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The first he calls a plan change, which occurs when something external affects the school, such as new legislation. The second is life-cycle organizational change, which usually occurs when someone leaves or retires. The third is a crisis change, which is a change prompted by crisis. The search for faculty has al ready beep launched and commit tee members hope to have all six positions filled by this spring to begin work in fall 2000. Students from the Ethnic Diver sity Affairs Committee said they wanted to have representation on all of the hiring committees. They also are working on long- and short term strategies for increasing the number of applicants of color. Another challenge the college faces is finding more space for the expanding school. “We need new space,” said Elaine Jones, assistant dean of management and opera tions. “There is no way to put sug ar on this.” Kaufman pitched the idea of off campus facilities, but the idea was unpopular with audience mem bers who said it would disrupt the sense of community students seek in their educational environment. Because space is limited, the options for expansion of physical space are scarce and the college will have to be flexible. “What you gain on the teeter totter, you lose on the swing,” said Larry Irvin, dean of research and outreach services, quoting a Van Morrison song. Currently the college has three special-education majors. Another proposed change is to have only one, cutting out redundant majors. They also propose changing the term for majorto “area of concentration.” Most of the changes will be small or just a matter of giving something anew name, Kaufman said. The changes reflect the success the college has seen in recent years. “The easiest time to become complacent is when you’re suc cessful,” Kaufman told the audi ence of about 55 students and fac ulty members. He cited nine areas in which the college has been suc cessful in the eight years since he took over as dean. Among the successes was im proved national standings. U.S. News and World Report ranked the college 11th best in the nation, with the special education depart ment coming in sixth. The college has also increased student enrollment and external grant and contract funding. All ideas for improvement are tentative and the plans are “a work in progress,” Kaufman said. Diversity continued from page 1 team is still working on the issues, Jh € & raj —***&&' —***&&‘ '—3*mf8l‘ Featuring “Ayurveda . Herbline Hair *«*"*■% & Skin Products ^W'lftfV - Embroidered Clothing vj* Tapestries Candles Incense ■ And much more! Visit us at the Gateway Mall • 741-7820 —**#&■ —^0 —**#& and members of student groups are still looking for answers to how to make the campus more inviting to diverse students, faculty and staff. Now the goal for student groups and Jay Breslow, who was recently hired as diversity coordinating in tern, is to make these suggestions a reality. The main intention of Breslow, a senior psychology ma jor, is to make sure the suggestions compiled by the summer interns, including plans for improved re cruitment and retention and a University-wide Diversity Institu tion Plan, do not fall under the table. But some student groups and unions are afraid that just might be happening. Many members of student groups and unions do not seem to know that meetings about diversi ty issues are open and student in volvement is encouraged. Appar ently a lack of communication has led numerous student groups to believe the diversity teams work LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS--. 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But she said she understands that the interns work on a difficult task and that communication in this case is not easy. “I would definitely like to have some input into some of the plans they have going on,” said Gil, a sen ior majoring In political science. ASUO Recruitment and Reten tion Coordinator Jason Mak said spreading the word about what the summer interns have accom plished has been difficult because the interns’ positions ended at the end of the summer, making it hard to have continuity in the process and effective communication of the results with student groups. Mak, a senior double-majoring ingeneral science and ethnic stud ies, said he hopes that the recent hiring of Breslow as diversity in tern coordinator will help take care of the communication prob lems that have caused frustration for some student groups. “It is essential that we get the unions involved in these efforts, as well as others such as faculty and other administrators,” Mak said. Mak was one of the summer di versity interns and said only a few student groups and unions appear at the Diversity Steering Commit tee meetings. He also said that stu dent groups and unions have not been formally informed about the interns’ work because the summei intern positions expired at the enc of the summer, although the in terns strongly urged the adminis tration to continue the positions. “That left no one to make sure the work was carried through,’ Mak said. Monica Maipezzi Price, a put) lie relations officer for the Interna tional Students Association, sail she feels frustrated about the ISA’: lack of inclusion in the diversity team’s efforts. She said her sugges tion to include a representativi from the ISA on the Administra five Team for Diversity initially re ceived a positive response but wa not followed through. She said members of the ISi feel left out and do not seem to b considered diverse on this campus “We [the ISA] are not consid « ered in this diversity dialogue, said Price, a junior anthropolog major. “It was interesting for us t learn that diversity does not eque internationalism. ” Executive Assistant Presider David Hubin, an ATD membe said the ISA is represente through Jamila Singleton, the Multicultural Center programs co ordinator who represents all stu dents groups on the ATD. Singleton, a junior majoring in planning, public policy and ad ministration, said the MCC is an umbrella organization for many different multicultural student groups on campus, including the ISA, a representative of which sits on the board of the MCC. She said it is the ISA board representative’s obligation to voice any concerns to make sure she can take these con cerns to the ATD. “Sitting on the board, it is each group’s responsibility to express any concerns they might have on campus,” Singleton said. Hubin said the ATD has been working on achieving the suggestions from the summer diversity interns. “We have taken the recommen dations the summer interns worked on, refined those and moved those to implementation,” Hubin said. He said some goals have already been implemented while others, such as a Web site about diversity, are still in progress. A bias re sponse team, which is designed to help students who feel they are discriminated against, is one of the recommendations that has already become a reality, Hubin said. Lisa Foisy, ASUO Women’s Center director, was the only rep resentative of a group, union or program who said she has been in touch with the efforts of the diver sity team. She said she occasion ally attended meetings regarding the diversity issues, and the diver sity interns have stopped by the office sporadically to exchange in formation. Foisy said the Women’s Center and students on campus will ben efit from the bias response team. She said she hopes that the other i recommendations the diversity ' interns made will be followed through and communication on campus will improve. “We will benefit from broader l collaboration,” she said. ; Russ Weller, a member of the r Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgen dered Alliance, said the diversity 3 interns came to some LGBTA meetings, but so far there has been no communication about con 3 crete ideas. But Weller, a sophomore major ing in journalism, said he is con 3 fident that the diversity team is working on implementing ideas for change, including the creation ” of a hate-crime group. The group / would serve as a resource to vic 3 tims of hate crimes and help them 1 <Jeal with police, professors, the administration and other hurdles t on the way to.recovery. r, “They’re working on it,” he i said. considers changes
