University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross plans to issue a statement addressing the system’s diversity shortcomings.
Students, alumni and faculty from UW-Parkside, UW-Madison and UW-Fond du Lac met with Cross on Thursday. They asked Cross to acknowledge a lack of progress on diversity, create diversity training and re-commit to Plan 2008, which laid out diversity goals calling for enrolling more students of color and boosting their graduation rates.