University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
PAE-8: Support Programs for Underrepresented Groups

The Multicultural Resource Center (MCRC) at UW-Stevens Point is designed to meet the specific needs of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. The MCRC provides students with academic and social opportunities, seeking to encourage the success of UWSP's Native American, Asian American, African American, and Hispanic American students. To achieve this objective, the Multicultural Affairs staff continues to: -Conduct a variety of programs aimed primarily at the enrichment, basic attraction (precollege programs), and retention of multicultural students who are citizen minorities or permanent immigrants -Coordinate cultural awareness activities with student organizations -Support cultural awareness activities for multicultural students http://www.uwsp.edu/dca/Pages/MC-Resource-Center.aspx

Inclusive Excellence is a planning process intended to help each UW System institution establish a comprehensive and well-coordinated set of systemic actions that focus specifically on fostering greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability at every level of university life. The central premise of Inclusive Excellence holds that UW System colleges and universities need to intentionally integrate their diversity efforts into the core aspects of their institutions—such as their academic priorities, leadership, quality improvement initiatives, decision-making, day-to-day operations, and organizational cultures—in order to maximize their success. The University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE) serves as a UW Systemwide catalyst for scholarly research and curricular innovation in racial and ethnic studies. The primary purpose is to support faculty, staff, and students through a variety of grant programs, conferences and events, publications, and other related scholarly activities designed to enhance inquiry into the phenomena of race and ethnicity. Four categories of grant support are being made available by the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity : Research Curriculum Development Campus Activities FACULTY DIVERSITY RESEARCH AWARDS – To provide released time and research support for categories of individuals who are tenure-track faculty members for their scholarly research and writing, thus enhancing their opportunities for achieving tenure.

Inclusive Excellence is a planning process intended to help each UW System institution establish a comprehensive and well-coordinated set of systemic actions that focus specifically on fostering greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability at every level of university life. The central premise of Inclusive Excellence holds that UW System colleges and universities need to intentionally integrate their diversity efforts into the core aspects of their institutions—such as their academic priorities, leadership, quality improvement initiatives, decision-making, day-to-day operations, and organizational cultures—in order to maximize their success.