CLU Dean Focuses on Multicultural Mix
Enhancing multicultural unity at Cal Lutheran University is a top priority for the school’s new dean of students.
William Rosser, vice president for student affairs, said the multicultural office he oversees both recruits new students and tries to ensure that current students remain at CLU. Minorities comprise about 25% of the school’s student population of 1,509.
“The programs we will institute at Cal Lutheran will help . . . people learn about and interact with people of different cultures than their own,” he said.
Details of his plan will be worked out in the coming months, said Rosser, who assumed the post July 15.
Rosser came to Cal Lutheran after serving 11 years in the same capacity at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. He said programs implemented there in 1993 produced impressive results within three years: Latino enrollment jumped from 20 students to 60 while the number of Asian students rose from 50 to 83.
He was also the associate dean of students at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.
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