Diversity Assignment

1.

Name: (First and last name)

Cavin McCain Madden (Irish-American)

Age:29

Hometown: (where they grew up or what they consider their hometown)

Natchez Mississippi

Position: (job title or their major)

Journalism Major

How long you have been at Ole Miss?

Two Semesters

What is the university’s greatest strength?

“What got me to come her is the Student media center, beauty of the campus. It is a bike friendly place and I enjoy the atmosphere of the SMC.”

What will be the university’s biggest challenge in the 21^st century?

“Jobs are becoming more and more scarce and how will the university train students to go up to the work force.”

University officials put a lot of emphasis on improving diversity and cross-cultural relations on campus. What grade would you give the campus on that issue?

“A “C”, because the university is trying. Its improved quite a bit since the 80s and you can see improvements every day.”

What is the one thing you think needs to be done to improve campus diversity?

Putting death kneel in Col. Reb’s coffin.

2.

Name: (First and last name)

Arvinder Kang

Age: 27

Hometown: (where they grew up or what they consider their hometown)

Punjab, India

Position: (job title or their major)

PHD grad student

How long you have been at Ole Miss?

Since 2005 so six years

What is the university’s greatest strength?

“The fact that the university is trying to open up. It is putting out quite an effort to try to rift the gap and the whole tag that Mississippi isn’t a welcoming state. I think we are trying to bring diversity to the forefront and a culture where academia is above old traditions.”

What will be the university’s biggest challenge in the 21^st century?

“I think there is a lot of work to do for the mater of fact we are away from a big city. It is difficult to keep talent in terms of faculty and bringing in bright students. There are very limited things to do around the university. It is very isolated. We have to walk the extra mile to do things.”

University officials put a lot of emphasis on improving diversity and cross-cultural relations on campus. What grade would you give the campus on that issue?

“I would probably give for effort an 8 out of ten, ground reality is about a 6.5. If you look at it our frats are still mostly separated. There are still groups of people separated. There are issues like.”

What is the one thing you think needs to be done to improve campus diversity?

“I think the first thing is to attract diversity. We need a population that attracts diversity. I have also seen the gap in knowledge of the world with freshman that arrive. We have alcohol training and we should do the same thing with cultures of the world that way any prejudices can be left at the door when arriving.”