UCLA is part of the University of California system which has a Human Resource Management department which emphasizes diversity in employment throughout the university system. In 1998, the Chancellor's Advisory Group on Diversity helped to advance the effort to sustain and promote campus diversity (CUCSA, 2005). The work is considered essential in advancing "the widely shared purposes of making UCLA a premier institution noted for the quality, richness, and academic integrity of is programs and its vibrancy as a campus community."
Diversity is an indispensable element of academic excellence at UCLA, and the institution is fundamentally committed to including and integrating individuals from different groups, defined by characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, disability, and intellectual outlook within the campus community (CUCSA, 2005). To create a rich academic experience and intellectual and cultural environment for everyone, this concern extends ro genuine participation.
In fact, a Diversity Recruitment Summit is scheduled for September 15, 2006 (CUCSA, 2005). The goals of the summit are to: increase faculty diversity; to research diversity issues; offer workshops to assist librarians and others to serve a culturally diverse population and consider cultural diversity in all information institutions; assist students by working with employers and making information available to them; adopting cultural diversity as a theme for the department and identifying ways and activities which can reflect this; and to discuss retention and recommendations from the Diversity Recruitment and Mentoring Committee.
UCLA believes it has a special responsibility to use its teaching, research and service resources to make life better for those living in the Los Angeles area (CUCSA, 2005). UCLA works together with the city of Los Angeles to help solve diversity ...