President Martha Burger has selected an interim Diversity and Inclusion advocate for the university.
Jessica Martinez-Brookes, former director of diversity enrichment programs at the University of Oklahoma, will take on the role.
“I look forward to meeting with individual student organizations, listening to their concerns and ensuring that their voice is heard as OCU continues to build a more diverse and inclusive campus community,” Martinez-Brookes wrote in an email from President Burger to the campus community.
Burger is reinstating the Diversity and Inclusion Council on campus.
The council is setting out to look at how the university is recruiting.
“Oklahoma City University has had a diversity and inclusion task force for the past several years,” said Trae Trousdale, Student Government Association president. “At these smaller meetings of the university council, you’re seeing everything being touched on, from recruitment and how we are going about recruiting our students and scholarships, to how we are going about recruiting staff members and faculty members.”
Trousdale said the council will also touch on the experience of students.
“We’ve got two individuals from student affairs,” Trousdale said. “And then, we also have the director of institutional research and OCU’s chief council.”
Trousdale said the council will be made up of a small power team of people that will best bring their expertise to the realm of student diversity and inclusion.
The OCU Communications Office sent an email to the campus community on Oct. 2.
“Students, faculty and staff can apply to serve on one of the council’s six committees,” it read.
To apply, students can go to the OCU website.
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