Mission
The Morehead State University Office of Multicultural Student Services is designed to provide a full range of support services for students, faculty, and staff of color. These services include educational, vocational, cultural and social programming support to minority and international students, as well as the Morehead State and Morehead, Kentucky community. The services provided by this department helps to further the University’s plans and goals for a more diversified, yet unified campus community. All of the services provided are predicated on providing the best possible support for the betterment of the faculty, staff and students. The Office of Multicultural Student Services serves as the umbrella for student organizations that help meet the mission of the department. We work closely with The Black Student Coalition, The National Pan-Hellenic Council, The Black Gospel Ensemble, and The Cosmopolitan Club. These organizations help students feel positive, both socially and academically, about their college experience.
The Multicultural Student Services Center is open to all students in a multi-use facility that allows all students on campus numerous activities and services that help foster a well-rounded student and community. The Multicultural Student Services Center offers non-traditional hours, which allow students access to the various services offered in the Center.
Goals
Achieve excellence in student services.
Achieve excellence in student advising.
Achieve excellence in academic programs and their delivery.
Achieve excellence in facilities and campus grounds and their use.
Achieve excellence in extracurricular and co-curricular activities.
Review retention goals, strategies and activities annually.
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Objective I: Achieve excellence in student services.
Strategy A: Ensure that the policies, procedures and programs that are maintained and developed by the Office of Multicultural Student Services are student-centered.
Activities:
Review policies that effect students to ensure that they are student-centered, as appropriate.
Collaborate with other campus units to provide joint programming during each academic year that is targeted to all students, faculty and staff
Support student requests for presentations for class projects.
Administer a student satisfaction survey every year to determine next year's programming.
Strategy B: Enhance communications between Financial Aid Office and students, parents, and the university community.
Activities:
Sponsor forums for multicultural student body to discuss
financial aid issues.
Strategy C: Make the work-study experience a more valuable learning experience for students.
Work with Financial Aid and Graduate Office in providing training to work study students.
Reward seniority within the department by providing students with additional hours.
Establish minimum requirements for work-study performance.
Assessment: Surveys; monitor students denied financial aid and provide evaluation instrument for participant's at programs.
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Objective II: Achieve excellence in student advising.
Strategy A: Enhance the advising function of MSU 101. To the extent staff of the Office of Multicultural Student Services become involved with MSU 101, we will strive to encourage, develop and lead all students to meet with their advisors.
Strategy B: Improve advising for academic programs.
Activities:
Develop a profile on each new student of color based on high school g.p.a., and ACT, etc.
Work with academic advisor in advising multicultural student body.
Strategy C: Improve the tracking of students from entrance to graduation.
Activities:
Identify at-risk students for intervention by monitoring midterm grades.
Refer students, as necessary, to appropriate student service office or administrative office.
Provide feedback to all students with accurate midterm grade reports.
Monitor attendance of at-risk students and initiate appropriate intervention.
Assessment: Compare at-risk student percentage from 1998-99 to that of 1999-00.
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Objective III: Achieve excellence in academic programs and their delivery.
Strategy A: Ensure that academic programs are of the highest quality and that courses are accessible to students.
Activities:
Participate with academic program committees such as undergraduate Curriculum, Black Studies Committee, etc. to ensure that newly developed courses and programs have a multicultural component.
Interact with academic units by providing workshops and being a resource on multicultural issues.
Encourage students who need help with a class to seek tutoring.
Assessment: Personal observation and feedback from students and staff.
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Objective IV: Achieve excellence in facilities and campus grounds and their use.
Strategy A: Improve facility and campus grounds maintenance.
Activities:
Maintain a clean, pleasant and open office environment.
Re-establish the Cross-Cultural House to provide space for multicultural programming, services and student office space.
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Objective V: Achieve excellence in extracurricular and co-curricular activities.
Strategy A: Create a better sense of community among faculty, staff, and students.
Provide diversity training to faculty, staff and students to ensure that campus is inclusive.
Work with Office of Human Resources to recruit and retain faculty, staff and students of color to apply for employment and/or admission to the University.
Continue mentoring students to make every student feel a part of the University.
Strategy B: Increase participation in campus activities with an emphasis on weekend activities and co-curricular activities.
Activities:
Increase access to campus services on weekends.
Work with student-groups to develop planned weekend activities for students.
Develop a Multicultural Student Newsletter to be distributed by campus mail, etc.
Strategy C: Promote the University's identity and image.
Activities:
When asked to participate in area schools multicultural programs promote MSU as a scholarly community.
Promote MSU when asked to participate in community events within service region or in other communities.
Establish every Friday as a "Blue and Gold Day," especially during football and basketball season to foster school spirit amongst faculty, staff and students.
Assessment: Monitor number of requests to present on multicultural issues. Re-establishment of the Cross-Cultural Center for the conduct of weekend programming.
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Objective VI: Review retention goals, strategies and activities annually.
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