DePaul University
PAE-8: Support Programs for Underrepresented Groups

Highlighted are a few of programs designed to assist diverse students. OMSS: The Office of Multicultural Student Success seeks to cultivate student success for students of color, low-income college students, or first generation college students through sustained development programming, financial resources, and advocacy. Center for Intercultural Programs: The Center for Intercultural Programs promotes artistic expression and intellectual inquiry that challenges students to explore all aspects of their culture. The Center develops programs and services that empower students to learn about the multitude of ways that their intersecting identities shape their understanding of their world and to confront systems of oppression and to promote social justice by celebrating and affirming the dignity of every member of our university. The Center also supports and cultivates the leaders of ethnic and cultural student organizations to understand their important role in building a student-centered multicultural community at DePaul. Office of Diversity Education: The Office of Diversity Education seeks to create a DePaul campus community where students, faculty, and staff are active participants in understanding, embracing, and modelling an awareness of, and humility towards, diversity as members of an intercultural and global community. Student Support Services: Student Support Services (SSS) program is to provide enhanced academic and other support services to undergraduate DePaul students who are low-income, first-generation and students with disabilities to guide them through the timely completion of a baccalaureate degree. The goal of SSS is to increase the college retention and graduation rates of its participants and help students make the transition from one level of higher education to the next. LGBTQ Office: The LGBTQ Office promotes, fosters, and supports a campus environment that is inclusive and supportive of student diversity, specifically as this relates to sexual orientation/attraction/identity and gender expression/identity. LGBTQ offers a range of services, programs, and events that reflect the needs and interests of LGBTQ students at DePaul PLUS Program: The Productive Learning Strategies (PLuS) Program at DePaul University is a year-round comprehensive program designed to meet the needs of DePaul University students with specific learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders. PLuS served a total of 216 students during 2005-2006 academic year and it has been providing services to DePaul University students with Learning Diabilites and/or Attention Deficit Disorders since the 1984-1985 academic year.

Academic Affairs, Office of Faculty Development: The Office of Faculty Development serves to develop faculty awareness of DePaul's mission and diverse academic culture; maximize faculty and staff use of internal and external resources and grant opportunities; and to ensure compliance with research standards and regulations. Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity: The Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity is designed to provide resources and organizational integration to effectively coordinate and develop a wide spectrum of services, initiatives, and policies. An essential component of the diversity effort at DePaul is the commitment to diversity as a core value of the institution. The Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity is also responsible for coordinating the implementation of Goal 3 "DePaul will be a Model of Diversity for VISION Twenty12" As such, in collaboration with Academic Affairs that have created a Faculty Search Guide, A Faculty Exit Interview Process, and a Faculty Success Series to assist in the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty.

Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity works with Human Resources, Faculty Council and the President's Diversity Council Staff Committee to ensure effective practices of the recruitment and retention of Staff at DePaul. http://www.depaul.edu/about/diversity/index.asp http://studentaffairs.depaul.edu/cip/index.html http://studentaffairs.depaul.edu/omss/ http://www.depaul.edu/emm/caa/dpsPrograms/sss.asp