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UA, AU seek diverse faculty By Taylor Holland Senior Staff Reporter tlholland1@crimson.ua.edu
“I go online and pull up organizations and call and actively approach the candidates to get them to apply to Auburn. I try to look at their names and their colleges, and sometimes I physically go to conferences and reach out to the candidates there. It can be a very tedious process.” — Carla Jackson Bell and Assessment during the fall 2009 semester. Carla Jackson Bell, director of Auburn University’s Multicultural Affairs, said the school also actively recruits minority faculty and staff members. “Actively, I do recruit in my college, the College of Architecture, Design and Construction,” Bell said. “I go online and pull up organizations and call and actively approach the candidates to get them to apply to Auburn. I try to look at their names and their colleges, and sometimes I physically go to conferences and reach out to the candidates there. It can be a very tedious process.” Bell said that, of the 1,300 students in Auburn’s
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architecture program, 26 are African-American women and 59 are African-American males. “The thing about it is, architecture is underrepresented as a whole,” she said. “There’s only a small group of people who want to come to a small town in Alabama and teach architecture, if you can go out and work in the industry and make a lot of money doing it. That’s the drawback. Architects usually want to go out and practice in the field. If they choose to become teachers, they won’t start out making a lot of money. It’s very hard to recruit, especially African-Americans, to certain fields.” Both Williams and Bell said they would continue actively pursuing minority professors at their respective universities.
the University.” Nonetheless, when Updyke admitted to the criminal act on the Paul Finebaum sports radio show, he ended his phone call with “Roll Damn Tide.” Drawing distinctions between fans who are alumni and non-alumni would be a fruitless effort, since the Crimson Tide fan base is of a heterogeneous mixture, said Charlie Ray, a 1992 alumnus of the University. “[Football] is absolute religion and it is very difficult to separate alumni fans from non-alumni fans in a state that is so focused on football and has a low percentage of residents who are college residents,” he said. In a state beleaguered by a high infant mortality rate, high unemployment, low college graduate rate and poor infrastructure, people — college educated or not — turn to football for a sense of triumph in their lives, Ray said. “People in this state don’t have a lot to cheer about or be proud of,” he said. “Football is absolutely something they can be proud of.”
Larry Mullins, owner of Mullins Restaurant in Huntsville, Ala., and a nonalumnus season-ticket holder, said he has purchased tickets to Alabama games for 20 years. A regular in Tuscaloosa during the football season, he said he watches the football team train on the practice field from his condominium on Hackberry Lane. “I’m ashamed of what the man did,” he said. “We’ve gone through some hard years, where after losing, we would have discussions of what took place, but we wouldn’t resort to something like this.” He said alumni and nonalumni fans alike comprise the Crimson Tide fan base and share an element of pride in common. “I’m beginning to wonder if the man ever went to a game, because if he did, he would know we have more pride than that,” he said. He said the incident has cast a disreputable image upon the University. “He’s put a black mark on the University,” he said. “[But] don’t let something like this drive a wedge between our two universities.”
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Both the University of Alabama and Auburn University are continuing to seek out more minority faculty members, according to highranking multicultural affairs officials at both schools. Currently, out of the 1,175 fulltime faculty members working at the University, 985 are white; 70 are African-American; 92 are Asian; and 25 are Hispanic, according to data obtained by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment during the Fall 2010 semester. Jimmy Williams, associate dean for multicultural affairs, said the University actively recruits minority faculty in many different ways each year. “For the past seven years, I have been involved in recruiting minority faculty by advertising our vacant faculty positions at the Compact Conference for Faculty Diversity and the McKnight Fellows Conference,” Williams said. “We post our vacant
positions on the Minority Faculty Applicant Database, on The Academic Network, Inc. We have also advertised our vacant faculty positions in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.” Williams continued, saying the school also provides search committees with the book “Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees,” and requires minority representation on all search committees when possible. According to the University’s diversity brochure, the University currently counts professors and instructors from 28 countries among its ranks. Williams said he does not feel underrepresented on campus because he works closely with many minority faculty members. In comparison, of Auburn University’s 1,184 faculty members, 970 of them are white; 52 are African-American; 123 are Asian; 31 are Hispanic; four are Native American; and four faculty members are listed as having unknown ethnicities, according to its most recent survey by the Office of Institutional Research
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