UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 4, 1993
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Project aims to cultivate minorities for teaching kids
By Kathleen Stoile Kansan staff writer
Preparing at-risk minority students for careers in early childhood development is the focus of a new $4.5 million project at KU.
The ultimate goal of the project is to provide minority children with more minority teachers and care-givers, said Wayne Sailor, director of the Kansas University Affiliated Program of the Institute for Life Soan Studies.
"All too often the people working with the children represent one ethnic group — mainly the ones who can afford to make it through college," Sailor said.
The Kansas Early Childhood Personnel Preparation Project is supported by a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education. KU and six other schools were chosen froma pool of about 50. The School of Education, the department of psychology and the department of human development and family life will participate in the project.
The project targets minority students who are at risk of dropping out of school, developing substance-abuse problems, becoming pregnant or developing other social problems, Sailor said. The 10 students accepted into the project each year are assigned mentors who help prepare them for college.
The project has targeted students from Lawrence High School, Harmon High School in Kansas City, Kan., and Topeka High School. Students from Haskell Indian Nations University, Kansas City Community College in Kansas City, Kan., and Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City, Mo., also may come to KU as part of the project.
The first set of students will be receive next year, Sailor said. They will receive $11,000 a year for the next
four years at KU. Those who begin their studies at a community college will receive $5,000 a year until they transfer. The students must complete their studies at KU.
As graduates, they will be required to work for four years in low-income communities with large minority populations. Sailor said.
Wilma Holt is an instructor in the HDFLearly childhood teacher education training program. She said a child's self-esteem could be influenced by seeing others with similar ethnic backgrounds in positions of authority.
"That's important because children need to have leaders so they can feel they can aspire to another level," she said.
She said the exposure could produce long-term effects.
"They can set life goals that would be very meaningful and would allow them to be productive," she said.
Minority groups struggle for funds
Senators give them 'hard time,' they say
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
One minority student group achieved a bittersweet victory, and another was left to rewrite its proposal after Student Senate voted it out of order last night.
17 After waiting for more than a month to get its funding request approved by Senate, the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students received $329. The bill passed after a half-hour debate on whether the architecture group duplicated services that another group already provided.
1Cal Jones, Kansas City, Mo., senior and head of the architecture group, said he was disturbed by the amount of work his organization had to go through for funding.
"The University of Kansas says we're supposed to be a diverse institution, but we have to go through so much trouble to get funded," Jones said.
Jones said the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students'purpose was to introduce students to the architecture of different cultures. He said the group met to discuss the work of African-American, Asian-American and female architects rather than focusing on the European architects favored by the School of Architecture.
Travis Harrod, head of the Student Executive Committee, said he was concerned that Senate's financing of the architecture group could mean an increased effort by other minority groups to get funding.
"This bill is definitely opening the gate of specialized endeavors," Harrod said. "How specific do we want to get for professional or cultural pursuits? This bill would set the precedent for smaller and smaller groups to try to get money."
Senate did not even vote on the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers' request for $1,424. The Senators voted that the bill was out of order because it duplicated services.
Pedro Echeverria, Lawrence junior and president of the Hispanic engineering group, said he hoped to reintroduce the bill at the next Senate meeting after he and Octavio Hinojosa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, reworded it.
"Our argument wasn't strong enough to pass the bill," Echeverria said. "But I don't see why it is that we're having such a hard time."
in other business, Senate voted to finance a banquet in the Kansas Union Ballroom that would be sponsored by the Indonesian Student Association.
It approved the transfer of $20,000 from Senate's excess account to its general fund that would be used to finance student groups.
In its final action, Senate resolved to extend hours at Watson, Anschutz and the Law libraries until 2 a.m. between Nov. 29 and Dec. 16.
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