(NAME-MCE) Asking for MORE

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Asking for MORE 
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Keri Garrett and 14 other students  sat around a table at the Office of 
Admissions Wednesday eating pizza. After  they filled up, they started making calls 
to prospective IU students and  encouraged them to make Indiana their top 
choice. 

Minorities only make  up 7 percent of the campus population, according to the 
IU Factbook, and  Garrett, the student director of Multicultural Outreach 
Recruitment Educators,  is working to change that.

“I joined to be involved in something positive  (that) would lead to change 
on campus,” Garrett said.

MORE was first  created by the University as part of its mission to increase 
diversity, said  Charleston Sanders, director of MORE. The organization is an 
outreach program  for the Admissions Office, Sanders said.

Its original and existing goal  is to increase the population of enrolled 
minority students at IU, junior and  MORE member Erin Norton said.

Norton said she joined MORE because she  wanted to make sure students who are 
interested in enrolling at IU know the  truth about minorities on campus.

In order to increase the number of  minority students, the organization and 
its 33 members participate in workshops,  call-a-thons, student panels, 
overnight visits and various on- and off-campus  programs, Sanders said. These events 
are meant to showcase IU to prospective  minority students.

In order to recruit students, the MORE student  ambassadors will make about 
1,000 calls a year, Sanders said.

The student  ambassadors are given a general script to help them start up 
conversations with  the potential IU students and answer any questions they might 
have, Garrett  said. 

MORE focuses on students with ethnic backgrounds such as African  American, 
Asian, Hispanic and Native American, Sanders said.

MORE holds  monthly meetings and uses part of the meeting as a call-out to 
minority students  at IU, Garrett said. During the meeting, student ambassadors 
call minority high  school seniors who have been admitted to IU and invite the 
students to  participate in MORE activities in order to become acquainted 
with the  University. 

Sanders said the success of the organization is best  exemplified by its 
members. 

“Many people that have been in MORE have  been touched by it,” Sanders  said.
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