Executive Summary

Final Report

• Introduction

  A. About the Panel
  B. Defining the Scope and Language of this Report
  C. Overall Impressions

• Recommendations

  Following are our recommendations, grouped into categories (Physical Safety; Recruitment/Retention of Staff, Faculty, and Students of Underrepresented Groups; Making the University of Maryland a Center of Excellence for Scholarship on Diversity; Enhancing the Curriculum for Diversity; Restructuring the Equity System; From Diversity to Community; Leadership). These, in addition to the sound ideas and goals which are set forth in the University's Strategic Plan (fully endorsed by the President's Diversity Panel), would move us to the third stage.

  A. Physical Safety
  B. Recruitment/Retention of Staff, Faculty, and Students of Underrepresented Groups
  C. Making the University of Maryland a Center of Excellence for Scholarship on Diversity
  D. Enhancing the Curriculum for Diversity
  E. Restructuring the Equity System
  F. From Diversity to Community
  G. Leadership