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NU to increase Native outreach University creates new Native American inclusion position By PETER KOTECKI
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Northwestern will hire a new assistant director for Native American student outreach and inclusion, following recommendations that the University improve Native American student recruitment. The new hire will serve a joint position between Campus Inclusion and Community and Undergraduate Admissions, said Christopher Watson, dean of undergraduate admissions. Watson and Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson, director of CIC, will oversee the assistant director’s work for the two departments, he said. “They will have a dual reporting line, and that person will help coordinate the recruitment of underrepresented students with a special emphasis on Native American recruitment,” Watson said. Medill Prof. Loren Ghiglione, who served on the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force in 2014, said the group decided that college admission and the quality of service by faculty and staff toward Native American students were important elements to address. “We have a responsibility, if you admit students who might feel isolated or invisible, to make sure that their needs or services are serviced,” Ghiglione said.
Among several tasks, the new hire will identify schools — either reservation schools or local schools with significant populations of Native American students — from which to recruit students, Watson said. “There is some research that goes into finding what kinds of schools would be appropriate and then making sure they are open to visitors from college — not every high school offers universities the opportunity to do recruitment visits,” he said. Watson said the assistant director will also represent the University at national programs such as College Horizons, a summer workshop that supports the higher education of Native American people. In addition, the new hire will create and assess campus-based programs for Native American students at NU, he said. Assistant directors in Multicultural Student Affairs report to Charles Kellom, the department’s director, BrownHenderson said. “This person would specifically be working and advising with our Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, organizing programs for Native (American) Heritage Month and helping to broadly educate students or campus community on specific concerns of our » See OUTREACH, page 5
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SAFETY FIRST Chicago Transit Authority recently expanded its anti-harassment program to encourage people to report instances of harassment on public transportation. Changes include a new employee training program and increased advertisements on trains and buses.
CTA revamps safety campaign Program aims to decrease harassment By ROBIN OPSAHL
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Chicago Transit Authority is revamping its anti-harassment campaign to include new employee training and expanded advertisements on buses and trains. CTA officials overhauled the campaign, called “If It’s Unwanted, It’s Harassment,” because they believe incidences of harassment on CTA transit are underreported, said Tammy Chase, director of communications and media relations at the CTA. Officials said they hope that with increased staff training and rider awareness victims
will feel empowered to report harassment. “CTA is a safe train system, but we’re making more information readily available,” Catherine Hosinski, a spokeswoman for the agency told The Daily. “We are trying to educate riders on what types of behaviors aren’t acceptable and give them ways to report incidences.” The campaign, a renewal of a 2009 effort, will also include posters and social media messages telling people “Speak Up!” and “We are all Watching.” The goal of the expanded campaign is to get riders who see or experience harassment to report their experiences so offenders can be caught and face punishment. As CTA renovated the anti-harassment
campaign, it consulted external organizations including YWCA Metropolitan Chicago and the Chicago Department of Public Health. Although Hosinski said she considers CTA a safe transport system, the campaign is a way to make sure people who feel endangered or uncomfortable know there is a system in place to help them. “The public is a critical partner in battling harassment,” said James Keating, CTA’s chief of security, in a press release. “Reporting incidents is extremely important in increasing safety and helping us to stop offenders from harassing customers.” » See CTA, page 5
Animal shelter grant forces budget reorganization By JULIA JACOBS
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SHELTER SUBSIDY A dog stands in its kennel at Evanston Animal Shelter. After the Evanston Animal Shelter Association received a grant funding three parttime employees to manage the shelter and kennel, city officials must alter the proposed budget released one week ago.
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One week after releasing the proposed Evanston budget, city officials already have plans to revise it after aldermen voted Monday to fund three part-time employees for the Evanston Animal Shelter Association. The proposed budget, which the city released Friday, included $1.5 million worth of potential reductions to implement in case the state’s eventual budget includes cuts to local government funding. Part of those cuts included the elimination of the chief animal warden position, which would save the city $97,000, as well as the city’s $50,000 payment to the Evanston Animal Shelter Association as part of the new staffing agreement. Three days later, City Council voted
unanimously to grant EASA funding to hire three part-time employees to manage the shelter and maintain its kennel for a total of $65,000 per year until the non-profit’s contract expires in May 2017. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the two lines of the potential reductions would have to be amended to reflect the council’s latest action. However, the city will still save some money because it contracted out all adoption and shelter maintenance work to EASA, leaving no city staff members working in the shelter, he said. Those savings — amounting to about $35,000 — would replace the two potential reductions released Friday, he added. During the year in which the city managed the shelter after the departure of the non-profit Community Animal Rescue Effort, there were two fulltime and one part-time city employees
working in both animal control and at the animal shelter: a chief animal warden, a deputy animal warden and a parttime position for kennel maintenance, Bobkiewicz said. Now that EASA is officially running and fundraising for the shelter, there will only be one animal warden working within the police department who is devoted to typical animal control duties, such as a storing dead animals found on the street. The city transferred all shelter responsibilities to the three part-time EASA employees, saving the city money on overhead costs such as benefits, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. Grover said it has been a long-term goal of the council to shift shelter management from the city to the volunteer animal organization that runs the shelter — now managed by EASA. » See SHELTER, page 5
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