New hiring requirements
focus of campus discussion
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
Alisa Mosley has heard the ques
tions.
How do we deal with you? Do we
have to treat you differently because
you are black?
For many of Alisa Mosley’s stu
dents at UNL having her for a profes
sor is their first experience at having
a minority as an instructor. For many
of those students that happens during
their senior year.
“Coming out of this university
our students should have received a
strong representation of the environ
ment they will be going into,” Mosley
said.
Mosley is a black UNL teaching
assistant working on her doctoral
degree in management.
On Tuesday, Mosley was a mem
ber of the audience listening to a dis
cussion between Sen. Don Wesely of
Lincoln and Lee B. Jones, executive
vice president and provost of the
University of Nebraska. The discus
sion was sponsored by African
American and African Studies
Program at UNL.
Wesely and Jones were dis
cussing a requirement in the state’s
budget passed this year by the
Legislature that requires the universi
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goals or lose more than $3 million in
state funds. The university must
make progress reports on its hiring
goals each year to the Legislature.
Wesley said he agreed with
Mosley, which is why he sponsored
the hiring amendment to the budget.
“We're not promoting the idea of
gender equity and minority represen
tation just because we fee! like it,”
Wesely said. “There is a rational rea
son. If we are going to educate stu
dents to have the best opportunity in
the world, they need to have the expo
sure to a diverse faculty.”
Jones said the university is com
mitted to diversity but foresees prob
lems in trying to meet the
Legislature’s hiring requirements.
“There are no differences in opin
ion in terms of where we are trying to
go,” Jones said. “My concern with
the bill, at least in its final form is not
with the intent but with the time
limit.”
The ultimate goal is for the uni
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We re not
promoting the idea
of gender equity
and minority
representation just
because we feel
like it ...If we are
going to educate
students to have the
best opportunity in
the world, they need
to have the exposure
to a diverse faculty
Sen. Don Wesley
Lincoln
versify system to be in the top 50 per
cent of the university’s peer group for
hiring women and minorities by the
year 2002. But Jones said it takes
much longer than that to advance
from an associate professor to a full
time professor with tenure.
“We do believe diversity will be
best achieved through a collaborative
effort on the part of all individuals,”
he said. “I hope the single hiring of
any individual does not signal any
trend.”
Wesely said he was concerned
with the hiring of a white man to fill
the executive director of alumni
association position. A black man
and a white woman both were candi
dates for the alumni position. Wesley
also expressed concern that a white
man was being considered for the
head .coaching position of UNL’s
women’s basketball team.
A report by the University of
Nebraska Human Resources
Management showed minorities
made up 8.4 percent of all professors
and instructors on NU’s four cam
puses in 1996. Women instructors
constituted 28.2 percent, a 6 percent
increase from 1987.
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