Student lead initiatives
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 36	Plan 2008 - Subcommittee on Campus Climate
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 37	Quality Through Diversity
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 38	Recruitment
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 39	Responces, statements, resolutions
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 40	Schools and Colleges - March 2001 Update
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 41	Secondary literature
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 42	Steering Committee on Minority Affairs Final Report
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 43	Transparencies February 2, 1998
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 44	Univeristy of Arizona - Diversity Action Plan
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 45	University of Wisconsin System
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 46	W. Lee Hansen - Criticism of Plan 2008
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 47	Working Group: Curriculum
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 48	Working Group: Graduate and Professional Issues
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 49	Working Group: Human Resources
Box [89125678052]   3   folder 50	Working Group: Undergraduate Student Issues
Box [89125678037]   4   folder 1	Plan 2008 drafts - December 1998
Box [89125678037]   4   folder 2	Plan 2008 drafts - January 1999
Box [89125678037]   4   folder 3	Plan 2008 drafts - February 1999
Box [89125678037]   4   folder 4	Plan 2008 drafts - March 1999 (1 of 2)
Box [89125678037]   4   folder 5	Plan 2008 drafte - March 1999 (2 of 2)
Box [89125678037]   4   folder 6	Plan 2008 drafts - April 1999
Box [89125678037]   4   folder 7	Plan 2008 drafts - undated