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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED333910 AUTHOR: Kappner, Augusta Souza
TITLE: The Role of Leadership in Planning and Implementing
Diversity.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 28 p.; Paper presented at the Annual National
Convention of the American Association of Community and
Junior Colleges (71st, Kansas City, MO, April 13-16, 1991).
ABSTRACT: As institutions enrolling a disproportionate
number of the minority students attending colleges and
universities nationwide, community colleges have a
considerable responsibility to develop policies that will
support diversity and serve as models for the rest of
higher education. At Borough of Manhattan Community College
(BMCC), the student population is 52% Black and 30%
Hispanic, while only 25% of the faculty are minority group
members. In 1988, following a systemwide administrative
retreat, an ad hoc committee of City University of New York
presidents formed and developed a statement on diversity
which was reviewed and passed by the trustees. In response
to that statement, BMCC undertook efforts to recruit more
bilingual counselors; infuse diversity issues into the
freshman orientation curriculum; increase community
outreach efforts; expand the affirmative action committee;
initiate special programs and workshops in cross-cultural
understanding and inter-group dynamics for faculty and
staff; implement a pre-freshman basic skills program;
develop a mentoring program for Black students; and create
a special seminar to assist women and minority faculty in
completing their doctoral dissertations. Outcomes of the
initiatives included the following: (1) five faculty
completed doctoral dissertations; (2) student retention
increased by 6% since the implement ation of a pre
freshman basic skills course; (3) 223 faculty, staff, and
students participated in multi-cultural awareness
workshops; and (4) of 11 new faculty hires in 1990, 8 were
minorities and 7 were women. A copy of the presidents'
diversity statement is attached. (PAA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Community-Colleges; Cross-Cultural
Training; Faculty-Development; Faculty-Integration;
Leadership-; Minority-Group-Teachers; Remedial-Programs;
Seminars-; Staff-Development; Two-Year-Colleges; Two-Year
College-Students; Workshops-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrator-Role; *Affirmative-Action;
*Change-Strategies; *Equal-Education; *Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; *Minority-Groups
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