The Michigan Daily --Tuesday, January 17, 1989 - Page 5 Health sci. expands recruitment DAVID LUBINER/Daily Michael Wilson, a first-year medical student and member or UCAR, speaks yesterday at a forum on a proposed manda- tory class on racism. Profs. sn forclass BY DAVID SCHWARTZ Social Work Prof. Beth Reed, chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, told 150 people at the Michigan League yesterday that a course dealing with racism and sexism is necessary to break down ingrained stereotypes. "(Stereotypes) shape how you see the world, but more impor- tant, how you evaluate it," Reed said. Faculty and students developed a class addressing such issues, University Course 299, and pro- posed it last fall. UC 299 will become manda- tory for LSA students if the pro- posal is approved by the LSA Executive Committee and the LSA faculty this term. It has al- ready been approved as an elective on racism by the LSA Curriculum Com- mittee. Reed and Warren Whatley, an associate professor of economics, outlined the UC 299 proposal as part of a Martin Luther King Day seminar. It includes: -a discussion of the concept of race; -an outline of the history of racial discrimination and inequal- ity; -a discussion of the origins of racism and institutional racism; -exposure to the culture of people of color through literature; -a comparison of racial dis- crimination to other forms of so- cial discrimination, and; -an analysis of current prob- lems of racial discrimination and how change may be brought about to correct these problems. BY MICHAEL LUSTIG Second in a two-part series For most of 1987, representatives from the University's five health science schools met regularly to de- vise ways to improve recruitment and retention of minority students in their schools. And in the year since their report, Minority Student Recruitment Initiatives, was released and dis- tributed to the deans of the schools who originally asked for it - the Medical School, Dental School, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, School of Public Health and the University Hospitals - have begun to implement new recruitment and retention programs tailored to their own needs. The report recommended increas- ing contacts between minority stu- dents and faculty members, primarily in advisor or mentor roles. "It's hard to get students here if you don't have the faculty role mod- els," said Joanne Lound, assistant to the vice provost for medical affairs. Medical School officials realize there are very few minority profes- sors and house officers, or residents, to serve as role models, said Mar- garet Woodbury, assistant dean for student and minority affairs. The smaller schools have a built- in advantage to forming close ties between students and faculty mem- bers. The College of Pharmacy had 211 students enrolled last term and all incoming students are assigned an advisor. "Everyone is easily access- able," said Valener Perry, assistant dean for student services. The schools are also relying more on their alumni for help in locating prospective students and building on initial contacts. Dentists visit Wayne St. Univer- sity,.U-M Flint, and U-M Dearborn monthly to talk with students, said Donald Strachen, assistant dean for admissions. Dental School alumni also help locate students and have a scholar- ship fund set up, he added. This year, for the first time, Lound said, planners of University Hospitals have written into their Look Your Best! * 6 Barber Stylists For MEN & WOMEN!!! DASCOLA STYLISTS Opposite Jacobson's 668-9329 long-range plans specific programs designed around the special needs of minorities. They have taken a further step to show commitment to these programs by declaring deadlines by which programs must be in place and goals must be reached, she said. This includes placing more women and minorities in faculty, house officer, and administrative po- sitions. Progress reports for individ- ual departments in the Medical School are required every few months, she added. For example, by June of 1990, the school will have in place a pa- tient care research program in obstetrics and gynecology, showing the special problems of minority patients. "We put our name on the line" by setting the deadlines, Lound said. Other health science schools have implemented new programs in re- sponse to the report. The College of Pharmacy began a program to attract undergraduates to careers in pharmacy research last summer. It is open to all students "with particular attention to minori- ties," said Perry. For 10 weeks, students go through an intensive research pro- gram, Perry said. They are housed in University residence halls, receive a $2,400 stipend, receive free air fare if they live out-of-state, and get a pass to use University recreation facili- ties. In its first year, Perry said, the college accepted 10 out of nearly 100 applicants to the program. Six of the 10 were women and five were mi- norities, she said. The School of Nursing has begun making campus visits to predomi- nantly Black colleges to recruit stu- dents to its graduate programs. Rep- resentatives of the School of Nurs- ing visited Dillard University in New Orleans last fall and will go to Hampton College in Virginia next fall, said Frank Smolinski, assistant director of admissions. The Medical School and School of Public Health are also recruiting at predominantly Black colleges to attract students to its graduate pro- grams, Lound added. Next month, Woodbury will go to the University of Southern Cali- fornia for a recruitment program primarily targeted at Latino students, she said, adding that the Medical School holds recruitment programs in New York and California on al- ternating years. The School of Public Health has established the Detroit-Area Re- cruitment Advisory Board to encour- age health care professionals and re- cent college graduates to pursue ad- vanced study, said Margaret Warrick, director of student services. Some of the school's new minority students came through this program, she added. The Kellogg Foundation will soon provide grant money to the nursing and medical schools for re- cruitment programs. The nursing school plan would locate counselors in high schools and use them to find prospective students, Smolinski said. The grant might include some scholarship money as well, he added. Smolinski said the nursing school would like to establish an exchange program for professors to go to predominantly Black colleges for a term, but he said he didn't think the grant would be large enough to do that. In the Medical School, Kellogg funds will bring counselors to the University for intensive research programs, Lound said. One problem that all schools have had to face is funding, or lack of it. "We haven't had a significant increase" in funding for recruitment and retention programs, Woodbury said. The Medical School received some additional funds from the office of the vice provost for minority af- fairs to participate in an open house for prospective students in Chicago last fall, she said, but had to provide some of its own money as well. WEEKEND MAGAZINE Fridays in The Daily 763-0379 BUSINESS BUSINESS LEADERS of Tomorrow... 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