[bfsa] Urgent Meeting of the B.F.S.A on 9-16-2005

[Tom N. Oder]

Dear all,

I came across some statistics that may be useful to those who will meet with
Dr. Sweet:
1. About 44% of residents in Youngstown are African-American.
2. 90.1 percent of YSU's employees are white, ranking fifth highest among
the state's 11 major, four-year
public universities. About 6% of employees are African American, ranking
seventh in the
state.[From http://www.ysu.edu/trustees/June2005.pdf]. As we all know, of
these, there is no dean/chair who is black.
3. From the above link, Sweet said the university will continue to make
efforts to increase the number of minority candidates in applicant pools. He
seems to be doing the converse in Midamba's case and other such cases
alluded to in the last meeting.

I am afraid I will not be able to attend the meeting due to doctor's
appointment.

Thanks,

Tom Oder

-----Original Message-----
From: bfsa-bounces at lists.ysu.edu [mailto:bfsa-bounces at lists.ysu.edu]On
Behalf Of Cameron Hughes
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:55 PM
To: BFSA
Subject: [bfsa] Urgent Meeting of the B.F.S.A on 9-16-2005




A major development took place earlier today in reference to our
petition on behalf
of Dr. Midamba.

Dr. Sweet has sent Dr. Wan-tatah  a letter agreeing to meet with a small
delegation  of us  early next week
to discuss the petition on behalf of Dr.Midamba further.

We would like as many of you as possible to attend an  urgent meeting
tomorrow 9/16/2005
in room 121-122 in Debartlo (outside of Dr. Wan-tatah's office)  at 4:30
p.m.


The purpose of this urgent meeting is to get your feedback on

exactly who should be in the delegation to Dr Sweet.  Also your
thoughts, ideas, creativity are needed

to help determine how much of agenda 1 (the particular) and agenda 2(
the general)

should be presented at the meeting with Dr. Sweet.


Everyone's participation, suggestions, and input are truly welcomed and
needed. If you can't be there and
you have ideas please get them to us so that they can be presented.  We
would like to take advantage of
the collective intelligence and wisdom that we have throughout our
group.  Steps we take in this upcoming meeting and the necessary future
meetings with Dr. Sweet will invariably have dramatic impact on us all.


See ya there.....


Cameron

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