A new committee will help the Board of Trustees promote diversity and fix issues at Ball State University.
Provost Terry King announced the creation of the diversity committee at the trustees meeting Friday.
The university selected about 15 faculty to serve on the committee, which will be headed by Chin-Sook Pak, associate professor of Spanish, King said. A few students will serve on the committee, but the university has not appointed any yet, he said.
Pak could not be reached for comment.
Tony Proudfoot, associate vice president of marketing and communications, said the committee has four goals regarding diversity on campus: to review and recommend employment policies, to review complaints, to recommend ways to promote and maintain diverse faculty and to recommend ways to recruit and retain diverse students.
"This works really well with Ball State's strategic planning to promote diversity of faculty and students," Proudfoot said. "This duck tails what we're already doing."
King said the committee would not be responsible for gathering complaints, but it will collect and analyze data to create proposals for the Board of Trustees.
"Really, it's a communications tool," he said. "It'll deal with lots of nuts and bolts things. It's not intended to be like an ombudsperson."
Proudfoot said the university created the committee to comply with House Bill No. 1256, which the state legislature overwhelmingly passed during the 2007 legislative session.
Proudfoot said the committee was in no way created in response to the recent lawsuit between Ball State and former men's basketball coach Ronny Thompson.
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