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College of Education
■ The proposals considered
off-campus facilities and
changing the names of majors
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
The College of Education will be
hiring six new tenure-track profes
sors and is proposing structural
changes in upcoming months. Fri
day, Dean Martin Kaufman an
nounced some of the proposed
changes he and his colleagues have
been working on, including finding
new locations for classrooms and re
naming majors.
There are three areas that prompt
change, Kaufman said. 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.
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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
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behind closed doors, not allowing
for student groups’ input.
MEChA Co-Director Sylvia Gil
said the diversity interns never con
tacted MEChA, and there has been
no communication about projects
on which the interns were working.
Gil said the work of the diversity in
terns should not be a secret, and
members of student groups should
be able to contribute. 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.
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