Across the Nation
. I
OVEMBER25-DECEMBER
U iversity efforts
Enll tlng faculty
upportfor
multlculturall m
mu t begin In the
cia room,
ccordlng to U-Af
study.
A A 80 - While ef-
fort to create multicultural
univer ities have had little
impact on the direction of
faculty research or on faculty
member' sensitivity to is-
ue of raci I diversity, they
have resulted in significant
- and generally positive -
Changes in the way some
faculty teach. according to a
University of Michigan
study.
However, despite decade­
long effort by many colleges
and univer ities to create a
climate of multiculturalism.
more than half of the faculty
in the s tud y reported no
Change in their role in
re po nse to the increased
pre ence of Black students on
campus.
U-M doctoral tudent Mar­
tha Stassen and education
Prof. Gerald Gurin are part of
a re e rch team that urveyed
1,100 faculty member at six
Midwestern colleges and
universities, asking whether
Black student , in titulional
policies or BI ck and
minority i sue had affect d
their teaching, re earch, ad­
ministrative service or per­
sonal development.
Of the 419 or 42 percent
who said they were affected
by Blac students pre ence,
355 or 85 percent reported
changing in what Gurin and
Stassen called an "adaptive
way," uch developing a
mor e mul tfcul tural . cur­
riculum or revising their
teaching style.
Only 50 (15 percent) of the
re pondents expressed "resi
live _change." saying, for ex­
ample, that the climate in the
classroom wa "chilly" or
that there were topics they
were afraid to di cuss in class
beca use the y fea red be i ng
labe lied racist.
AKA tour offers free travel for
high chool students
Free travel to hi toric site
and a chance 10 spend a day
on Capitol Hill arc vailable
to 30 high chool junior and
enior females through Alpha
Kappa Alpha (AKA)
or o r it y ' 1991 Dome tic
Travel Tour. The grant wa
announced by Mary Shy
Scott. AKA i n tc r n a t i o n a l
prc s idc n t , at the g ro up :«
board of dire 'tors meeting
o . 1-4 in Chica '0.
Other board action in­
clud d the creation of AKA
peace and ju uicc award" and
the co ru i nua t i o n of AKA
leader: hip grant.
The o nc-v eek tour,
cheduled for July 21-28.
will in ludc the co. t of round
trip airfare to the city � here
the tour originate .• ground
tran p o r t a t io n , inter-city
trave I by bus to the ci tic i n­
eluded on the tour, hotel ac­
commodation. ticket' for
eve ni i ncl uded 0 n the tour.
and meals.
Iniriatcd in 1969, the bien­
nial tour provides the oppor­
tunity for tudent to vi it
hi torical i tc such as the
White Hou e in Washington,
D.C .• the liberty bell in
Philadelphia. the Martin
Luther King Center for So­
cial Change in Atlanta, the
statue of liberty in New
Yor • and the DuSable
Mu cum' in Chicago. This
year'. lour will also include a
one-day legi lative se . ion
on Capitol Hill.
APPLICA TS MUST
have a "8" cumulative
average and write �n essay on
"The Effects of Television on
Adolescent Behavior. It
Application' may be ob­
ta i ned by con � a c tin g , the
local AKA chapter or by
. \ tiling Dome . til: Travel Tour
Cornpc ti tio n, Alpha Kapp
Alpha. 5656 South Stony Is­
l a nd Avenue. hi cago, IL
60637.
Appl icat io ns viii he esc­
ccptcd through Jan. 31, and
inner will he notified b
April 1.
The peace and ju tice
. awards will recognize three
i n d i v i d u a l: \ ho have ad­
van 'ed the causes of peace
and justice in America. The
first honorccv=-v ho Will be
chosen from the area of law.
media, and international
pre c ncc-w i l l he h ino r d
during AKA's leader hip
c mi na r Jul 18-21 in
Chicago.
The leader. hip fell
grant. limited to und r­
graduate members of AKA.
will provide a ee of leader-
hip 'and managem nt train­
ing for �O oph mores and
juniors June X-16 In Atlanta.
Tun � T WILL intern
d uri ng .the econd pha e of
the program. and the 1«)92
pi cement will he ith
member of Congre s.
Applicant mu t be
sophomores or juniors. have
a cumulative average of "B".
and write an e�say on "What
Survival Ski II� Arc ceded
for Workforce 20t) f!"
The de d Ii ne is Jan. 31.
and inner' 'i II be noti fied
by April 1.
"FOR THE MOST P rt,
faculty who are willing to
talk about changing are
see i ng ita a process of
adapting to a new student
clientele and new issues and
priorities," Gurin said.
A faculty member's
academic discipline was a
strong indicator of his or her
response to multiculturalism,
the researchers found. FaCUl­
ty in the humanities and fine
arts were 9 percent more like­
ly than average to report
adaptive change, while facul­
ty in the natural and physical
sciences were 8 percent more
likely to report no.change.
The researchers found few
difference in responsiveness
to diversity between tenured
and non-tenured (but on
Dennis C.
Hayes
name
AACPs
genera�
counsel
Dennis Courtland Hayes,
who has served a a sistant
General Counsel of the
NAACP since September,
� 985, has been appoi nted a
the association s General
Counsel, Dr. Benjamin L.
Hooks, Executive Direc­
tor/CEO of the NAACP has
announced.
Mr. Haye , 39, a ume the
directorship of the NAACP's
Legal Department, which ha.
been. and continues to be, a
key factor in the legal baltic
against all form of dr -
crimination and egregation.
Mr. Haye earned hi un­
dergraduate degree from In­
dia na University,
Bloomington, and his law de­
gree from Indiana University
School of Law, Indianapoli .
As an NAACP attorney, he
ha supervised the
Associati n's voting right
docket and has been the attor­
ney of record in a number of
successful federal lawsuits
against municipalities in-.
volving minority vote dilu­
tion.
Among the e sui ts were
those in Tul a, OK; Dover'
DL, and Spartanburg and Ben­
BennettsvilJe, SC.
Prior to joini ng the staff of
the NAACP - the nation's
oldest and largest civil right
organization _:_ Mr. H ye
'n private practice in In­
dianapolis, pecializfng in
equal employment oppor­
tumty law.
ten re-track) fa ulty. Faculty
not in a tenure rack were 13
per ent more Ii ely to report
ada tive chang .
s rprisingty, the younge t
Iac lty in the st dy were not
the most adapt"ve. F cully
age 35 and you ger were 10
per ent more Ii ely to report
resi rive chang, white t e
old t group i the stud,
fac lty ? 1 or 0 der, were
per e nt more likely tha
ave age to rep rt adaptiv
cha ge.
e mo t im rtant fact r
in etermining change, th
res archer fo nd, wa
fac tty member's general
ideo ogical tan on affirm­
ativ action. F culty who
wer least upp rlive of af­
firm rive action. acuity who
wer least supp rtivc of af­
firmative acti n policie
were 22 percent more lik Iy
to r port no ch nge while
thos who wer 0 t uppor­
rive of af irma ive action
were 122 percent ore likely
to re on adaptiv change.
were ideologically oppo ed
to a .irrnaiive a ion. "mo t
't ungagcd In resistive
e but rath were un­
ns ivc ," S a. en and
noted.
It ivc n the a tonomy of
univ rsity I'acul y and' the
fact t at students f color are
a m II minority at the in-
ti tutions wc . urv ycd, facul­
ty who are rc 'bta t on thcse
i ue. are xpre sing the ir
r e is an e hy . mply not
re P nding t their
i nsti tution 's di vc
iivc .
"No n-r c pon i
rather than a tive pposruon
- may be the cri ical is .ue
for adrnini trators looking t
increa e faculty , pport for
diver Ity."
Sta en and Gu in believe
their finding .u gcst that
faculty follow defi ite tage .
in their acccptanc of diver-
MICHIGAN CITIZEN
ity.
"The first way in which
faculty are likely to change
what they do in respon e to
an increasingly div r
population i in the cia -
room, through intera tion
with students," Stas en ·aid.
"Then maybe change will be
seen in drmms uativc e r­
vice work. involvement in
diver Ity committee.
"Only then - and t i i
the. wwhole point behin ef­
fort to. develop mult cul­
tur Ii m - will th y chang
in more p rsonal ays, be­
c ming more awar of diver­
sity, more comfort bl with
difference and more n itive
to their own mbiv I nt feel­
ing about race," h added.
TA
peculate that perh P" be­
cue faculty member ' per­
ception of their re earch i
tied to the norm of their di -
cipline (usually I arned in
graduate chool) it i Ie t
likely to be affected by in-
titutional change tow rd
multiculturali m, even in the
s o c i I eience nd
humanitie . "Changes in th
cholar hip role may be th
last frontier of a aption,"
they sid.
St Gurin
y est the
A 0 iation for he tudy of
Highcr Education m cting on
ov. . The paper i part 0
an on oing tudyfu ded by
the Spencer Foundat on titled
"Black Student in hite In­
stitution ." a joint nd av r
of the U-M' Conte for the
tudy of Higher a d P t­
econdary Ed uc a t on and
enter for Afroamer can and
African Studie . Other r -
searcher i nv o l v e in the
project arc Waller AI en. who
is at the Univer ity of
California, LAng .Ics n
leave from U-M, an Ch .r yl
Pre Icy of Colora () S� t
Univer ity.