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Leaders broaden diversity plan
■ New to campus, minority officials challenge what it means
to really be diverse, with no “one-step” solution in sight
Diversity
issues
By Jack Clifford
Oregon Daily Emerald
The year may be 2000, but at
least one person on campus thinks
the University hasn’t left the mid
1970s in regards to offering a di
verse enough environment for
teaching and learning.
“The University of Oregon does
not represent the rest of the world
and my concern is that the stu
dents are not getting their money’s
worth in terms of a well-rounded
education,” Multicultural Director
Erica Fuller
said.
Fuller said,
that the Uni
versity admin
istration uses
the term “di
versity” to deal
with specific
issues and in
dividuals, in
stead of ap
proaching it as a far-reaching
concept. Besides that, Fuller
added, the time for the University
to be on the same page as the rest of
the world has long passed.
Diversity, she said, is “not some
thing to be discussed anymore, it’s
something that exists and now it’s
about preparing for the reality of
the world and the University of
Oregon is about 25 years behind in
that reality.”
Fuller, whose most recent work
in this field was at the University
of Florida, started at the MCC in
mid-July. Mark Tracy, assistant
dean for diversity programs, and
Chicora Martin, director of the Les
bian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
Educational and Support Services,
also arrived at the University with
in the past two months and the
trio’s perception of the administra
•tion’s dedication to multicultural
ism is not a positive one. However,
they are not shying away from the
challenge of slaying the past.
“It’s not going to be a one-step,
one-shop solution,” Tracy said.
“It’s not like you can go to the store
and pick out the black problem,
buy it and then it will be solved.
It’s not like we can go get a black
professor, a black administrator
and a black coach and then, now
we’re diverse and the black situa
tion is dealt with.”
Tracy, who came to Oregon from
Ohio in mid-July, also stressed that
addressing the idea of privilege at
the University is crucial to tackling
and solving these problems. He said
that administrators and the majority
culture tend to want convenient
definitions when confronted with
discussions about diversity.
“Breaking down those majority
privileges is not going to be a fun
and easy experience,” he said. “It’s
going to be a somewhat painful ex
perience, because we’re going to
have to step back and say ‘Why do
I need to change?’”
University President Dave Frohn
mayer acknowledged that there is a
lot of work to do on diversity, but he
said there has been decades of work
directed at changing the campus cli
mate and the next step is to broad
en the base of people working on
achieving that goal.
“Students are growing up in a
more diverse world than any other
experience in American history,”
Frohnmayer said. “Although Ore
gon has been relatively homoge
neous ethnically and culturally,
that is changing very rapidly and
we need to be ahead of that.”
Part of that diverse world is the
multi-dynamic aspect of students,
said Martin, who left Florida State
University in mid-August to take
the LGBTESS position. She wants
to look at cross-sections within the
different minority groups on cam
pus, so that a student who may be,
say black and gay, won’t feel com
partmentalized into one group or
the other when seeking resources
on campus.
Any steps taken in creating that
“multi-dynamic” student have to
go beyond just accepting and dis
cussing diversity, she said.
“It means promoting programs
and encouraging students and fac
ulty and staff to celebrate what
makes us different, but inherently
that binds together, because we are
a unique community,” Martin said.
Part of being able to celebrate di
versity, however, means having
enough of a diverse population to
join in the party, not always an
easy feat to pull off, especially at
this University, Fuller said. The ad
ministration does not put forth the
resources, either monetarily or in
terms of people, she said, to recruit
students to the University and then
keep them here.
The University’s philosophy on
recruiting minorities is that any ad
ministrator can handle the task,
Fuller said. It’s not that simple in her
opinion, however.
“Yes, in a Kumbaya world, then
yes, everybody can recruit, but
that’s not where we are right now,”
Fuller said. “We need people —
plural — to focus on minorities.
Plus, they’re only focusing on Ore
gon students. There is no money
for attracting minorities from out
side of Oregon.
“These are basic concepts, basic
ideas that the University of Oregon
has been talking about for years
and years and years and years, but
they’re not taking any action and
they’re not putting any money be
hind the mouth.”
Vice President for Public Affairs
and Development Duncan McDon
ald said that the University has just
about tripled the number of schol
arships available to all students
over the past five or six years. But,
using federal monies toward in
creasing diversity on campuses has
to be handled delicately, because
of a few recent court rulings on
race-based scholarships in certain
states, with Georgia being one of
the most recent ones.
“The difficulty is always saying
‘here is a scholarship for one spe
cific group,’” he said. “You’re flirt
ing with danger.”
McDonald said that several
scholarships from U-Lane-O Credit
Union — more than two dozen
University students received the
$4,000 gifts last fall — went to mi
nority students. In addition, Mc
Donald said that another way the
University helps minority students
is to match their particular needs
with potential financial donors.
He said that although the Uni
versity does work to increase di
versity on campus, those actions
may not always be enough.
“It’s a consistent goal and a per
sistent need,” he said.
But just having a more diverse
population on campus isn’t the
panacea either, Martin said. The
entire issue is complex with no
single remedy, but part of the solu
tion is preparation.
“We’re trying to prepare stu
dents to go out into the world and
be ready to interact with their col
leagues and with their patients if
they’re a medical student or with
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