Preliminary numbers from University Budgeting & Institutional Research indicate that Miami reached  from 8.7% minority enrollment by Fall 2001, approaching its goal of attracting 10.00% by 2003. The University continues working to boost minority enrollment by:

• Developing the "I am Miami" campaign, which uses video, billboards, web sites, and advertisements to market Miami to minority students
• Exploring Miami Preview Day, held for incoming minority students
• Participating in 22 graduate recruitment fora in 13 states and Puerto Rico, including visits to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Establishing partnerships to recruit graduate students from the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Florida A&M University, and Tennessee State University
• Co-sponsoring a college fair with the Community Center and African-American Ministerial Alliance
• Inviting students and teachers from predominantly minority high schools in urban areas to participate in Miami-funded visitation trips

Many units within the University also seek to attract minority students by working with minority students in K-12 environments. Among the efforts that exemplify Miami's commitment to attracting minority students are:

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, providing summer internships in biological sciences and chemistry for high school minorities
• Bridges to Science program for underprivileged students
• Math and Statistics Department's summer workshop for minority and female students to support their obtaining advanced degrees in the sciences
• Psychology department tutoring program at Bethel AME Church
• School of Business Administration's Buck Rodgers Leadership program targeting students from lower-income and multicultural areas
• The ESTEEM program offered by of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) to attract minority 7^th and 8^th graders to study math, science and engineering
• The Underground Railroad project, co-operatively supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, National Underground Railroad Center, and University Libraries, works with students from Cincinnati Public School's Hughes Center to research and create web sites about African-American history in Southwestern Ohio
• Partnering with local schools, including School-to-Work, Career Based Initiative Programs (formerly known as O.W.A. and O.W.E.), and Developmentally Disabled programs at Talawanda High School and the D. Russell Lee Joint Vocational School in Hamilton

To attract and retain minority students, Miami University is:

• Working with Minority Affairs to target minority institutions to recruit students
• Establishing Multicultural Recruitment Program (MRP), in which minority alumni recruit minority students

As a result of these efforts, minority presence in the Miami University student body has increased by 17% from 1999/2000 to 2000/2001 as a result of these recruitment/retention efforts. Additional examples of accomplishments in this area:

• 24% of Music's Fall 2001 class are minority, and nearly 50% of all its applicants were international
• 12% of Education and Allied Professions (EAP)'s incoming graduate students are people of color.

While these examples are heartening, they indicate that Miami has not fully achieved its goal of creating a student body with a 10.00% minority enrollment. The achievement of individual units, departments, and schools which have exceed the goal is offset at the university level by other areas which have fallen markedly below the goal level.  Both retention and recruitment need to be seriously reinforced in certain areas.  We look forward to continuing efforts to attain and exceed the stated  expectations.