Good evening.  I hope everyone is having a good week and staying dry.

I want to start out by saying that the Multi-Cultural Visitation Program went off without a hitch, and was a success.  I want to thank Commissioner Walker for helping me set up and for doing the resource round up, and Commissioner Wemer and Fardy for their help with the Rap Session.

As I said last week I am still looking for locations of the Barber Shop/Beauty Salon.  If any student has any ideas do not hesitate to tell me.  I have received some ideas from some students which I will be passing on to Dr. Geiger in the coming days.

I am still waiting the release of 2005-2006 retention rate data from the Office of Institutional equity.  Once I have this I plan to compare it to the retention rates of other MAC schools and the types of programs they have going on for diversity and retention, so I can see if we can implement any of their programs to raise our retention rates.  Brandon is currently researching MAC schools and is awaiting some replies from certain schools.

I am starting to look at when certain student organizations meet so that I can formally invite them to participate in the diversity and retention forum to happen in January.  I hope to have every invitation and an initial response back as to whether they will be participating or not before finals week begins.

I hope everyone has a good week, and End of Report.

Michael Adeyanju