Anybody else seen this? University study released.

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Enhance our communications and marketing strategies to ensure that race and inclusiveness are a central part of our messages. Specific actions that would support this recommendation include the following:

a. Promote “The University of Mississippi” along with “Ole Miss”
b. Increase the promotion of “Rebel Bear” as the mascot
c. Conduct studies to learn more about how underrepresented groups perceive the University of Mississippi’s commitment to diversity and equality; outcomes should drive outreach and marketing effort.
d. A range of UM stakeholders — including faculty, staff and students — should review print materials (e.g., recruitment, promotion, etc.) and offer suggestions for bolstering the presence of language and images that affirm our shared values related to an open and diverse community.
e. Determine how the Creed and other written traditions will be viewed and used.
f. Create a multicultural report to be distributed each semester that highlights diverse alumni giving and diverse student organizations’ activities.

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Conduct a review of all of our divisive symbols.
Campus symbols, particularly those that became associated with the university during Jim Crow segregation and the resistance to civil rights (e.g., the Confederate monument, Rebels, Colonel Rebel/Colonel Reb and Dixie) are a source of contention among different members of the university community. UM should strive to support symbols that represent all on our
campus .

Specific actions that would support this recommendation include the following:
a. Rename Vardaman Hall; consider renaming it for an individual whose admission to the university was blocked because of the color of his or her skin.
b. Consider renaming Paul B. Johnson Ballroom, and review other halls’ names

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