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 MARSHALL ROSE has worked professionally and in his community on diversity, equity and associated issues, for most of his life. For the past seventeen years, he has held senior administrative responsibility for monitoring diversity and equal opportunity compliance in two higher education institutions. He is currently Director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Immigration Services at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He came to his present position in 1990 from Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where he had been the University’s Affirmative Action Officer from 1986 to 1990. From 1980 to 1986 he was an Assistant Director in the Career Planning and Placement Office for Bowling Green State University. Prior to joining the Placement Office, he was the EEO and Public Relations Officer for the Economic Opportunity Planning Association of Greater Toledo, Inc. from 1978 to 1980.
At BGSU, he has served on a number of important University administrative committees, including the President’s Advisory Council, Equal Opportunity Committee, Human Relations Commission, Diversity Training Coordinating Committee, Committee Against Sexual Offenses, Sexual Harassment Training Task Force, Project
F.E.E.D. (Future Educators Encouraging Diversity), and the Department of Social Work Advisory Council. He also serves as the advisor to
B.A.M.N.
Mr. Rose has been active in his professional association, the American Association for Affirmative Action
(AAAA), holding many elected or appointed leadership positions nationally and in his region. These include: serving several terms as a member of the AAAA national board of directors, election as 2nd Vice President, chairing the national legislative committee, serving as a member of the 2002 national conference planning committee, and being elected to several terms as Regional Director and Alternate Regional Director for the Association’s Region V. Region V includes the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Mr. Rose has also been actively involved at the local and state levels in promoting issues of equity, opportunity and diversity. He has been a principal coordinator and organizer of many multi-institutional initiatives involving Northwest Ohio higher education organizations. Among the most notable cooperative ventures he initiated was sponsorship of “Conversations About Race: Higher Education and the American Dilemma”. This five part series of presentations and seminars was jointly hosted by Bowling Green State University, The University of Toledo, The Medical College of Ohio and Owens Community College. The series was sponsored as a part of President Clinton’s national dialogue on race. Other initiatives have included, sponsorship of workshops, presentations, or teleconferences on such topics as sexual harassment and diversity in higher education. For the past ten years, he has played a leading role in organizing and sponsoring “The State of the State”, an annual statewide conference evaluating issues of equity, opportunity, and diversity in Ohio. STATE X will be held March 24, 2005 in Dayton, Ohio.
In addition to being very active professionally, Mr. Rose has a long history of involvement in community efforts seeking to promote diversity, and to further inclusion and representation of historically excluded groups. He has served for many years on the board of Fair Housing Opportunities of Northwest Ohio, Inc., the Fair Housing agency board for Toledo and Northwest Ohio. As a member of the board, he has held a number of leadership roles, including president, vice president, and chair of the Nominations and Personnel committees. Additionally, he is vice chair of the Toledo Rainbow Coalition, and sits on the board of the Self Expression Teen Theater for Academic and Personal Excellence. He was also identified by Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Northwest Ohio to assist with a special outreach effort to find mentors for African American youth. He was a member of the Board of Community Relations’ Council on Diversity in Employment (CODE) and a member of the City of Toledo’s Affirmative Action Steering Committee. He served as the Chair of the Million Man March Local Organizing Committee for Toledo and Northwest Ohio, and former Director and trustee with Save Our Children, Inc. of Toledo, under whose auspices he hosted the weekly WKLR radio program,
“Rolemodels”.
Mr. Rose has done numerous presentations and speeches on diversity, affirmative action, EEO and associated topics. He has also done training for educational, nonprofit and private industry organizations in such areas as diversity, race relations, and sexual harassment. A few of these organizations include, the Michigan State Affirmative Action Association, Indiana Affirmative Action Association, Toledo American Red Cross, Bluffton College, Henry Ford Community College, City of Toledo, The University of Toledo, Ohio Half-Way House Association, Midwest Association of College Admissions Officers, National Basketball Development League, Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority, Paul Quinn College, Wright State University, Western Illinois University, Bowling Green Senior High School, The Saginaw News, and the Monroe County Independent School District. He is also routinely invited to speak and or participate in many programs and services honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as celebrations and activities commemorating African American History.
Mr. Rose has been featured in the 1998-99 edition of BGSU’s OUR TOWN, YOUR TOWN, a publication of Student Publications and Student Affairs that is distributed widely throughout the Bowling Green community. His leadership contributions have also been recognized by his induction into Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society. Most recently, his community contributions were recognized by his designation as “Volunteer of the Year” by the Toledo chapter of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals for his commitment and work with the Toledo Fair Housing Board.
He is a graduate of Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, where he received an Associates of Arts degree. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work from Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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