Wednesday, July 6, 1994- The Michigan Daily -3
Clinton
names dean
of Rackham
to council
By Beth Harris
AILY STAFF REPORTER
The University will have one of its
own in D.C. soon.
John H. D'Arms, vice provost for
academic affairs and deanofthe Horace
H. Rackham School of Graduate Stud-
iesattheUniversity,wasrecently nomi-
nated by President Clinton to the Na-
tional Council on the Humanities.
D'Arms said the council is respon-
sible for establishing policies for allo-
$tion of funds to various organiza-
tions or individuals active in the hu-
manities.The council alsoreviews rec-
ommendations for the awarding of
grants.
"The council is a group who ad-
vises on future directing and policies
for disbursement of the $200 million
yearly budget," D'Arms said.
The funds are divided across the
tion, with the council advising the
chair of the National Endowment for
the Humanities(NEH)on how much to
give to each project or group.
"For example, the NEH has a pro-
gram in translations, where important
works of literature are translated into
English. The NEH also has a program
involving the teaching of humanities in
public schools. The councilis expected
to advise the chairman how much
*oney goes to these, and also to many
other programs," D'Arms said.
D'Arms is looking forward to his
appointment and to representing the
University.
John Cross, LSA associate dean,
agrees that the appointment is benefi-
cial to the University."It'sagreathonor
for him and the University. The nomi-
nation is well-deserved. (D'Arms) has
een active in the humanities for many
years and it's consistent with his back-
ground," Cross said.
Thecouncil is madeupof26mem-
bers, all of whom are museum direc-
tors, civic leaders or scholars, such as
D'Arms.
The council's importance and re-
sponsibilities have changed in the past
20 years also, D'Arms noted.
"Twenty years ago there may have
en common agreement as to what
was first-rate in terms of scholarship,
but the persons who agreed tended to
be white, male and middle or upper-
class," D'Arms said.
D'Arms also said that the many
facets of the job make it particularly
challenging.
"On one hand, we want to celebrate
the cultural diversity in this country.At
f same time, we have to make hard
ecisionsabout whatexcellentprojects
to support. We will strive to celebrate
difference but we need to also promote
community, and always look for work
of high quality," D'Arms said.
Study: Bachelor's degree
holders earn more money
i rBy Frank C. Lee
DAILY STAFF REPORTER
"Learn more, earn more"-only if
you have a diploma to prove it -
seems to be the rule, according to one
University of Michigan study.
The "sheepskin effect" - the in-
creasein income associated with ahigh
school or college diploma - is stron-
ger than ever, researchers found.
The study recently reported that
D'A rms while American white males between
the ages of25 and64 working full-time
D'Arms said the president nomi- in cities earn about $800 a week with a
natesindividuals who willprovidehelp- bachelor's degree, white males with 16
fulinsightsinthedecision-makingpro- years of education but no college de-
cess. gree earn less.
"What are they looking to me to According to the report, the abso-
help to do? My entire career has been luteincomeofBlacksatalleducational
spent at universities, and my scholarly levels was lower in every instance than
focus has been in the humanities. that of their white counterparts.
They'll be expecting me to advise them "Other studies have triedtoexplain
on university funding and those as- the difference (in incomes) but no one
pects," D'Arms said. can explain it, between Blacks and
AlthoughD'Arms willbespending whites ... probably discrimination in
time in Washington, he will keep his employment,"saidMariannePage,co-
position at the University. The council author of the report.
meets four times a year for two days at David Jaegar, the other author of
a time. the report, emphasized the accuracy of
D'Arms is also the Gerald F. Else the researchers' methods. "Previous
professor of classical studies and a studies used only information on the
professorofhistory. HejoinedtheUni- number of years of education to esti-
versity faculty in 1965. He serves on mate futureeffects adiplomahas while
the boards of the National Humanities we have information on actual degrees
Center and the North American Com- people received," he said.
mittee for the Mellon Fellowships in The study isbased on the U.S. Cen-
the Humanities. sus Bureau's Current Population Sur-
In addition,D'Arms has served as a veys from 1991 and 1992. "The point
trustee of the American Academy of of our study is that years of education
Rome and is currently writing a book isn't always a good approximation for
on the rituals of eating and drinking in whether or not an individual actually
Roman society. gets a degree," Page said.
He received bachelor's degrees According tothestudy, whitemales
from Princeton in 1956 and Oxford in with a bachelor's degree earn $139 per
1959 and a doctorate from Harvard in week more than white males without a
1965. college degree.Moreover, white males
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$196 more a week than Black males
with a bachelor's degree, and $306 per
week more than Black males without a
college degree.
Jaegar and Page, both labor econo-
mists fromtheUniversity'sPopulation
Studies Center, analyzed average
weekly income along demographic
lines of race, gender and amount of
education.
"What we are finding is that the
effect of the degree, if it is indeed the
degree causing higher earnings, which
is also up for debate, is bigger than
whatpeople havepreviously thought,"
Pagesaid. "In fact,it's about as twiceas
big,bothforhighschoolandbachelor's
degrees."
Other key findingsindicatethathigh
school graduates earn more than those
with 12 years of education but no high
school diploma. Professional school
graduates earn more than those with
just bachelor's degrees.
Bothresearchescaution againstas-
suming direct, causal links between a
diploma and income.
"It is unclear from the study that
gettingthe degreeactuallycauseshigher
earnings," Page said. "It may be that
factors that are linked to getting the
degree are also linked to individuals
having higher earnings."
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