UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 4, Page D-1
September 22, 1994
Diversity
Commission establishes goals for coming year

     Expanding diversity education programming for students and staff.
     Developing a mentoring program for newly hired minority
professionals that focuses on job expectations and understanding how
the University functions.
     Assisting supervisors in managing an increasingly diverse
workforce.
     Assuring that the campus community fully understands and
implements the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
     These are the four goals for 1994-95 of the Commission to Promote
Racial and Cultural Diversity, identified last spring at the
commission's final meeting of the academic year.
     In addition, the commission plans to work as a collective during
the year to develop a strategic plan that will increase the number of
protected class members in the student body and within the
University's workforce.
     University President David P. Roselle will attend an upcoming
meeting for a collegial exchange with members.
     Current members are Lin Gordon, Academic Services Center;
Patricia Benton-Fogg, facilities management; Rabbi Stephen Booth,
Hillel Center; Hilton Brown, art conservation; Maxine Colm, employee
relations; Araya Debessay, business and economics, accounting; Vernese
Edghill, Center for Black Culture; Mary Ann Finch, Cooperative
Extension; Samuel Gaertner, psychology; Norma Gaines, human resources;
Judith Gibson, affirmative action and multicultural programs; Judy
Greene, Center for Teaching Effectiveness; Wanda McCracken,
admissions; John McLaughlin, psychology; James Newton, Black American
Studies Program; Marie Robinson, music; Linda Russell, English; Cecily
Sawyer-Harmon, faculty/staff assistance; Robert Simons, psychology;
Herbert Turner, institutional research; Laura Lee Wilson, Wesley
Foundation; and S.B. Woo, physics and astronomy.
     The Commission to Promote Racial and Cultural Diversity was
created in 1988 to assist the University in increasing the racial and
cultural diversity of its student body and staff and to help create a
climate that appreciates the differences among different races,
cultures and genders.