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that was beneficial to students because they would be prepared to work in a diverse world.
"When we get to 200 we'll probably set another goal of 250." Hemenway said.
The U.S. Department of Education's most updated statistics from the fall of 1998 said 14.9 percent of faculty at all universities were minority. For public research universities it is 15.6 percent.
According to KU's Office of Institutional Research and Planning, 12 percent of minority faculty are tenured or working toward tenure. At a similarly sized institution, the University of Colorado at Boulder, minority faculty are at 13 percent according to its Office of Planning, Budget and Analysis.
According to the University's Office of Institutional Research the mathematics department has 11 Asian and three Hispanic faculty members. It has no African-American or Native-American faculty. Few African Americans hold doctorates in mathematics, which makes it difficult when the department is looking for a new faculty member, said Jack Porter, chairman of the mathematics department.
"We're doing everything we can. In the last pool when we look for those qualifications no African Americans were on the cut-off list," said Porter.
Porter said his first priority was to look for the most qualified
people. The department looks for individuals funded for research but are also published in prestigious and scholarly journals. If he had a candidate who was African American who had exceptional qualifications he said the department would seek to hire the candidate using KU's bridge fund.
Provost David Shulenburger said $250,000 was available in the school bridge fund, which would cover a new faculty member's salary for a year. This faculty member could be a minority or someone who simply furthers the interest of the University.
Shutenburger receives requests from deans in the spring telling him how many faculty they would like to recruit for the following school year. He said every search must produce minority candidates with the Equal Opportunity Office monitoring the searches.
Danielle Dempsey-Swopes, Interim Director for the Equal Opportunity Office, said the recruitment process had three phases. The firstphase involves a recruitment plan that indicates where the department is advertising and if they are attending conferences to talk to candidates.
The second phase involves the department telling the office how it will increase diversity. The third phase is a saying who the department is interviewing and why.
she said. "Before a position be offered, the office will again look at what the department has done to increase diversity before they can make a final decision."
Dempsey-Swopes said if there were no women or minorities interviewed, the office would compare the people that were
interviewed to minorities.
"If they look the same or similar on paper we may ask them to take a second look,"
The Black Student Union works to give minority professors a reason to stay at the University said Mark Dupree, president of the Black Student Union. Last week it invited Middlemass to speak at its meeting.
"We bring them in to speak so we can get to know them. They can talk about problems they might have, and a lot of students can say 'Hey I understand,' Dupree said. "We let them know we support them in their endeavors."
Dupree, a political science major, has had only two minority faculty members at KU. Dupree said he could relate more to these professors.
He acknowledges the University is working to recruit minority faculty, but he said they aren't doing enough and students were looking for action not just talk.
"You want me as an African American to stay here but you can't have any African-American teachers that can relate to me." Dupree said.
Shannon Campbell, assistant professor of journalism, said minority faculty had tremendous pressure on their shoulders to act as role models and advisers for certain groups. Despite the pressure, she said she was blessed and lucky to bear it.
"There is a sense of feeling comfort when you see people who are like you, know you, understand your culture and what you have gone through," Campbell said.
Campbell is still uncertain as to why the University is still lacking in minority faculty.
Florence Boldridge, director of diversity programs for the school of engineering, is well aware of the importance of increasing the number of minority faculty. She said it was important for minority students to have role models.
"I think KU is in a great physical location for attracting faculty members of color. We are close to a metropolitan area," Campbell said. "We have things that a lot of flagship universities don't have."
Boldridge is in the process of hiring a recruiting coordinator within the next few weeks whose major emphasis will be recruiting women and minorities.
"I think one of the drawing cards for minority students is to see people like yourself standing before you," Boldridge said.
As a minority, Middlemass said she offered a different perspective for the classroom as well as the University.
"I'm going to teach a politics class differently. You don't just want a white middle class male professor. I bring in a different way of looking at the world," Middlemass said.
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that if we could have gotten that kind of excitement in the beginning, that would have meant better ridership for us."
Rexroad said one of the marketing problems she found was that people did not know how to use the bus system.
"When we first started, we learned real quick that people
are fearful of getting out there and riding the bus," Rexroad said. "That's when we decided that we had to do more 'how do you ride the system' orientations to get folks out there."
One of the marketing plans includes radio promotions on the local radio station, 105.9 KLZR-FM, which targets kids
Rexroad said the city now wanted to move away from the educational side of the transit to the marketing side.
and teens.
The promotions include free Usher tickets, World's of Fun tickets and CDs.
Other plans include putting up 48 bus shelters, 100 benches and bus-stop signs around Lawrence within the next three years.
"With kids we're setting a pattern," Rexroad said. "Transportation can get you where you need to go. And I think that, if you learn that as a kid, you'll
take it with you into adulthood and see transportation as an alternative."
Rexroad said she wanted the new marketing plan to increase ridership by 3 percent by the end of the year.
"We're looking at steady growth," Rexroad said. "You're not going to see any bells and whistles but we just want to get the message out."
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ADA-compliant, because it would make it easier for her to get around.
"I can't ride LiftVan because I don't have a physical handicap but it is hard to ride the bus because my guide dog and I take up a lot of space," Magario said. "I never find a seat open up front and sometimes nobody ever gets up."
Appleby said if KU on Wheels did not find federal funds to pay for the new ADA-compliant buses, students could see an
increase in transit fees from $16 to $25 or $30. Appleby said by doubling the fees, KU on Wheels could rely solely on student fees for 100 percent of its operating budget in three or four years.
"If we can get to that stage, then all you would have to do is get on any bus and show your KU ID and you would ride the bus essentially for free," Appleby said. "Granted you're actually paying at the beginning of the semester for privilege to ride the system, but to me, you don't have to pay a $1 to get on the bus."
Karin Rexroad, public transit administrator for the Lawrence
Transit System, said the shared ridership program would increase the city's ridership.
"There are benefits to both of us," Rexroad said. "It's a major ridership base that we would love to have a part of. That's why I think our numbers are lower."
The city was taking its time on this project to maximize the benefits for both busing organizations, Rexroad said.
"The KU on Wheels system is student-owned and operated and that's a whole lot of ownership." Rexroad said. "We don't want them to think that the big city is coming down to sweop
"The KU on Wheels system is student-owned and operated and that's a whole lot of ownership."
Karin Rexroad Public transit administrator for the Lawrence Transit System
down and take over their system. We want to make sure that there are truly benefits to the students when we do make the steps."
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