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committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Diversity: Students are unprepared
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Ken Lehrman, director of Affir
mative Action and Equal Oppor
tunities at the University, said the
University takes steps to attract
more minority faculty members.
“The primary way we try to en
hance the diversity of the faculty
is through more aggressive re
cruiting to make sure we attract
the attention of quality women
and minority applicants to the
University,” said Lehrman, who
added that OSSHE’s report didn’t
reveal “anything we didn’t al
ready know.”
Lehrman said the University at
tempts to accomplish this goal by
placing job advertisements in
journals and newspapers that
have a wide circulation and at
tract women and minorities.
“What we strive to do is have
an applicant pool that reflects the
availability of quality minority
applicants,” he said.
But Lehrman said that doesn’t
always happen because of the stiff
competition from other universi
ties trying to recruit minorities.
One of the main areas the Univer
sity has trouble competing in is
the amount of salary it can offer,
he said.
“Salaries are probably our
biggest drawback, regardless of
minorities,” he said. “We’re be
low the national average.”
In an attempt to become more
competitive, the provost’s office
developed a program three years
ago that allocates $90,000 to a de
partment that successfully re
cruits a minority member.
That money could be used to
increase the offer or set up a re
search program for the minority
applicant, Lehrman said.
The social science department
would qualify for such a budget
augment because 17.95 percent of
the department’s quality appli
cants are available for tenure po
sitions, but only 8.26 percent of
the faculty are minority members
with tenure or on tenure track,
Lehrman said.
“It’s not only a question of at
tracting and hiring minorities, but
a question of retention,” he said.
"We have to keep them and make
sure they make tenure.”
But regardless of Lehrman’s
reasoning, Gassama said the Uni
versity has yet to supply a rational
explanation as to why the Univer
sity lags in minority hiring.
"There’s all sorts of excuses
and reasons that one can come up
with,” he said, “but the fact still
remains; we just do a bad job ...
There has to be a more regular ex
pression of concern at the highest
levels about this situation and rec
tify it.”
Consuela Zumwalt, a Chicana
planning, public policy and man
agement major, said she hardly
sees anyone who “looks like her”
and has only had two Chicana
professors.
“On a practical level, it’s
known that if there’s a person like
you, you are more at peace to talk
to them,” she said. “If all the pro
fessors are male Caucasians, there
are certain issues I don’t talk to
them about."
Ultimately, students and facul
ty agree that it’s the students who
lose in this situation.
“It's clear that our students are
graduating to a world that’s in
creasingly diverse, and if we don’t
expose students to that diversity,
they will be ill-prepared for the
world they will go into after grad
uation,” Lehrman said.
Gassama echoed Lehrman’s
concerns.
“The fact is that this is a public
institution; we’re trying to teach
students about what could make
America a great society,” he said.
“I think through higher education
we’re able to forge a society, and
having people from diverse back
grounds gives students a sense of
what’s important.”
1996*97 University and OSSHE minority breakdown
Minorities as faculty
?n% --
Percent of all faculty in each discipline ^
OSSHE schools # ^
Eastern Ore. Univ. 0.0 0.0
Ore. tnst. ot Tech. 0.0 0.0
Oregon St. 0.4 0.5
Portland St. 1.8 1.0
Southern Ore. Univ. 0.0 0.0
Univ. of Ore. 1.4 0.6
Western Ore. Univ. 0.6 0.6
1.4 2.7 4.1 93.2 2.7
0.9 2.7 3.6 96.4 0.0
6.3 1.8 9.1 90.4 0.5
4.4 1.0 8.3 75.9 15.8
6.5 3.8 10.3 87.6 2.2
5.7 3.1 10.8 88.5 0.7
1.2 1.2 3.7 92.0 4.3
U.S. figures for Fall 1992
Research 2.7 0.2 6.9 2.2 12.0 88.0
Doctoral 3.1 0.8 6.1 2.5 12.5 87.5
Comprehensive 9.1 0.5 5.1 2.6 17.3 82.7
The graphs below break down by teacher type and the percentage of the minority group that makes up that category
at the University. For example, of all the African-American faculty, 30% are professors, 30% are associate professors,
30% are assistant professors, and 10% instructors.
Percent ot minority professors
Percent of minority assistant professors
Percent of minority associate professors
Percent of minority instructors
SOURCE: OSSHE Public Affairs
MATT GARTON/Emerald