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Organizational Accomplishments
Bus has remained consistent in the provision of enriching experiences and assuring the continuing development of a progressive environment which is conducive to encouraging success among black students in their quest to obtain a quality and meaningful education. The annual Renaissance Ball and Ebony Achievement Awards ceremony attest to this. Nowhere is this more evident than the work BUS did to increase the numbers of black undergraduate and graduate students enrolled, but also the numbers of black faculty and staff hired at the University. It must be recognized, and indeed celebrated, that when BUS argued for the creation of the Institute and the Department, they were ultimately creating jobs for forty-seven full and part-time individuals - white and black students, faculty and staff. At least this was the number of faculty and staff DPAS hired in 1994. Taken a step further, they were creating jobs for eminently larger numbers of African Americans on the Kent State University campus at large.
The Black United Students have been, as pointed out earlier, the initiators of the process that created not only the Department's academic programs and jobs, but also several institutions and programs on the campus. For no other organization, including the Undergraduate Student Senate, has created an academic department, a learning development center, and an organization as important as BUS Line, a dormitory security force now a part of Residence Services' Campus Security. What is singularly remarkable is that all of these BUS-initiated programs have remained viable for twenty or thirty years. Having done so, BUS has become a standout among all student organizations on this campus and in the nation-at-large for that matter.
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