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4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
An eye for an eye
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7.2005
NATION
Carrie Moore, 7, gets a good look at a six-week-old blue tiny teacup Chihuahua for sale at the Anderson Jockey Lot flea market in Williamston, S.C., on Sunday. Carrie and her mother, Amanda Moore,
it cut through a mobile home park and obliterated trailers and houses as residents slept.
looked at other Chihuahua puppies.
looked at other Chihuahua puppies,
many which cost $250 or more, before
deciding to buy one with white fur
Torndado kills 22 throughout Midwest
deciding to buy one with white fur.
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At least 17 people were killed in the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park in Evansville, according to Eric Williams of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Department.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A tornado tore across western Kentucky and Indiana early Sunday, killing at least 22 people as
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Guth said he was not involved in the conflict, but he wished that whoever wrote on the windows
Foley, Little Rock, Ark., senior, said he knew the couple personally. Foley said he did not think it was his place to disclose sexual orientation.
"The adult thing to do is to confront the situation and not go painting windows, which is the immature thing to do," Guth said.
Officials at the KU Public Safety Office said they would not comment on the incident until today.
Diversity
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to help each other out and provide the information they need."
Toni Johnson, a recently hired professor of social welfare and an African American, said before hearing about an open position at the University from a friend who worked here, she hadn't ever considered coming to Lawrence. She said she had preconceived notions about the conservative nature of the state and that it was a hostile environment for minorities.
"I had some opinions and ideas that were not correct. But my contact with people I knew and the people who recruited me opened my eyes and made me think about KU in a different way." Johnson said.
Johnson said another big concern for her was the number of minority faculty at the University.
"There's not a lot here and I wanted to see if anyone was concerned about that," she said. "But I got open answers from Jean and I came to believe that my department and the University are doing everything to expand diversity."
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, senior vice provost, said difficulties arose when there were only a limited number of
KU officials agree that some factors that inhibit minorities from coming to the University are beyond their control.
qualified minority candidates in a certain field. She also said competition from other universities affected the process.
"We've been working for years and we haven't had much success," she said.
faculty in the last two years.
it's not just finding candidates, however, they also must be convinced to stay. McCluskey-Fawcett said some potential minority faculty took issue with the fact that Lawrence was isolated from a large urban community and that there is not a large professional minority community. She said all the University could do was talk with them honestly.
"We certainly talk to people about these concerns. We try to discuss with people what is here and not what is missing," she said.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, professor of English, said she worried that highly qualified minority faculty members might be enticed to other schools because of better offers. She said the Kansas Legislature's relative lack of support for higher education meant that salaries for KU faculty tended to be lower than at comparative schools. For the 2005 fiscal year, the University ranked seventh in the Big 12 for its professor salaries and eighth for its associate professor salaries.
While recruiting minority faculty is an important issue, retaining them can be just as important in order to keep the numbers up. The University has not had a net gain of minority
Johnson said she had seen a lot of effort to recruit from universities nationally, but retention efforts had been dismal.
"You bring in diversity but you also have to make space to make them feel comfortable," she said. "KU is doing everything possible but some departments might not be."
Hobart Jackson, professor of architecture, has been at the University since 1971. Jackson is a founding member of the Black Faculty and Staff Council. The council provides support for current African-American members and encourages faculty candidates with initiatives such as the Langston Hughes Professorship.
Jackson has unofficially monitored the number of African and African-American faculty at the University the past decade, which he said has hovered at about 35. He said he became particularly concerned between spring and summer of 2003. The number of African and African-American faculty dropped by 20 percent from 50 to 28. He said the reasons varied from career advancement to retirements to negative tenure reviews. Of seven faculty members who departed, he said he thought four left because of issues related to tenure.
"One issue all KU faculty may be subject to is a lack of support in their departments. Where ethnic minority faculty may run into trouble is when their area of re
search is focused on minority issues. Such issues may or may not be valued by majority, or white, mainstream faculty," Jackson said.
McCluskey-Fawcett disputed the idea that minority faculty would leave because of tenure issues, citing statistics showing a relative balance between tenure rates for minorities and non-minorities. In Fall 2004, about 52 percent of minorities had tenure and nearly 66 percent of non-minorities had tenure.
Jackson cautioned that there
was much left to be done to increase the levels of diversity at the University.
"Simply stated, there continues to be problems with both recruitment and retention of faculty of color at KU. Progress has been made since when I came here but much more progress remains to be accomplished," Jackson said.
Other schools in Kansas have levels of diversity similar to that at the University.
According to each school's Web site, 13.2 percent of fac-
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uity at Kansas State were minorities, 159 out of 1,209, as of Oct. 1, 2001. At Emporia State, 7.9 percent of faculty were minorities, 21 out of 266, during the 2003-2004 academic year. Wichita State said 74 percent of its faculty members identified themselves as white in the Fall of 2004. Fort Hays State said 4 percent of its faculty and staff were minorities in 2000.
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